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Bandize: Useful Tools for Professional & Touring Bands
January 9, 2010 ServicesLast month I spent some time looking around for useful tools to make it easier for my band to do its thing when we hit the road next Summer. I remembered seeing an interesting web-app on one of the social news sites that was basically like Base Camp for bands. After doing some digging, I [...]
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Visual Analogy to High Definition Sample Rate Conversion
January 2, 2010 Sample RatesI’ve been working pretty much exclusively at 24-bit/44.1khz but now DAWs are fast enough and hard drives are cheap enough that there’s no good reason not to step it up. 192khz is simply overkill. Most DACs simply upsample to achieve that rate and response can actually be poorer as a result. This leaves the choice between 96khz and 88.2khz.
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Mono Sources in a Stereo World – Michael Franti @ RNC
July 14, 2009 Delay, Effects, Restoration, ReverbRecently I was hired to finesse a rather rough live recording of Michael Franti‘s performance at the protest concert outside the Republican National Convention in 2008. The recording was done with a pair of shotgun mics placed fairly close to each other.
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May 6, 2009 UncategorizedThought I’d mention that I did some cleaning and tweaking of TSB today. Should be loading faster and be a little easier to get around.
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Review: Ohm Force Ohmicide Distortion Plugin
May 6, 2009 Distortion, PluginsLast post I took some time to write up a review for Ohm Force‘s Symptohm synthesizer. This time around I’ll be looking at their Ohmicide multiband distortion plugin. I’m a sucker for distortions and was pretty excited to give it a spin.
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Review: Ohm Force Symptohm Synth Plugin
April 10, 2009 Plugins, SynthThe guys over at Ohm Force, an indie plugin development group out of Paris, asked me if I wanted to do a review of some of their plugins. I was happy to do so, as long as I could give an honest appraisal. So in this post I’ll be reviewing one of the four plugs [...]
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How Do I Get My Songs to Play at the Same Volume?
February 11, 2009 Software, VolumeThis article isn’t about mastering a CD so that the songs are all at the same perceived volume, it’s about getting your music collection to play back at reasonable volumes relative to each other. It’s also about providing this feature to your digital distribution customers. I’m sure you’ve at some point put your music collection [...]
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How to Add a Subwoofer to Your Monitor System
February 7, 2009 Speakers, SubwoofersSo you want to add a subwoofer to your monitor setup? Studio subwoofers can be tricky things that require a little bit of audio soul searching, auditioning, and planning to pull off well. But, a well integrated sub can make a world of difference in the right circumstances. I, for example, just added a Mackie [...]
Read More »Small Update – San Francisco Mixing Facility
January 19, 2009 UncategorizedAs some of you may be aware, I am presently focusing more on web development than on audio in an effort to save up some funds to move to San Francisco. This hasn’t left me with much time for writing. The good news for all of you, however, is that reason for the savings is [...]
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Mastering Session at Rare Form Mastering
November 3, 2008 MasteringThis post is about the mastering process for my latest EP. The session was booked at Minneapolis’ Rare Form Mastering. Greg Reierson took the helm and did a really solid job overall. First of all, I’m not the sort of producer who does mastering the same way for each album. For my own material, I [...]
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