Tape...

Just brought one of these, came with some old tapes with some really cool stuff on them, no idea who the band are or who recorded them but I've been playing around with the recordings and have fallen in love with the sound of tape and the work flow of using one of these.  I haven't done much recording with it only some basic 1 track guitar stuff but look forward to tracking some bands on it soon!

Haven't posted in ages

Lots of Uni work!!

Amazing Music Tech mag.....AND ITS FREE!

Love this magazine, really informative, great interviews and reviews, cool adds.

Tape OP!!!

Home Taping is Killing Music

I found this on the back of a 1980's Bruce Springsteen album that was lying around, it reads "home taping is killing music...and its illegal", so thats when music piracy started, back in the 80's, and look at the extent of piracy now...if we only knew how bad things would get back then.  Perhaps illegal downloads will be laughing stock in 20 years time who knows.  

Orchestra in a Weird Space

Watched an orchestra perform in a large building with a very high ceiling and massive glass windows.  It was interesting to here such a large orchestra in a strange acoustic environment.  The picture above is taken from a bridge inside the building about quarter of the way up.  The picture bellow taken from a distance.  

Heres what it sounded like (crappy recording from iphone on the bride)

Prism Sound Mic To Master

Went to a Mic to Master event today with people such as Tony Platt, producer of some ACDC and Bob Marley albums, along with many other professionals in the music business.  Mastering Engineers from AIR studios and technicians from DPA, ATC acoustic engineers, audient, prism sound, and SADiE were all present.

Mic To Master is a series of workshops and masterclasses on recording techniques, mixing and mastering which are designed to give engineers, producers and all other creative audio enthusiasts an opportunity to learn expert tips and tricks of the trade from recording industry professionals. 


The day started with Tony Platt talking through the process of producing an entire album for an artist last year, it was really interesting to see what problems he encountered on the way and how he overcame them.  
Tony then went on to discuss the use of microphones and we did some comparisons, he also talked us through his choice of processing and mastering on some particular tracks.  


After lunch it was all about mastering with Matt Colton of AIR studios, he began with a talk about mastering for vinyl and how some techniques can be transferred to mastering for CD.  The second half of the afternoon was run as a workshop format with Matt mastering a track on the rig that they had brought in.  It was really cool to be able to observe this process and take some notes.


Well worth going!

HEAT listening challenge

Just had a go at the heat listening challenge.

Three mixes, Protools only, ProTools with HEAT enabled and a mix on a Neve 8048

"Many audio professionals believe that certain Neve consoles are the Holy Grail of analog mixing supremacy and are key to getting that coveted warmth in your digital recordings. Many others believe that you can get the same sonic richness mixing in Pro Tools, using plug-ins and no analog gear whatsoever. Still others believe that the answer lies somewhere in between, using analog inserts or summing boxes with an “in the box” Pro Tools mix."

I found it really difficult to distinguish between the pro tools only and the pro tools with heat mix however could easily here the analogue summed mix.