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Archive for April, 2010
Friday, April 30th, 2010
#FF I don’t think I’ll ever understand how I have nearly 1400 twitter followers and they people I find interesting, the guys that deserve those followers have so few. I’m going to make a small effort to show some recognition to the uh…less popular of my twitter friends.
Seriously, follow these people. They’re much more interesting than I am.
- Create Music Tips – Daily tips about creating music: recording, songwriting, performance. I also post links to other helpful tips/tutorials/resources
- The DSP Project -Music production TV [Great video podcast]
- Joe Gilder – Songwriter, musician, recording engineer with a blog for home recording studio owners.
- Bobby Owsinski – Producer – author – music and technology consultant [he wrote your rescording school textbooks!] His blog: http://bobbyowsinsi.blogspot.com/
- Chuck Russom – Freelance Sound Designer. Credits include God of War, Call of Duty, Medal of Honor, and others
- Nick Meade – I like making noise. [another sound designer] his site: http://www.nickmeade.com/
- Recording Hacks – drummer, home studio owner, collector of microphones, builder of the best microphone website in the world.
- Home Rec Library – Collecting information for a new resource for home recording enthusiasts everywhere.
- Ronan Chris Murphy – LA based Record producer mixer [also host of the fantastic Ronan's Recording Show]
- Randy Coppinger – I like to record with microphones. I like to drink coffee. On a good day, I get to do both.
- Sonic Valentine – Pro-audio website, stupid videos, articles, and non-sense by Ben Strano.
- SlauBeSharp – Owner of BeSharp Studios and host of Sessions With Slau podcast tweeting about goings on at a recording studio and general nonsense.
- Groove 3 Inc. – Exceptional training videos about your studio tools. Learn Pro Tools, Logic, Live, Reason, Recording, Mixing, Effects, Plug-Ins and more today!
- Diego Stocco – I love to create sounds and music with experimental techniques and custom built instruments. [Insane composer, sound designer, instrument creator]
- Sean Y – aka Key Of Grey – Check out his blog for daily music production articles.
- PTDudes.com – Pro Tools Tips, Tricks, and Shortcuts Blog here: http://www.ptdudes.com/
There are more but the list is getting long. I may add to the list at a later date.
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Thursday, April 29th, 2010
Apologies to the nice folks at Antares, but this made me laugh quite a lot.
VIA: Very Demotivational
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Wednesday, April 28th, 2010
Joe at Home Studio Corner is doing another round of the HSC production club.
What’s great about his course is that it bridges the gap between learning completely on your own and going to an expensive audio engineering school. A great way to quickly overcome a lot of the hurdles of learning music production and audio engineering with a focus on the home studio environment and recording your own music.
More info and Registration HERE
Briefly, HSC Production club is:
- 12 week course
- HD Video tutorials
- 1 on 1 coaching
- Private forum
- Audio files to download
Topics covered in detail:
- Pre-Production
- Recording audio and MIDI
- Editing
- Mixing
- Mastering
The price is $99 every 3 months.
More info and Registration HERE
Note: Those are affiliate links.
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Wednesday, April 28th, 2010
It’s been a while since I’ve come across a nice cross-platform FREE plugin so when I heard about this today I knew I had to spread the word. Elysia makes some very cool hardware & software so getting just a taste of that for free is fantastic.
Niveau filter is a balance control over bass and treble. Simple layout and operation with only a few controls. VST, RTAS, AU – Mac, PC
Here’s what Elysia have to say about the Niveau filter:
Get the niveau filter section of our famous mpressor plugin – it’s free! Add punch to muffled snares, reduce the harshness from active pickups, create some wonderful Dub and LoFi sounds… there are so many ways to benefit from this little tool. It’s fast, efficient, and most important: it sounds great!
This filter is a specialist in changing the overall sonic character of a signal with ease. It features two comprehensive controllers and is capable of producing convincing results in no time at all. Whenever a classic shelving filter would be too limited and a fully parametric filter would be too much, the niveau filter is the perfect tool.
Its main function is to change the proportions between high and low frequencies. The principle is quite similar to a pair of scales: Dependent on the gain setting around a variable center frequency, the high frequencies are boosted whereas the low frequencies are attenuated (or vice versa) at the same time.
The center frequency can be shifted continuously between 26 Hz and 2.2 kHz or between 260 Hz and 22 kHz respectively (when the x10 switch is activated). The characteristics of the filter change in the extreme positions of the EQ Gain controller: the fully counter-clockwise setting will give you a low pass filter; fully clockwise position will result in a high pass filter.
Get it here: http://www.elysia.com/software/niveau-filter/
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Monday, April 26th, 2010
A week of Twitter activity from @theAudioGeek
- Just when I start to <3 elastic audio again I hear “the change” and my evening is ruined and I’m back to manual chopping.
- for example: first raw tracks, then slight adjustment with obvious artifacts. http://trunc.it/7hl4m
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This session got to 40 tracks pretty quick, not even close to done yet.
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@rodger_brennan halucinations start around hour 16 of soldering, much faster when combined with circuitbending. [in response to:Is rosin core solder hallucinogenic?]
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Session done. He brought pizza. Also I’m good at hip-hop.
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@strangenotez LOL I don’t know. Being fast with PT. Not leaving while the rapper is in the booth. Paying attention. Engineering knowledge. [in response to:
@theaudiogeek what makes for a good hip hop engineer in your opinion?]
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session a no show…so far.
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Grilled cheese sandwiches FTMFW!!
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Editing the newest podcast and man that energy drink burnout I had last night is really obvious.
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@shadowhills was the case handcuffed to a guy in a suit? [in response to: Secret Prototype arrived this morning. Kind of disappointed it wasn't in a fancier case.]
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@theaudiogeek it should have been. The fedex guy did peel into the lot backwards and block the road to drop it off. That’ll do.
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Toronto Home Recording Meetup – http://www.meetup.com/Toronto-Home-Recording/calendar/13230845/ May 6th
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After tracking drums at a studio it’s gonna be tough to do it again in home studios.
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having a spare U87 to use as a room mic is the kind of luxury that I don’t want to be without
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Doing some more editing for The Empire Shall Fall today. Love working for those guys. http://www.myspace.com/theempireshallfall
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Thursday, April 22nd, 2010
I’m among the many frustrated Pro Tools users that is spending more and more time with REAPER these days. It doesn’t have all the features I need yet but is growing at an astounding rate, a new update is released every 2-3 weeks, a nice change from waiting months for similar updates from AVID. These updates aren’t just bug fixes, they’re new features, options and workflow improvements suggested by the user community.
Learning a new DAW, especially one so customizable as REAPER is not something easily accomplished in a weekend. Here’s a list of some resources to help you and I learn REAPER:
REAPER User Guide – Official user manual, regularly updated to reflect new changes
REAPER Wiki – user contributed Wiki for REAPER
REAPER Blog – News, tips and tricks
SWS Manual – SWS are some very useful extensions for REAPER
REAPER Forum – Official user forum
Groove3 Reaper Explained Tutorial video hosted by Kenny Gioia
If you haven’t tried tried REAPER yet get full version trial here: http://reaper.fm/download.php
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