The Sound Mind #22: John Elleson-Hartley – The Mastering Mindset James Berekely and Marcus Hedges have an excellent podcast called The Sound Mind. I had a thoroughly enjoyable chat with them recently discussing mastering, social media, and many other things related to what we do in the music biz! What Read more…
I had a fantastic time yesterday giving a guest lecture and two seminars with students at King’s College London. The lovely Joanna Karselis invited me along to share some information on mixing and mastering basics to composers writing for film module. Covered some general topics like ear training, protecting your Read more…
I wanted an SPL Meter on my iPhone as a back up and to check levels at gigs etc. so bought the really expensive £0.69 Studio Six Digital SPL Meter app. This quick test isn’t the most scientific of experiments but I’m really happy how close the app performs next Read more…
Before my work experience bod Ant left last week we managed to slap some eletric guitar into the Mac so I could create an energetic orchestral track with it. The Depths Of Deception is the end result – hope you like it! Well done to Ant for his guitar playing. Read more…
A null test is a simple check to see if one track is a perfect digital copy of the original. This requires lining up, sample accurate, the original and copy on two separate tracks and reversing the polarity of one track. On playback, with both tracks mixed together and at Read more…
Thoroughly enjoyed listening to the talents of Maurizio Parascandolo and his band on SoundCloud last night and this morning. The feel and performances just hit the spot for me. Have a listen and see what you think! Playing with Maurizio are Andrea Cerè (Double Bass & Electric Bass), Stefano Bergamini Read more…
I’ve had an excellent week with having Ant in the studio for his work experience. We’ve been able to do a variety of jobs to give him an idea of what music studio work can involve. Ant has had a full introduction to the studio environment, the room treatment, and Read more…
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 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…