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…
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…
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…
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…