That actually wasn’t so bad. I’ve gotten to the end of my first week working on my EP (see last week’s “announcement” post) and I’m actually feeling pretty darn good about this whole thing. I’d expressed some reservations about re-visiting my songs – especially dealing with the production choices that I’ve lived with over the years. To tell you the truth, …
The Anatomy of a Remix (that I did)
If you haven’t checked it out, my remix of Jody Quine‘s “From the Heart” was included on her latest album Stand Up. Check out the two versions below: The Two Versions I’ve received a couple of technical and artistic questions about my remix of Jody Quine’s “From the Heart”, so I thought I may as well write a post or two about …
A432 Tuning – Bullpoop or Other?
Someone called me an “Audio Mythbuster” a long time ago. Especially when dealing with audio “folklore”, I’ve never been one to accept statements that are purporting to be fact but sound more like subjective opinion. Same Page Now for those of you who haven’t heard about this, there are a number of sites and blogs out there that discuss the …
Fetch Boy!
Cody. He’s a fantastic dog. He’s always eager to please and LOVES to fetch his ball.
Being too eager can unfortunately get him screwed up in this activity though. Try as he might, he can’t seem to resist the urge to start running to fetch the ball BEFORE I actually throw it.
couple of these incidents is usually a sign that we need to continue on the walk.
This actually got me thinking of my eager-beaver days when I was starting out in this artistic business of ours.
What’s an Artist?
I go on these spurts every once in a while where I’ll revisit some of the forums that I’m registered at. Depending on my workload or how I’m feeling, this will be every other week or every other month. It’s kind of like this blog on my site – not really a regular thing. Just when I feel that I have …
Cheep (rim shot) Speaker Stands
My new space, “The Incubator” finally gave me the room and opportunity to PROPERLY have two sets of monitor speakers for mixing. I had built my original monitor speaker stands back 10 years ago, and they’ve served me quite well through two moves back and forth across the continent. The cool thing about them is that they’re easy and cheap …
Taming the Clucks – Part II
I know that these posts are slow and infrequent – appologies for that, but a LOT of different things have happened in life, work and everything lately. The IHR podcast has suffered unfortunately, but will definitely be propped up in the weeks to come. I’ve actually finished and been using the “Incubator” for the past month or so – really …
Taming the Clucks in the Incubator
I’ve neglected updating my blog AND getting IHR 101 out. Life has taken over my … well, life lately and between dealing with work, family and building out the Incubator, I haven’t had much time to pay attention to tossing up a post. Needless to say, I’ve got a lot of fodder to throw your way and here’s the first …
Three Reasons Music Theory Could Help Your Mix
You’ve heard of all the pre-mix “rituals” and administrative things that you’re supposed to do before you mix … haven’t you? You know, all those things about organizing your tracks, editing your tracks, putting in markers, colouring things, loading templates… all that stuff. Well, of course, that’s golden advice! Anything that’ll help you work more efficiently and effectively is going …
Silence Can Be Creative
When mixing tracks, I don’t always take the view that I HAVE to use every track I’m given. A lot of times, the impact of the song is strengthened by making (sometimes liberal) use of the Mute button.