Steve Supparits
Chief Engineer
Steve has been working in the Live Entertainment industry for over 30 years. Getting his start at Melody Fair in the 1980’s, Steve learned Live Audio Engineering and studied Audio Engineering in college. Steve has done Production and Live Sound for thousands of National Recording Artists. Yes, that sounds like a lot, but averaging 150 shows per year for 30+ years puts Steve at over 5000 live performances since he started mixing in 1987. Along with Melody Fair In the 1990's, he ran the Concert Department at Indigo Productions where he designed concert systems and trained audio engineers, as well as continuing to do sound for local, regional, and national artists, including everyone from Wayne Newton, Don Rickles, and Bill Cosby, to Martina McBride, Joe Walsh, Jack Wagner, Ray Charles, and Lynyrd Skynyrd just to name a few.
Steve went to sea in 1997-1998 as the Head Sound and Light Technician for Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines, where he was responsible for helping the cruise line enhance the sound and lighting systems throughout their fleet, as well as operating the sound system in the main venue of the fleet’s flagship “The Rhapsody of the Seas”. Steve continued to mix live shows for National Recording Artists, and started doing Live and Studio recordings for them as well.
After leaving Royal Caribbean (even though he was offered a great career there) Steve started touring Nationally and went on the road as Tour Manager and FOH Audio Engineer for Peter Noone and Herman’s Hermits, and has toured extensively for years, including International Artists like Carl Palmer, Tommy DeCarlo – the singer of Boston, the Gypsy Kings, and Antonio Sanchez.
In between tours, Steve also started Resurrection Studios, and Steve became the Audio Engineer for the Ramblin’ Lou Family Band (a position he’s done with the R.L. family for over 20 years). Steve continued to do studio and Live Recordings, as well as Mastering, for National, Regional, and Local Artists, including Clint Holmes, Frankie Avalon (Sr, and Jr.), Ramblin’ Lou Schriver, Kenny Hawkins, Glenn Jones, Allen Toussaint, the Stone City Band, Kathy Carr, George Puleo, Sam Noto, Forewarned, Carl Palmer, and hundreds more. Steve has at one time or another, worked with just about every musician in WNY.
Steve got married in 2003 and decided to stop touring and stay in WNY to raise a family. Besides a flourishing studio, he was also a Lead Audio Engineer at the Seneca Casinos from 2008-2014, where Steve continued to do sound and production for hundreds of National Artists, including Styx, the Scintas, Cheap Trick, Dennis DeYoung, Don Felder, Howie Mandel, Stevie Nicks, Diamond Rio, MeatLoaf, Kenny Rogers, and many more.
Steve helped the Senecas become the first casino in NY to institute digital mixing and control of a sound board from an iPad, enabling the engineer to walk around the house while mixing the band, keeping the typical sound board hidden backstage. Steve has also been a freelance engineer used routinely by Indigo Productions, Advanced Production Group and Audio Images, three of the largest Concert System providers in the Northeast.
Through Resurrection Studios, Steve has done installations and production for the African-American Cultural Center, The Tralf Music Hall, Home City Church, Mooney’s/Braun’s Concert Cove, The Showplace Theater, the Buffalo Funk Fest at LaSalle Park, and more, working with artists like Scott Stapp, Buckcherry, Molly Hatchet, LA Sky and the Rick James Stone City Band, The Temptations, The Whispers, and more.
At the Tralf Music Hall, Resurrection Studios has done full production since 2014, including Sound, Lighting, and Video Projection, as well as Multi-camera HD Video shoots and editing, and in 2014, Steve implemented full digital mixing, with FOH and monitors being mixed off of an iPad that controls the sound board, and every zone in the venue. At the Tralf, an idea between Steve and Tom Barone to mix bands in 7.1 Surround Sound became a reality. Steve designed, installed and continues to operate the first concert venue in North America with actual 7.1 Surround mixing of Live events and concerts (This is not a processor that simulates a surround mix. There are controllable aux sends going to every speaker in the 7.1 system and the engineer can decide what instruments and vocals go anywhere in the mix that they want. We don’t know of any others in any country!). National and regional touring acts have been raving about the production quality they experience at the Tralf Music Hall, and have not found a comparable venue in the U.S.
