my friends' blogs
- 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...
- 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...
- 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... - 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...
- 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... - rodney — computing humor
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Quotes of the day:
Someone decided to trash the one part of Windows that was usable? The file system is no longer usable. The registry is not usable. This program listing was one sane place but now it is all crapped up. ...The lack of attention to usability represented by these experiences blows my mind. I thought we had reached a low with Windows Network places or the messages I get when I try to use 802.11. (don't you just love that root certificate message?)
Now you're thinking "oh God, another Linux zealot going off about Windows"... until you see who wrote it: Bill Gates. Full story at Gizmodo Note: this is actually an old story about Windows XP. Vista, as we all know by now, is even worse. read more... - rodney — Symbian is Free Software
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- News just in is that Nokia have bought up Symbian, and intend to release it as Free Software (under the Eclipse Public License) as of today. As far as I'm aware Symbian is currently the most widely used Operating System in the world - there were 100 million phones running Symbian in 2006 - so this means that as of this moment Free Software is now more widely used than proprietary software. That's a pretty significant shift in the way of things, especially considering Symbian own 67% of the smartphone market, with Windows Mobile holding only 13%... read more...
- rodney — Real World stuff
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- Oh, forgot to mention in the last post: I've been spending some time recently talking with The Cedars, winners of the MI7 Real World contest. Looks like the plan is for me to produce the session at Real World Studios sometime next month, if all goes well. I'm very much looking forward to it, they are a great band, and I think we could create some damn fine tracks there. Let's see... read more...
- rodney — back from being a hermit
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I haven't been posting much in the past couple of months, mainly because I've been taking time to work on a new book and get some personal business stuff out of the way.
Things are looking interesting though... we've been approached about a new record deal, and asked to play some more festivals at the end of the year / beginning of next year. So the plan is to spend as much time as possible in the studio over the next few months and finally finish off all of the things that have been sitting on the hard drive for ages in a half-finished state.
So someday soon I might even get round to putting some new songs on the music player! :-)
read more... - Live Ullmann — New website
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Check out www.liveullmann.com
read more... - Live Ullmann — New album coming up soon
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- Please have a taste. read more...
- rodney — looking for the mouse
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- Very possibly the best article ever written about blogging, MMOs, and the participatory culture of the Internet: Gin, Television, and Social Surplus read more...
- rodney — April is the cruellest month
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Well, April is nearly over now, and I can't wait to see the back of it. It's been a horrible month. My home office got burgled twice - and the second time while I was still at home! I lost a ton of my gear, computers, phones, passport, credit cards etc.
Luckily all my data was backed up and I'm slowly getting back to normal, but it's taken some time. So if you've been trying to get hold of me and didn't get an answer, now you know why...
read more... - Mindmovie — new Song added "Aurora 2008"
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- "Aurora" is a song dedicated to the power of the sun Actually composed in the 70's and reworked on the first sunny sunday I had within 2008. Still in rough mix mode read more...
- flamingbess — Flaming Bess airplay at UR Rock - N O W - at 20:00
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follow the link and click on UR Rock Stream
http://www.ur-radio.de/portal.php
one hour interview and songs of our new record Waechter des Lichts starting in 25 minutes
read more... - flamingbess — Flaming Bess airplay at UR Radio next Saturday 20:00
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here is link to listen to a one hour special about the new CD incl. Bandinterview
http://www.ur-radio.de/portal.php
Specials Flaming Bess : Wächter des Lichts
don't miss it
read more... - rodney — back in the studio
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Been up in Manchester at the studio last couple of days, and it's been fun so far. Managed to recreate the lost backing track of a fabulous Cassandra Complex song that we've never been able to play live before, so I think we'll be premiering that at the Bath gig on Friday. Also I think we may have finalised work on a cover song that we'll be playing there too. So far everything sounds fantastic... let's see what the gig itself brings...
read more... - mattreasor — Digital Deal with Dualtone Music Group!!!!!!
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- Holy Contractual Matrimony Batman! MATT REA$0R and the MADNE$$ just signed a deal with the best Southern Artist Oriented Record Label On Earth, DUALTONE! Holy Crap this is huge. My first introduction to the music presented by Dualtone was Jim Lauderdales’ hugely influential "Other Sessions" album, and Hayseed Dixie’s "Hillbilly Tribute to AC/DC". I was reviewing alt country albums for all music guide, and frankly Dualtone knew the deep fried trend was coming by way of left of center. So it makes complete sense that the best label stuck out their paper hand and picked Nashville’s "Best Looking Golden Psychobilly Emerging Legend of Country and Punk" , none other than yours truely, Matt Reasor featuring Tucker Tamble and Barry Daniel. What does this mean wise jelly bean, you ask. Well this means "Pentecostal Pasta Salad" will now be available for digital download on all the major digital distribution services and networks like iTunes and Amazon and way way beyond..I’m talking Inter-planetary-internet man, stuff we don’t even know about yet, dude! To add a cherry to the top of the float that your granny got you for being so sweet, is that Dualtone has also picked up the High or Hellwater catalog(Matt’s old band from when he lived in California, groovy high cotton times). So be looking for "High or Hellwater", "Living the Good Lie", and "Legends and Hall of Famers" available from Dualtone records. Getting this deal is a huge homage to independent music and the lifestyle behind it. All of these projects have been self funded and promoted up to this point, to have the great honor of being in business with the leader in world of independent country music is as big as an honor as I have ever experienced. This completely rocks! read more...
- mattreasor — Album Review in Sounding Board, Martin's in house paper
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- Hey go check out: http://www.martinguitar.com/news/PDF/Vol_24.pdf page 35....... read more...
