http://thehipcola.com sound design in mind Mon, 18 Jan 2010 16:12:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://thehipcola.com/recording-horns/2010/01/18/ 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 ... http://thehipcola.com/soundtrack-the-progress-report/2009/11/11/ 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 ... http://thehipcola.com/firefox-gmail-troubles-solved/2009/09/29/ 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 ... http://thehipcola.com/soundtrack-pr-and-web-plan-stuff/2009/08/27/ 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.   ... http://thehipcola.com/record-bouncing-audio/2009/08/21/ 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 ... http://thehipcola.com/soundtrack-nearing-completion/2009/08/20/ 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 ... http://thehipcola.com/propellerhead-record-2/2009/08/15/ 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 ... http://thehipcola.com/ikmulitimedia-groovemaker-thats-it/2009/08/14/ 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 ... http://thehipcola.com/cubase-5-evaluation/2009/08/08/ 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 ... http://thehipcola.com/cubase-beta-testing-begins/2009/08/08/