Hardware

Studio Diary: April (Actually Way Too Loud)

Studio Diary: April (Actually Way Too Loud)

After several months of my live gear living on my bedroom desk, I finally packed it up in a rolling suitcase and took it down to my studio on the bus. This was precipitated not so much by the change in weather – although it’s quite a lot more comfortable in the studio these days, and the bathrooms have been thankfully renovated as well – but the need to actually hear what was going on outside of my headphones.

Studio Diary: March (From One Manifestation to Another)

Studio Diary: March (From One Manifestation to Another)

Although I haven’t spent much time in my actual studio this month (after a rough winter, the mere thought of the place conjures up memories of freezing air and stinky toilets), my gear has been getting a fair bit of play while set up cozily in my bedroom.

Subconscious Forces in Music Making

Subconscious Forces in Music Making

Last night I had an epiphany that was a surprisingly long time coming. I'd been going through the previously-mentioned process of tracking demos, and the way I was doing it was sending each instrument straight into the computer, to get a totally dry recording of each that I planned to later mix and layer with effects and so forth. And it sounded, if not awful, just wrong.