Having put a few months between myself and completing the Gallutep music video I can be abit more subjective when reviewing it and drawing up the list of improvements I’d like to implement in the next one. In hindsight the theme was overly dramatic (too…
Electronic music
As I get closer to finishing the first mix of Gallutep I’ve started to flesh out the music video concept I’d been mulling over since I began work on the track back in September (tends to take me between six to ten months to complete…
Having picked up/dusted myself off following the confidence shit-kicking that can be submithub.com (18 declines out of 21 submissions for Fat Controller) I sifted down through the comments and whittled the constructive feedback down to: the track being too dark, minimal or repetitive and needing…
Having been working out of the office for a good few days the last two weeks I came back to mixing down the latest electro tune with somewhat fresher ears and found the chorus sections to be still sounding too full and muddy. I muted…
Picked me up a bargain copy of Cubase 7 via the KVRaudio market place forums last weekend. 50% off the regular price incl. a few expansion packs which works out far cheaper than upgrading from verison 5. Yesterday at the Music Production Show in London…
Working on the latest electro tune I realized the majority of the presets/tracks being used taken were from the Reaktor Razor VST. The quality of the sound design in this instrument is fantastic and its very easy to get alternate sounds via MIDI modulation. I…
Worn alitte thin this week by commission work. One in particular is proving a right bollix, its probably the most back and forth messaging I’ve ever done with a support center for a site related issue, this being trying to set-up an automatic back-up service…
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…