Ant is with me in the studio on work experience – work? 🙂 – this week and today we started recording a track that he’s putting together based around his main instrument, the guitar. This little video is of him practising the main chord progression on his acoustic earlier today. Read more…
The free TEDTalks always provide stimulating and wonderful videos from the TED conferences and this one, Eric Whitacre: A virtual choir 2,000 voices strong, is a great example. It’s an amazing accomplishment that so many people who have never met can submit their performances to be compiled into a wonderful Read more…
The Herman Miller Aeron chair can be found in many studios across the world and I have been using one in my studio for about the last eight years. Unfortunately, the right arm of my beloved Aeron snapped off (I hasten to add that it probably didn’t like my weight Read more…
The rooms we perform, record, mix, and master in, should be the best they can be for the required role to help us achieve a great sound and performance. I was accompanying Trinity Guildhall exams today at St.George’s Church in Worcester and it reminded me of how important our surroundings Read more…
So far this year I have done eight DAT tape transfers and am being sent a couple more this week – in total that’s as many as I did for all of 2010! These jobs are mainly from musicians realising that they have their precious music on DAT and they Read more…
Today we have lost the amazing composing talent of John Barry who has died of a heart attack at the age of 77. I, along with countless others, have been inspired, encouraged, and entertained by his wonderful music. Over his amazing composing career John Barry wrote a wonderful variety of Read more…
Came across string arranger and orchestrator Pete Whitfield‘s Disco Strings video today – think it’s a great introduction to using strings in disco music and for a good intro to strings in general. Very well put together and informative. Pete Whitfield on YouTube:http://www.youtube.com/user/pwhitfield and on Twitter:http://twitter.com/pwhitfield
There is a dream that many people share for an end to the mental loudness war that still continues after many years. One man who champions the idea of putting dynamic range back into music is mastering engineer Ian Shepherd (@ianshepherd) and he has come up with an excellent idea Read more…
There are some people probably wondering what a DAT is. The joy of being young! When I was starting out not too many years ago way way back in the 1990s the Digital Audio Tape was, before the invasion of affordable hard drives and CD-Rs, a widely used stereo format Read more…
Just been introduced to the talent of Kutiman via Paul Rostill with his post on the SOS Music Recording Technology Forum. Here’s his perfect description of what Kutiman does: “What he has done is use Youtube as a stonking great big sample library, of sorts. And he’s not using just Read more…