Kyle (Drumah) Sorenson
Owner/Operator
Phone:
218-766-3908
Email:
Address:
Bemidji, MN
Date of Birth:
August 28th, 1991
About Me
Working full time in the AV industry for the last 11 years, I have worked in many unique places and come to meet many interesting artists over the years. Being a musician myself I quickly established a connection to each and every one of them. As their live sound engineer/technician it was my job to not just understand their music but be an extension of it. I take this same mentality into the studio when I help produce an artists new musical idea. Music is a feeling, and it is meant to be done through expression not just through the artist but also through the engineer.
My Roots
Fall of 2012-2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
January 2019
August 2019
August 2020
2020 to Present
2022
January 2023
September 2023
October 2023
January 2024
Fall of 2012 I took a job with a company out of Bemidji, MN known as NLFX Professional as a install technician. My first day was off to the races with a plane ticket to El Paso TX for roughly a month. During that month I quickly discovered that I would be taking over the position of Lead technician after finding out my predecessor was moving onto another job in little less than a month. This meant I needed to step up and fill those shoes and boy at the time those felt like big shoes to fill. That first year was full of struggle and strife. Most of my days and evenings were in the product manuals, with tools and equipment in hand testing, learning and understanding what was in front of me. My mind was like a sponge and it quickly started to sink in. My confidence grew vastly by the end of 2013.
2014 rolled around, now that I was confident in my role I started to establish myself as a reputable technician as well as a audio engineer. I set my sites on not just being a good technician but being a good programmer and project manager.
I slowly started accumulating equipment to start recording. By the end of 2015 I had fully invested and launched Unearth Records.
NLFX launched a full live production division and my colleague and I were the main technicians to assemble and commission that rig on its maiden voyage with ZZ-Top as the first artist to use it. Coming in the next years, we now had to be install technicians as well as tour sound technicians. And when needed sound engineers for front of house or monitors.
I had ran Unearth Records for roughly two years and help produce a number of projects but the problem was I couldn’t be fully invested in it with my time and resources due to continually traveling with NLFX. It was hard to be reliable to artists due to having a schedule that was variant.
By the end of the year, I had slowly shut down the studio. I didn’t want to shut it down but the lack of time and space made it inevitable. So I continued to put all my efforts into my career with NLFX. Through the years, The jobs got bigger and more involved and my skill set continued to attract attention in the Industry. I began to have customers request me as a programmer on projects. I officially did work in roughly 30 states over the years. Projects for the Government, churches, restaurants, bowling alleys, live venues, stadiums, conferencing spaces and much more.
January 25th 2019, 7:25pm at El Loro Mexican Restaurant in Detroit lakes, MN- I met the love of my life Michele. I asked her to marry me on March 25th in the beautiful gardens of the Como Park Conservatory, St. Paul, MN. During 2019 I sold much of the studio equipment to help purchase our engagement and wedding rings as well as fund some of our wedding. We got married August 17th at Bemidji State Park in the log cabin shelter on shore of Lake Bemidji.
I had a job opportunity come to my table that would allow me to get off the road, settle down and start a life with Michele. This job kept me in the AV industry but instead of being a technician/programmer I would just be a programmer and work from home. Sept 1st I took the job and became the first employee of CS Consulting. Just like the first day with NLFX back in 2012 I started out with a bang and took lead on a programming project for the Battery stadium in Atlanta, Georgia. The completed success of that project officially earned me a seat at the big boys table.
August 14th 2020 Michele and I were blessed with a little boy Leighn. He quickly has become interested in music and audio, we love watching him grow in his likes and dislikes as well as his musicality. There isn’t a day that goes by he doesn’t want to sit at the piano and plink out a tune or at the drums and tap (more like smack) out a rhythm. He never hesitates to want to be held in front of the microphone and pretend he’s a singer. We are proud of him and excited for him to have the studio and it to be his place to express himself.
CS Consulting continues to establish its roots into the industry as the go to company for advanced technical services, system design and programming. To this day with CS Consulting I’m called to design, consult, and/or program AV systems across the country. I grew from just being a programmer to being a AV integrated systems engineer holding many industry certifications.
I rebuilt the studio from the ground up. Focusing not on just having flashy equipment but the core foundation on what makes a studio successful: Connections, reputation, experience, and the understanding the physical properties of the room in which you listen and the room in which you record in.
Unearth Records officially reopened.
September 10th Michele and I were blessed with our second child, a little baby girl. Her name is Ellene Deia Sorenson.
After 2 years of work on and off, I finally finished the acoustical diffusion in the studio. cutting 10,218 1" x 1" x "x" long blocks was a huge task but it was definitely worth it. I went thru 36- 3/4" 4x8 sheets of MDF, 8 Gallons of wood glue, 10 Gallons of paint. for a total cost of $42 a SQFT just in materials. If I was to ball park my labor on this in hours I believe it was around 610hrs.
Construction begins on ISO Room #1
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