User:Binksternet
| Michael 'Bink' Knowles | |
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Bink at work in May 2013. The digital mixer is a Midas Pro 2. On the microphones at the Khosla Ventures event were Bill Gates in a "fireside chat", mentalist Lior Suchard who asked Tony Blair some questions, and beatboxer Beardyman who rocked.
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| Born |
Michael Robert Knowles June 8, 1961 San Bernardino, California |
| Residence | Oakland, California |
| Other names | |
| Alma mater | University of California, San Diego |
| Occupation | Audio engineer |
| Known for | Bink Audio Test CD GEQ Shootout Fixing hoaxes |
| Home town |
Rialto, California Irvine, California |
| Children | 2 |
My first home was in Rialto, California; a breezy city swept by clean desert air coming through Cajon Pass. The little city started as orange groves but in the 1960s it was fast changing to tracts of homes. I was raised in a family of six singers and musicians. All the members of the Knowles family were involved in and light opera productions in the Inland Empire. Some unusual people came through our house: Turbaned Korla Pandit played for a living room full of guests, and left long, curving scratches on the Steinway piano because of his oversized rings. People tried ESP experiments, and a medium read the auras of us children. An early version of The Ungame was tested on us.
I was an active child except when I was reading books, which was often. I read the family's World Book Encyclopedia, and I probably annoyed people by quoting facts from it. I learned to sing in harmony with others and as a soloist, and I played clarinet. In 1975, my mother moved us four children to Irvine, California; I was in the first class of students at Irvine High School. I earned a National Merit Scholarship Program grant for college.
At the University of California, San Diego, I began as a biology major but soon swapped major and minor to focus on music. I learned about the physics of sound waves, the characteristics of music perception and psychoacoustics, and about the new field of digital audio. During college, I married my high school sweetheart. The rocky marriage produced a son and a daughter but lasted only four years.
After college, I obtained work with AT&T in San Francisco, training on old 1A2 business telephone systems which were being replaced by digital phones. In the aftermath of the breakup of the Bell System, I was suddenly in demand as a telephone technician for various independent phone companies all around the San Francisco Bay Area. I honed my electronics knowledge as well as my trouble-shooting skills.
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