my friends' blogs
- Geomatic — New track "Sacrifice" is uploaded!
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New track "Sacrifice" is uploaded
All comments are welcome!
Thank You!
read more... - HaveMercy — Introducing: Ghosts Inc.
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- We just finished up a longer collaborative project "Ghosts Inc." 'We' are three musicians here at MI7. We have five tracks posted on the profile right now, and I would be very interested in hearing your comments on the music. See community.mi7.com/profile/12178 for more info. Thanks. read more...
- Mindmovie — Planet Passion IV
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- A collaboration with Andres Rexach a guitar magician from Spain. Check his profile on myspace this man is a guitar and sitar monster. read more...
- JOANPi — Jimmy Single Release Update
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- Hi, I have decided for personal reasons to withdraw the release of the album 'Jimmy Single' . Further updates will be announced. Thank you, Enjoy the summer. JOANPi read more...
- Subliminal — Pigs In Hell
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- After the rather easy June, July proved to be a more difficult piece to turn into something half-decent. And ofcourse I failed yet again. But what can one do, except hope for more luck the next time around. Anyway, 10 down and still 2 to go. I was hoping to finish the writing before september, which would mean that I would have been working on it for a year (well, more or less anyway), but the way things are going now I have serious doubts about making such a deadline. Not that it really matters. read more...
- Morten Jernberg — Øya festival and the end of another vacation
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I can`t remember the last time summer in Norway meant sun, nice weather, and bucket-loads of it in the summer month of July. Went to the yearly Oslo music festival called Øya Festivalen yesterday, and saw a cool new band worth checking out if you`re into "americana"-type of music. Check out american band Okkervil River.
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- Raven — Calling All Interested mi7 Musicians
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As all of you know, I am a devoted mom as well as a composer and musician. And as all of you know, I am a very vocal advocate for Autism Rights.
I enjoyed participating in Mindmovie's CCC project so much a few months ago that I was thinking it would be interesting to create a similar recording with snippets of my son's insights regarding Autism from an interview done with him in July 2007 and the update interview that was done with him last month.
What I am thinking of doing is using his comments along the lines of a hip hop / vocal dance mix composition. The purpose of the song would be to bring a better, more positive understanding of how children with Autism perceive the world in which they live ... our world, not their world.
I can only offer credits in lieu of money unfortunately. All of you are such incredible artists and all of you have been such good online friends to me in good times and in the most troubling times these past few months.
If you are interested in participating in this project (which would be promoted globally with links back to your websites or to your mi7 profile page just as our MIC Audio Podcasts on Autism are global), please email me at ravenmagic2003@yahoo.ca.
Thanks.
Raven :-)
read more... - Doghouse Riley — My shovel's too small. . .Or is it?
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- Where can I get me a big enough shovel to make a dang difference here in the total manure spreadin music bidness? I went down to the hardware store and they just laughed at me. But ever time I git on the internets thang it's plain ta see that ifn ya don't got one as big as a backhoe you aint' goin nowheres. Any ideas? I mean I'm willin to hyperbolize as much as the next fella or gal. Scruples, have I none. So, I got that goin fer me at least. How do you folks handle it? read more...
- Masterbox — Plugins are your best friend and a dangerous enemy
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I've noted a tendency among a lot of DAW users: They're are more interested in graphics and mousing around with parameters on fancy GUI's than actually to listening to, what they do to the audiosignal. Joe Meek's old saying: "If it sounds right, it is right" seems to support such a simple approach to adjusting the parameters on your plugins. But is your choice of settings actually good or just easy? I say: Know your plugins!
Especially dynamic processing such as EQ's and compressors are beeing extensively marketed to be DSP-versions that are hardly distinguishable from legendary analog audio equipment. They're getting closer by the minute (this is not an outcry of "I think analog equipment sounds better") and I use plugins for mastering purposses more and more. As an example the Powercore based CL1B Tube Tech compressor is excellent as is the native SSL bus-compressor from Waves. But I only use them with moderate settings just as I doo with analog compressors and EQ's. The reason is simple: they sound better and more true to their origins.
I've seen sessions with Pultec inspired plugins gaining 10 dB here and there and compressions settings of 10:1 and a low threshold setting on an acoustic Martin D28 recorded in a great room with good microphones. The result was not in ballance with the instruments real sound, and in the mix, it sounded almost artificial. Lifting vocaltracks with a +12 dB high-shelf starting at around 5 kHz will just let you have problems with the highs of all the other sources in the mix. Putting a 5:1 compression and makeup gain on an accordion just isn't musical and it will for sure only boost those clicksounds you don't whish to be hearing.
The best way to improve sound quality is to work with the recording and the acoustics in the recording situation, but after that, you could improve the "musicality" of your mix drastically by setting your processing to more moderate settings and be more true to the sound of the program material. I'm sure that if you were using hardware, you would never use it with such insane settings, simply because they don't sound their best. By using more musically tuned settings, I think you will be surprised, how much you will hear plugins improve your results. read more... - Subliminal — Barbie Stew
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- What can you do with source material like this or this? Well, maybe you could do something like this. read more...
- Lo Kivikas — "Spirit Warriors"
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New song uploaded! Have a listen to the collaboration of our common work. Three people living and working in three countries in different musical stuff...Thanks for your ears!
read more... - Marty Prior — My new song shapeshifter
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- My new song shapeshifter off my debut album due out autumn 2008 read more...
- Mindmovie — two new songs online
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- Mekon Peppers and A New Kind Of Man are the working titles and both unfinished looking for some collaboration if this kicks you please contact me. read more...
- siflaar — back again?
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Last update about 2 months ago.. hmmm whell there was a reason for it.
I moved to our new home and that costs a lot of time, not to mention that moving an internet connection was horrible.
I have some internet connection now, but hopefully next week my new provider will connect me with fiberglass.In the meantime, my studio is still a mess (some other things got a higher priority). So my gear is now situated in a boombox ;o)
hopefully just a few weeks to rebuild the studio and to start working again.BTW. Great news ... We (as in KSK Productions) composed the music and wrote the lyrics for a school musical here in Holland. And last week the musical was performed.. great to see what kids are doing with your creations. I loved it.
read more... - Subliminal — Monsoons
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- Well, that went rather quick, at least for me. Normally it takes me ages to come up with a half-decent result, but now it only took me four evenings…;-) Anyway, as you may already have guessed, I have finished another song. It's the remix of CG's June and it's called Deserts And Monsoons. Credit where credit is due, so here goes… Vocals: CG. Guitars: VG II. Drums: probably Tomas Haake. The rest: Yours Truly. 9 down, 3 to go. read more...
- JOANPi — Update!
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Hello everybuddy,
I'd like to update you that my next album-title: Jimmy Single- release changed to 22nd, give me some more time to show you ;)
Stay in tune, the next days there will be a general update about what I'm doing.
Thank you ,thank you
Listen to music, it feels good!
JOANPi xxxx read more... - Emil Hansson — Air piano
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Nice!
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- Subliminal — This is a happy song.
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- After trying a zillion different last things to add to the song and deciding on only drums from Trifonic's Broken for the chorus, and after freezing instruments, muting tracks, bypassing fx and exporting the song more times than was good for my mental health, I finally can offer you my remix of CG's May, called Hide The Fuse From The Fire. Sometimes I wonder if it's all worth it. read more...
- Morten Jernberg — Flight of the Conchords – check it out!
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Flight of the Conchords- I'm Not Crying Ep 1.
Flight of the Conchords - Business Time read more... - Morten Jernberg — Technorati blog link
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- Technorati Profile read more...
