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Tour of Moby’s home studio and drum machine collection

Jon — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 05:06:25 +0000

Today I came across a great video of Moby’s studio and awesome analog drum machine collection.
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Roland Space Echo Video

Jon — Thu, 07 May 2009 02:08:56 +0000

Roland Space Echo RE-150 from Jon Tidey on Vimeo.

Just messing around with my new toy the Roland Space Echo RE-150. This is an analog tape delay.

The ancient tape in this thing is starting to make some unwanted noise besides that it sounds great.

Let me know what you think of it.

New Gear Day – Roland RE-150 Space Echo

Jon — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 00:28:27 +0000

I got a good deal on a Roland RE-150 Space Echo today at a Salvation Army auction. This is not the same as the the more famous RE-201. The difference being this one doesn’t have the spring reverb.

It doesn’t work though

One more pic

There’s not a lot of info on these on the Interwebs.
The meter lights up and there is a roller that moves but the tape does not. I haven’t tried passing audio through it yet, there’s not much point without the tape moving.

If anyone knows about these please contact me.

[edit] I got it working, a roller just needed some oil and now it runs. I may still get it serviced to get the tape speed more steady, but that may be as simple as a new tape cartridge.

Gear Lust – Smart AV Tango

Jon — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 09:01:42 +0000

OMFG look at this thing!

That’s a 22″ widescreen touch LCD. Those are metal knobs, dedicated transport controls, mousepad, 8 channel strips, 100mm touch sensitive fader, touch sensitive rotary encoders.

Drool factor of 9.5

http://www.smartav.net/tango/index.php

Made for Logic, Cubase and Nuendo, but I hear it works pretty decent with Pro Tools too.

Some NIN gear porn

Jon — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 14:38:04 +0000

From 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!

Sunday linkdump

Jon — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 14:50:00 +0000

Just before I leave for the studio to record some drums I’ll leave you all with some things that have caught my attention this week.

Poor Old Autotune - The Womb

I was an internet drummer – The Womb

Charles Dye interview part 2 – EM Cast

Omnisphere Video Episodes – Spectrasonics (the psychoacoustic sampling one is just so cool.)

Soft Rock Band – Wired Listening Post

FL Studio 8 Beta for registered users – Image-Line

TAL-BassLine – KVR

Shaack Transient Shaper – KVR

Eddy’s Studio build – Ultimate Metal/Andy Sneap

And thank you to everyone that have purchased the sample collection already.

Huge gallery of studio photos

Jon — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 05:12:16 +0000

RecordProduction.com now has a fantastic gallery you can browse to see hundreds of great photos from professional studios around the world.

http://recordproduction.smugmug.com/Music

From the PSW REP forums: Anatomy of a session in May

Jon — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 01:57:02 +0000

Terry Manning of Compass Point Studios has documented the progress of a recent project on the Prosoundweb: Whatever Works Forum.

Lots of pictures and brief explanations of techniques and mic placement. I really like the way they made booths for the guitars, I haven’t seen anything exactly like that yet.

Read it all here

Youthmovies Studio Diary

Jon — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 02:14:07 +0000

Youthmovies is a young indie band from Oxford. They are currently recording their first album and documenting the whole process on their Myspace blog. There are about a billion pictures of guitar amps, synths, some insane pedal chains, and lots of candid photos of the madness in the studio. It looks like they are having a lot of fun, but they’ve been in the studio for almost a month straight.

~~Go to their blog!~~ Sorry, no longer available. ☹