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Recording Horns
Today I had the pleasure of tracking a 3 person horn section with trombone, alto sax and trumpet/flugel horn. It was amazing!
I spent a fair bit of time researching mic placement for close and room mic positions, and specifically for each type of horn. There’s a boat-load of great resource material online, so I’ll just [...]
SOUNDTRACK – The Progress Report
Things are definitely heating up in SOUNDTRACK HQ. I’ve been super-busy testing out website features, getting my head wrapped around making same work properly (or at all!), generating the background mythos that hopefully will tie the release to the website a little tighter-ish and things of that nature. I finally found a decent embedded audio [...]
Firefox - Gmail Troubles Solved!
I’m posting this only on the off-chance that someone else out there is having similar trouble to what I’ve been experiencing for about a month with Firefox and Gmail.
Basically, one day things were fine, and the next I found myself unable to compose messages in Gmail without loading the most basic, stripped down html version [...]
SOUNDTRACK - PR and Web Plan Stuff
Awesome things are afoot with the soon-to-be-released SOUNDTRACK album. Last week I met with Pam who’s specialty as a publicist/PR/Social Media may be able to help get the word out, dragging eyeballs and ears to the SOUNDTRACK world, and last night I supped with Brad and discussed the cool things we have planned for the SOUNDTRACK [...]
RECORD - Bouncing Audio
I’ve been working on some commissioned dance music for a workout DVD using Propellerhead’s RECORD for the last week. I decided this morning it’s time to move over to Cubase 5 so I can go deep into editing land as well as to use some vsti’s I’ve got kicking around. So I tried the Bounce [...]
SOUNDTRACK - nearing completion!
soundtrack album release
Things are heating up pretty nicely here in SOUNDTRACK central. The album’s music piece is complete. The artwork is 97% complete, and with my new laptop in play it is only a matter of days before it’s all done as well. I’ve sourced out what seems to be the best possible deal for short-run [...]
Propellerhead RECORD
Just on my way back from Montreal where I attended Propellerhead’s Producer Conference. There were a number of keynote speakers from a variety of backgrounds, but the raison d’être for the whole shin-dig was to demonstrate Record’s capabilities to the world.
I wasn’t disappointed at all! As soon as I sat down, amongst some idle [...]
IKMulitimedia GROOV.EMAKER – That’s it?
Here I’ve been sort of excited by the hypey teasers from IKMultimedia for this REVOLUTIONARY product that has just been announced….
(fizzle)
The marketing was fabulous..but the product offering is so limited, it’s really kind of silly in hind-sight. Despite the iPhone’s popularity, it seems kind of a waste to have all those teasers that make [...]
Cubase 5 Evaluation
After spending a few hours working up a song idea in Cubase, I’m really pleased with the workflow improvements, and of course have a few concerns over some other changes. I’ll detail them later on, but I think this is pretty great improvement overall. Cubase has become a serious production workstation rather than a tool [...]
Cubase Beta Testing Begins!
After a critical system meltdown (laptop), my new Lenovo W500 arrived for the second time working as it should! This means I’m now able to start beta testing release candidates for Cubase 5! I’ve got myself a fancy 6 month license, and it’s now installed and running pretty smoothly on the laptop. Obviously there’s lots [...]