my friends' blogs
- Emil Hansson — Primesounds sale in our web shop
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We're doing some cleaning at the warehouse and are selling out all our Primesounds sample CD's at half the price. Check em out below if you like:
A Funky Future
Previews (64 kbps mp3)
Distoteque
Previews (64 kbps mp3)
Flum
Previews (64 kbps mp3)
Metriam
Previews (64 kbps mp3)
Prime SFX
Previews (64 kbps mp3)
Session Strings
Previews (64 kbps mp3) read more... - Richard Thomas — I've added 4 new (old) songs!
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- Hi friends, I've recently added four new songs to my page, relatively old for me but new for this site: Two more or less spontaneous instrumental improvisations (category: humor) and two songs, 'Bushmensong' and 'Mystery to Me'. The latter being based on an improvisation of words, guitar and Groove Agent. The lyrics seemed meaningless at first but in retrospect they reveal some meaning, at least to me. I hope you like them. read more...
- Emil Hansson — Micro-Phones contest open for voting!
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- Step right up and vote folks. This is more important than the US election! =) read more...
- Lo Kivikas — Interview with Lo Kivikas!
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SR International Radio will broadcast an exclusive interview with Lo Kivikas on Saturday, 25 of October, 22.00. You can find the station at 89.6 on the FM dial.
read more... - Emil Hansson — And then it was friday again!
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This is really funny =)
"Light technician crashing thru the ceiling during a live broadcast on swedish tv." read more... - Morten Jernberg — New Mac Book and Mac Book Pro - gimme, gimme...
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- At last! Check out the new Mac Book and Mac Book Pro´s here. read more...
- Emil Hansson — Amazing web based photoshop clone
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Very impressive!
http://www.sumo.fi/products/sumopaint/index.php?id=0 read more... - Emil Hansson — It's time for some blogging
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Gather around people. I will blog now. =)
I watched Michael Moores documentary Slacker uprising last night. I highly recommend it to everyone. You can download it for free even.
New track: Seems like it was forever since I finished any music. I have the attention span of a gold fish. Guess I need to find some other way of working to make it more creative. I've tried beer and it doesn't help at all... ;)
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Any other tips are very welcome! - Mindmovie — New song added: Theme for An Imaginary Mindmovie
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- This will be the opening title of my upcoming first solo album. If you find some time please take a listen and if you want to feel free to leave me a comment. Audio quality is below my normal standard as the song is 8 minutes long I had to go down with the bitrate to 160kb. Anyway I hope you may enjoy. read more...
- Emil Hansson — Friday fun
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Watch out for the ninja cat!
read more... - Mindmovie — New Song added - Moonmaiden
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- A rough mix of one of the songs which will be on Mindmovie's first solo record - your feedback is most welcome read more...
- Emil Hansson — Animasher
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Here's a cool new site. Create your own animations online and share them with your friends.
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I haven't tried it out myself yet so I don't know if there's a limit to how long your animation can be. I imagine creating some kind of music video. :) - Mindmovie — New Song added - House Of Love
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Although This side is now soooo painfully slow that it is no longer a real funny thing to upload something - here is a new song. Welcome to any visitor who wants to leave a comment about the music. This title features Sara England on vocals - she as well as myself have discovered what it means when you a re trying to build a "house of love" with the wrong person. That's what this song is about.
read more... - Emil Hansson — Back from vacation
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Four weeks really fly by when you´re having fun.
I've found a new computer game to look forward to.
Have a look at this teaser/trailer! :) Can't go wrong with that one.
read more... - Morten Jernberg — Yearbookyourself.com - check it out!
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Ever wonder what you might have looked like if you time-warped back in time? Check out http://www.yearbookyourself.com/
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- i am dave — At work...
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I set up a small ruby daemon that takes pictures using my isight cam every 30 seconds. This video showcases about 5 hours of my work day. I plan on making a gigantic movie that spans the course of the work week... maybe even the month. 617 images.
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...
- 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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- Tom Pedroli — Benjamin
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Today at 12.00 hrs my (our) son was born. We named him Benjamin. The Clair the Lune remix was specially written for this child (as a modern lullaby).
All is well and we are all very happy. 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...