Now that Steve’s kids are grown, he resumed touring in 2019 and went on the road with The Gypsy Kings, Antonio Sanchez, and spent the next 4 years doing multiple tours with Carl Palmer’s ELP Legacy. Steve spent most of 2022 touring with the singer of Boston – Tommy DeCarlo, as his FOH Engineer and Production Manager, while helping to produce and launch the highly successful tour, The Return of Emerson, Lake and Palmer in November of 2022. This was a tour that Carl Palmer and Steve had been working on since 2020, but had gotten delayed by the Covid-19 Pandemic.
In addition to FOH Audio, Steve is the Production Manager, and he supplies the tour with three giant video walls, and an HD video crew, where he uses video of Keith Emerson and Greg Lake from a performance in the 1990’s on the walls, linked to a multitrack recording on his laptop, and he mixes the audio from Keith, Greg and their instruments into his soundboard on individual channels, along with the live inputs from Carl Palmer and the band on stage. This has never been done before for an entire performance. The tour is off to a resounding success with raves about the technical quality of the show! Steve will be out in 2023 and 2024 taking The Return of Emerson, Lake, and Palmer around the world.
Steve also continues to do Live audio mixing, as well as HD video camera shoots, with full multitrack recording of audio, including Studio remixing and Mastering of concerts and CD recordings, Studio audio projects, and outside video shoots for Artists and Corporate clients alike. In 2023, Steve will be producing the Live Blu-ray of The Return of Emerson, Lake and Palmer for commercial release. Through all of his work, Steve has become a staple in the industry for musicians in Buffalo and Western New York, and it’s rare to find a musician in Buffalo that doesn’t know him.
When asked about his work, Steve said “It’s funny, because for a Live Audio Engineer, your body of work disappears the moment the show ends. The people that appreciate what you do the most are the musicians whose sound and performance you help to elevate, and audience members that know something about how the production works. Thank God that portable digital recording became available in the 1990’s. Even though a lot of artists refuse to be recorded live, there are many who now appreciate having their shows cataloged and later released as live compilations, allowing guys like me to have some of our work stored for our own legacy. In 2014 I gave a multi-track feed to Carl Palmer, and out of all of his shows on that tour, he chose to release his entire "ELP Legacy" CD from our singular show at the Tralf! I still have the stereo board mix of the show for my own enjoyment :)"
Chief Engineer
Steve has been working in the Live Entertainment industry for over 30 years. Getting his start at Melody Fair in the 1980’s, Steve learned Live Audio Engineering and studied Audio Engineering in college. Steve has done Production and Live Sound for thousands of National Recording Artists. Yes, that sounds like a lot, but averaging 150 shows per year for 30+ years puts Steve at over 5000 live performances since he started mixing in 1987. Along with Melody Fair In the 1990's, he ran the Concert Department at Indigo Productions where he designed concert systems and trained audio engineers, as well as continuing to do sound for local, regional, and national artists, including everyone from Wayne Newton, Don Rickles, and Bill Cosby, to Martina McBride, Joe Walsh, Jack Wagner, Ray Charles, and Lynyrd Skynyrd just to name a few.
Steve went to sea in 1997-1998 as the Head Sound and Light Technician for Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines, where he was responsible for helping the cruise line enhance the sound and lighting systems throughout their fleet, as well as operating the sound system in the main venue of the fleet’s flagship “The Rhapsody of the Seas”. Steve continued to mix live shows for National Recording Artists, and started doing Live and Studio recordings for them as well.
After leaving Royal Caribbean (even though he was offered a great career there) Steve started touring Nationally and went on the road as Tour Manager and FOH Audio Engineer for Peter Noone and Herman’s Hermits, and has toured extensively for years, including International Artists like Carl Palmer, Tommy DeCarlo – the singer of Boston, the Gypsy Kings, and Antonio Sanchez.
In between tours, Steve also started Resurrection Studios, and Steve became the Audio Engineer for the Ramblin’ Lou Family Band (a position he’s done with the R.L. family for over 20 years). Steve continued to do studio and Live Recordings, as well as Mastering, for National, Regional, and Local Artists, including Clint Holmes, Frankie Avalon (Sr, and Jr.), Ramblin’ Lou Schriver, Kenny Hawkins, Glenn Jones, Allen Toussaint, the Stone City Band, Kathy Carr, George Puleo, Sam Noto, Forewarned, Carl Palmer, and hundreds more. Steve has at one time or another, worked with just about every musician in WNY.
Steve got married in 2003 and decided to stop touring and stay in WNY to raise a family. Besides a flourishing studio, he was also a Lead Audio Engineer at the Seneca Casinos from 2008-2014, where Steve continued to do sound and production for hundreds of National Artists, including Styx, the Scintas, Cheap Trick, Dennis DeYoung, Don Felder, Howie Mandel, Stevie Nicks, Diamond Rio, MeatLoaf, Kenny Rogers, and many more.
