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Goodbye to a true pioneer

I think enough has been said by much better musician’s and people in the industry about Eddie Van Halen, so I’ll leave it at saying he was someone that will go down as a true pioneer and game changer in the history of guitar playing. Here’s a really great interview he did a few years …

Blog Entry, Videos

Analogue to Digital And Back Again

When I took my Audio Engineering program a few years back we spent a substantial amount of time on digital recording. One part dealt with the shape of the wave form and how, because it was basically created by taking a sample numerous times a second. Instead of being a smooth rounded shape it would …

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Audio Interfaces

OK so if you’ve been playing the home game I left your cords dangling at the end of that last post on ports. Time to grab your cable and stick it into something!! You’re thinking about sex again aren’t you? Ugh you people.. Audio interfaces people!!!! Lets talk dirty about those. So what is an …

Technology

Any Port In A Storm

Eew I can sense the excitement in the air, we’re talking about ports, where you stick stuff in and magical things happen. You’re excited right? Right? Be honest, after that intro your mind went to the gutter… Perv 😉 COMPUTER ports my friend, that is where we’re at today. How you connect your audio interface …

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Let’s Talk Tech

It’s kinda funny that I’ve focused on audio talk and remixes but never get into what I actually make a living at and how it relates to audio. So as you may or may not know I’ve worked in IT for 20 something years. I love technology in all it’s various forms and in particular …

Portfolio, Remixes

Everybody Knows By Christina Holmes Remix

It’s been a while since I posted a remix, I had some free time this weekend so I thought I would remix a song and throw it up here 🙂 I picked another genre I am unfamiliar with because expanding horizons is always a good thing. In this case it’s a “folk” song, but there …

Blog Entry, Remixes

Chase K – Long Long Way Down Remix

One of the things I love about mixing is the exposure to different types of music I normally don’t listen to. Take this remix, it’s a pop song, not generally speaking my thing. I start assembling it by adjusting each instrument part and it’s individual sound one by one to what I think it should …

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Trying Out The Presonus Ecosystem Part Two – Mixing

Kind of jumping all over the place here in terms of the process, but rather than starting with recording I thought I would start by mixing a track. The track I chose was a nice little acoustic number called Long Long Way Down by ChaseK. The Gear I thought I should really try to use …

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Trying Out The Presonus Ecosystem – Part One How I Got Here

So years ago when I started getting interested in mixing I was looking for a DAW that was easy to learn but had the features I thought I would need as I became more proficient and learned more about the process. I ended up going with a DAW called Mixcraft which honestly, I still love …