Started to re-think the live rig set-up yesterday, particularly with the forthcoming release of Ableton Push. What I like about Abletons new controller is that it allows you to do alot without having to look at the computer screen (something I’m loath to have to…
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Did’nt quite manage to stay away from the studio/office over the festives as I wanted to get Windows 7 installed on an new SSD drive aswell as bumping up the RAM and adding more cooling fans to the PC case. As usual it took twice…
I finished the poster for the forth ICM tune, Gallutep, last night (see below). It could maybe do with more digital/MIDI references but I’m happy enough with the way the reverse image worked. Bit on the dirty side but should draw the eye in :p…
I started to re-arrange the studio speaker set-up yesterday to include the new un-ported single driver monitor (for mono testing) and a set of low budget PC speakers (grot boxes) for checking typical listening environment yolk. Thankfully there was just enough space either side of…
Begun work on the forth ICM-01 tune. Decided to put up the few ideas I had on Facebook and let my friends decide. Top rated was a Dubstep tune built entirely out of sounds related to a chicken – kinda random I know but having…
Having got thru the first few chapters in Mike Seniors excellent Mixing Secrets for the small studio I decided to follow his advice and round out the monitor set-up in my studio with a single cone mono speaker and a set of grot boxes. The…
I hit the second wall with the arrangement for Cinder Biter, it was sounding flat, even after the automation, so I messed about with some different vocorder lines using one or two free vsts’s and then tried the vocorder in Razor which along with a…
Got the bulk of the arrangement finished for Cinder Biter. Tis fairly close to the one I did for Enter the Dragon and has a similar feel to the song aswell. I might try and tie in the storyline of the two videos. I came…
Made a decent amount of progress with the Cinder Biter track this week. Ended up adding another Scanner XT vst to the tune, that’s about six or seven now. The easy automation and the digital/organic feel of the presets are fantastic. Its definitely gonna get…
