High Pass Productions

09/04/2025

Celtic Flavour at the Garrison Night Market!

09/01/2025

Iris Lloyd opening for Festival on the Bend 2025

09/01/2025

Another great show at the Big Axe for Festival on the Bend 2025! What an incredible fireworks display, and some talented performers to boot.

08/17/2025

Had lots of fun working a show for The Martin Boys with the one and only Ray Dunham this weekend. Extremely talented musicians all around. Looking forward to doing it again!

08/07/2025

We're back!

Except for a few small items (and $250 in cash), everything that was stolen on June 1st has been returned to me by the Fredericton Police.

Apparently, they executed a search warrant at some drug dealer's place and stumbled upon a pile of audio equipment. One of the officers just happened to be the one who came to my workshop to dust for prints on the day of the break-in, so she immediately suspected the gear belonged to me.

The raid was, shockingly, completely unrelated to my file. It was just two coincidences lining up: that the drug dealer being raided happened to have my stuff, and one of the officers present happened to know about a bunch of stolen audio gear.

I cannot possibly overstate just how lucky I feel.

So, this is it. The end of the High Pass Productions theft saga. I am very excited to move on.

To those who donated: I will be issuing refunds within the next week or so. Thank you so much for your generosity. Your support means more than I can express.

Now, I do some more cleaning up, and return my workshop to its former glory of little plastic bins full of microphones, DI boxes, and other audio trinkets.

Send me a message if you'd like to help me make use of them!

07/29/2025

Just got off the phone with the Fredericton Police Department. They arrested the guy who broke into my workshop.

And they found my gear.

Or, at least, they found some of my gear. I sent over an itemized list and they'll be getting back to me later this week.

Once I get a full accounting of what's been recovered vs what's still outstanding, I'll post an update with details.

WE ARE SO BACK

07/27/2025

Thanks to Celtic Flavour for the excellent performance last night!

07/27/2025

Mixing for the incredible duo Daniel Robb and Martin Boucher this evening!

07/21/2025

A few days after my stuff was stolen, I had a chat with my family about what to do next.

We decided that letting the police do their job and try to track down the thief was the first step. Spending money replacing the stolen gear seemed like a waste of we could recover what was lost.

Unfortunately, it has been nearly two months with no progress. The police have identified the thief, but they tell me he is almost certainly homeless and a "person of substance", so to speak. They haven't even arrested him yet.

In short: I'm not getting my stuff back.

Some friends and family put together a Go Fund Me about a month ago, but I requested it be kept private until we heard back from the police about the state of the investigation.

I was planning on leaving it at that, but over the weekend I had the privilege of volunteering my time and equipment to help bring a small festival to life. The festival was a fundraising event to help a local musician who had been badly injured.

The experience made me realise that needing help isn't such a bad thing. So, at this point, with the recovery of my equipment having been essentially ruled out, I'm swallowing my pride and opening up the tip jar.

As always, I am immensely grateful to the music community here in New Brunswick for the support I've received over the past two months. I am asking once more for your support in sharing this campaign so that it reaches as many people as possible.

Thank you all so much. Don't forget that High Pass Productions is still open for business, so feel free to reach out if there's anything I can do to help your band, event, or venue succeed.

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07/19/2025

Come on down to Speedway 660 to support Steve Waylon's recovery!

06/02/2025

Early in the morning on June 1st 2025, my workshop was broken into.

Most of my microphones were taken, as well as a number of DI boxes, wireless systems, and other accessories. The thief broke in, filled my transport bags with equipment from the shelves, and left -- making multiple trips, no less.

The police have been given security footage which clearly shows the individuals face as well as a number of identifying marks. However, it is not likely that the stolen equipment will ever be returned, even if the thief is caught.

In total, $5,500 in equipment was stolen.

Unfortunately this is not a recoverable loss. High Pass Productions is closed indefinitely as of today.

I will be posting more details including photographs of the suspect and the police file number when they are made available to me, in case anyone has information that might lead to the arrest of the thief.

Thank you to everyone who has supported me and this business during my brief time working in Fredericton.

03/11/2025

The other half of our wired IEM system is the "extender".

When you need in-ear monitoring but don't have outputs from your mixer nearby, the extender unit allows you to run a stereo monitor mix over a single balanced cable.

The base unit is connected to the mixer or stage box with two cables, each carrying a balanced signal (left and right). A five-pin XLR cable can then be run from the base unit to the extender, carriying those two signals on a single cable. With five conductors, the signals remain balanced, which means even long cable runs have excellent noise rejection.

The extender takes these two balanced signals and unbalances them, just like the base unit, ans sends this unbalanced stereo signal over a simple microphone cable to the performer's beltpack.

Half the number of cables, but all the benefits of balanced signals and a tiny footprint on stage.