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Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
Recording:
- Sound On Sound Glossary: common technical terms associated with Recording, MIDI, Audio, Computers and Music Technology
- I suck at reverb: from The Womb, great tips and techniques for using reverb more effectively.
- Recording Rhythm Guitars With Darkane. Metal band Darkane give us a look inside their studio working on their new album.
Plugins:
- Studio Devil VGA is now available in RTAS for PC + Mac. I did some Beta testing on this one and it rocks! Very easy to use, zero latency, very low cpu, there’s nothing like it in this price range. http://www.studiodevil.com
- MIDIplugins.com: pretty much every MIDI plugin ever and where to get it on this site.
- Kammerl-Kaske-VSTs, a suite of 5 free sound manipulating vsts with some ‘inspirational’ GUIs. NSFWish
- C. Hackl Stereo Steinway Piano. Based on 96 Khz, 24 Bit, samples of a Steinway piano. This is my favorite free piano plugin.
Songwriting:
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Sunday, March 9th, 2008
Nine 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.
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Sunday, September 30th, 2007
What is digitalmusician.net?
digitalmusician.net is the place where the international music business community (musicians and producers) meets and works on joint projects.
Our technologies offer you, for example, the possibility to find and sell music jobs via the Internet. This way you can further your career without even leaving your studio.
You can:
- Make professional contacts worldwide
- Find music jobs and make money
- Record songs together with other members without travel or hotel costs
- Choose music projects that you would like to work on
- Find suitable partners for your projects using the “Studio & Artists“ database
- Place “adverts” for your own services and sell them
(more…)
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Sunday, April 15th, 2007
Ricci Adams’ Musictheory.net is a great site for easily learning music theory. His flash based site has lessons, trainers, and utilities. You can also download the whole site and study offline without distractions like…the internet.
The lessons are easy to follow with large visuals and not too much text. You control when to move forward or go back, and has a handy print button if you need that too.
One of the best parts of the site is the Trainers section where you can test yourself with note, key, interval, or triads, keyboard, guitar, or brass, and interval, scale, or chord ear training.
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