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University of California, Berkeley.
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Charlie Richmond
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Richmond incorporated Richmond Sound Design (RSD) in 1972, the first company to produce an off-the-shelf theatre sound design console (the Model 816) in 1973. Richmond was the first United States Institute for Theatre Technology (USITT) Sound Design Commissioner, serving from 1980 through 1988 and on the USITT Board of Directors from 1989 through 1991. He was the sound design editor for USITT"s quarterly publication, Theatre Design & Technology, in the late 1980s, and its show control editor in the early 1990s.
Richmond headed the USITT MIDI Forum on their Callboard Network in 1990, which created the MIDI Show Control (Mediterranean Shipping Company) standard in 1990.
The USITT inducted Richmond as a Fellow of the Institute in 1995 and presented him with a Harold Burris-Meyer Distinguished Career in Sound Award for his work in that field and the show control field in 2000.
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Richmond incorporated Richmond Sound Design (RSD) in 1972, the first company to produce an off-the-shelf theatre sound design console (the Model 816) in 1973. In 1975, Richmond wrote an engineering brief for the Audio Engineering Society, entitled "A Practical Theatrical Sound Console", about a solution for mixing more than 100 inputs for a theatrical production. RSD produced the first off-the-shelf computerized modular theatre sound design control system (Command/Cue) in 1985. He received a United States Patent for his invention, the "Automatic Cross-fading Circuit" which was trademarked Auto-Pan on February 25, 1975. Richmond designed and produced a show control tool called the AudioBox, intended for complex show control functions for interfacing a wide variety of theatrical equipment such as intelligent lighting. The AudioBox won a Thea Award in 2000, given by the Themed Entertainment Association.
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