my friends' blogs
- Jan vander Gaag — Producer Conference's September 20 + 21
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- Hi all. Just to let you know that we have planned 2 new Producer Conferences in Amsterdam and Brussels! 20 September - Producer Conference in Brussels 21 September - Producer Conference in Amsterdam http://www.theproducersconference.com/ Look forward to see you ALL! Ciao - Jan 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... - Mats Paulsen — New upload: Sunrise
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- Today I uploaded a new track that I call Sunrise. The name is my wifes idea, I named it Sunset before that, but Sunrise fits better. read more...
- 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...
- OmarHash — "Between You & Me" sneak-peak track
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- http://www.cavecybernation.com/popsmash/content/omarhashpages/ click the first track in the playlist. 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... - 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... - 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...
- Mats Paulsen — New upload: Changing
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- Today I've uploaded another new track: Changing. Feel free to listen to it and enjoy. 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...
- Simon — Moving on with Trains!
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Hi there!
As you know, I enjoy composing for my “Quest of the Heroes”-project immensely, but lately I’ve tried to compose pieces not connected to a specific story. Its absolutely great to compose more “freely” and let the music lead the way in different directions. Due to my lack of patience, I improvise a lot to get the pieces finished. I rush through my compositions leaving them with apparent flaws... But, I’m still fond of them and I will probably revisit and rework them some day!
And now, I've uploaded a new song again, made with no restrictions of a story but with inspiration from… …trains.
So this time, its a piece about trains. Trains? Why? Well... Why not!
As a kid I was fascinated by trains (along with Star Wars and dinosaurs, of course). I played with them, and I read about them. Now, thirty or so years later, I finally have the possibility to make music. So why not make a piece for trains? So this is my homeage to all the trains in the world!
I've got tons of ideas and I'm thinking about, someday in the future, expand the music into a longer and more worked-through piece, a kind of "Train Symphony". So this is a kind of a little test, like a demo for more music to see if the music holds up. Most parts are improvised but I'm really fond of the piece, especially the "happy moment" beginning at about 2:47 and when the main hammering motif returns at about 4:06. I think my arrangements improves as I keep on composing, learning more and more about my humble equipment (no, I don't even use midi yet), trying to get the most out of it. I've learned more how to cut pieces together in Cubase, to edit, fade in, fade out, cut, paste... And by putting small pieces together into a longer piece my computer holds up a lot better and I can use more sounds and instruments in my music.
I had such fun doing this piece anyway, the music coming straight from my heart. At first I thought about using military march drums, clashing cymbals and metallic sounds but I didn't find any good of these sounds in my keyboard, so I used hammering piano and a lot of pounding drums instead to drive the piece forward. And I'm quite happy how that turned out, the main "hammering" motif is distinctly "trainy" and instantly recognized. Like trains could go on forever, I could do variations on this "train music" forever. The piece uploaded is finished with a little coda, just for fun.
By the way, the "Nightmare Suite" is thrown out in favor of the trains, but can still be heard at www.myspace.con/quest oftheheroes
Regards
/Simon
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!
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