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Wednesday, March 12th, 2008Take a look at this screenshot from the Digidesign website. See anything unusual? (click to view full size)
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Archive for March, 2008
Audiogeek-O-saurus.REX!
Monday, March 10th, 2008Alright… Since the the release of AGZ’s “Toys Breaking” Sample set I have noticed a gaggle of folks requesting organized REX file versions of some of the samples. Knowing Jon, like me has little time to spend on such things… especially for the $5.00 he asks for the set I figured I would give a easy to follow 4 step guide to using Propellerheads Recycle 2.1 to create your own REX files from the samples you find most deserving of the transformation. I swear its really easy!
Week in review
Sunday, March 9th, 2008Nine Inch Nails released Ghosts I-IV. That didn’t get much press did it?
I got speaker stands. HUGE improvement on my mixing situation. My cheap monitors sound completely different. Tighter bass, way better stereo imaging, and I feel better equipped to work now. I didn’t think it would make this much of a difference. Acoustic panels are being made and installed tomorrow hopefully. I’ll post pictures when I do.
The Scarsbrook album I’ve been working on for nearly a year is very close to completion. Jason is doing final overdubs at home while I do drum edits and prepare for mixing.
I bought the book The Frustrated Songwriter’s Handbook by Karl Coryat & Nicholas Dobson. It’s an incredibly inspirational method of songwriting, the Immersion Music Method. You give yourself 12 hours to write 20 completely new songs. There’s a podcast interview with the authors here. @BlogCritics.
It outlines a radical new system – Immersion Music Method – designed to help you smash through creative block, become recklessly prolific, and make quantum leaps in your musical and compositional skills.
I highly recommend the book to anyone with creative block or find songwriting difficult. After you’ve read it feel free to challenge me to a duel.
I’ll be posting the results of each 12-hour songwriting session on my other site.
Some NIN gear porn
Monday, March 3rd, 2008From the 40 page .pdf included with Ghosts I-IV. Fantastic pictures from Trent’s studio of the recording process. Am I jealous? Hell yeah! Click to embiggun them.
If you haven’t bought the album yet, what are you waiting for!
Nine Inch Nails Ghosts I-IV More details
Monday, March 3rd, 2008In my haste to post before anyone else did, I forgot to mention the ways you can purchase the album and what it includes.
This music arrived unexpectedly as the result of an experiment. The rules were as follows: 10 weeks, no clear agenda, no overthinking, everything driven by impulse. Whatever happens during that time gets released as… something.
The team: Atticus Ross, Alan Moulder and myself with some help from Alessandro Cortini, Adrian Belew and Brian Viglione. Rob Sheridan collaborated with Artist in Residence (A+R) to create the accompanying visual and physical aesthetic.
We began improvising and let the music decide the direction. Eyes were closed, hands played instruments and it began. Within a matter of days it became clear we were on to something, and a lot of material began appearing. What we thought could be a five song EP became much more. I invited some friends over to join in and we all enjoyed the process of collaborating on this.
The end result is a wildly varied body of music that we’re able to present to the world in ways the confines of a major record label would never have allowed – from a 100% DRM-free, high-quality download, to the most luxurious physical package we’ve ever created.
More volumes of Ghosts are likely to appear in the future.
- Trent Reznor, March 2, 2008
Nine Inch Nails Ghosts I-IV New album!
Sunday, March 2nd, 2008After a series of very vague blog posts from Trent:
“Soon”
“Tick tock…tick tock…”
“2 hours”
The new album has been released (minutes ago). Titles Ghosts I-IV.
Nine Inch Nails presents Ghosts I – IV, a brand new 36 track instrumental collection available right now. Almost two hours of new music composed and recorded over an intense ten week period last fall, Ghosts I – IV sprawls Nine Inch Nails across a variety of new terrain.
Trent Reznor explains, “I’ve been considering and wanting to make this kind of record for years, but by its very nature it wouldn’t have made sense until this point. This collection of music is the result of working from a very visual perspective – dressing imagined locations and scenarios with sound and texture; a soundtrack for daydreams. I’m very pleased with the result and the ability to present it directly to you without interference. I hope you enjoy the first four volumes of Ghosts.”
You can listen to some online, and you can download the first 9 tracks in 320 kbps 100%DRM-Free Mp3.