Steve helped the Senecas become the first casino in NY to institute digital mixing and control of a sound board from an iPad, enabling the engineer to walk around the house while mixing the band, keeping the typical sound board hidden backstage. Steve has also been a freelance engineer used routinely by Indigo Productions, Advanced Production Group and Audio Images, three of the largest Concert System providers in the Northeast.
Through Resurrection Studios, Steve has done installations and production for the African-American Cultural Center, The Tralf Music Hall, Home City Church, Mooney’s/Braun’s Concert Cove, The Showplace Theater, the Buffalo Funk Fest at LaSalle Park, and more, working with artists like Scott Stapp, Buckcherry, Molly Hatchet, LA Sky and the Rick James Stone City Band, The Temptations, The Whispers, and more.
At the Tralf Music Hall, Resurrection Studios has done full production since 2014, including Sound, Lighting, and Video Projection, as well as Multi-camera HD Video shoots and editing, and in 2014, Steve implemented full digital mixing, with FOH and monitors being mixed off of an iPad that controls the sound board, and every zone in the venue. At the Tralf, an idea between Steve and Tom Barone to mix bands in 7.1 Surround Sound became a reality. Steve designed, installed and continues to operate the first concert venue in North America with actual 7.1 Surround mixing of Live events and concerts (This is not a processor that simulates a surround mix. There are controllable aux sends going to every speaker in the 7.1 system and the engineer can decide what instruments and vocals go anywhere in the mix that they want. We don’t know of any others in any country!). National and regional touring acts have been raving about the production quality they experience at the Tralf Music Hall, and have not found a comparable venue in the U.S.
Now that Steve’s kids are grown, he resumed touring in 2019 and went on the road with The Gypsy Kings, Antonio Sanchez, and spent the next 4 years doing multiple tours with Carl Palmer’s ELP Legacy. Steve spent most of 2022 touring with the singer of Boston – Tommy DeCarlo, as his FOH Engineer and Production Manager, while helping to produce and launch the highly successful tour, The Return of Emerson, Lake and Palmer in November of 2022. This was a tour that Carl Palmer and Steve had been working on since 2020, but had gotten delayed by the Covid-19 Pandemic.
In addition to FOH Audio, Steve is the Production Manager, and he supplies the tour with three giant video walls, and an HD video crew, where he uses video of Keith Emerson and Greg Lake from a performance in the 1990’s on the walls, linked to a multitrack recording on his laptop, and he mixes the audio from Keith, Greg and their instruments into his soundboard on individual channels, along with the live inputs from Carl Palmer and the band on stage. This has never been done before for an entire performance. The tour is off to a resounding success with raves about the technical quality of the show! Steve will be out in 2023 and 2024 taking The Return of Emerson, Lake, and Palmer around the world.
Steve also continues to do Live audio mixing, as well as HD video camera shoots, with full multitrack recording of audio, including Studio remixing and Mastering of concerts and CD recordings, Studio audio projects, and outside video shoots for Artists and Corporate clients alike. In 2023, Steve will be producing the Live Blu-ray of The Return of Emerson, Lake and Palmer for commercial release. Through all of his work, Steve has become a staple in the industry for musicians in Buffalo and Western New York, and it’s rare to find a musician in Buffalo that doesn’t know him.
When asked about his work, Steve said “It’s funny, because for a Live Audio Engineer, your body of work disappears the moment the show ends. The people that appreciate what you do the most are the musicians whose sound and performance you help to elevate, and audience members that know something about how the production works. Thank God that portable digital recording became available in the 1990’s. Even though a lot of artists refuse to be recorded live, there are many who now appreciate having their shows cataloged and later released as live compilations, allowing guys like me to have some of our work stored for our own legacy. In 2014 I gave a multi-track feed to Carl Palmer, and out of all of his shows on that tour, he chose to release his entire "ELP Legacy" CD from our singular show at the Tralf! I still have the stereo board mix of the show for my own enjoyment :)"
Give us a call at 716-604-7668, and Steve will be happy to assist you with your next project. It doesn't matter whether it's a concert, corporate or school function, a video project, or studio recording and mastering. Steve excels in these areas and loves helping people get the best final product that they can.
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Here's just a few of the stages that our engineers have mixed on in 2022 alone :)