Archive for February 2014
Northern Composure
Warringah Counil’s “Northern Composure” youth band competition is rolling around again. Continuumusic has been a sponsor of the band comp since its inception and I’ve been one of the judges. I’m also the house sound engineer at Yo-Yo’s (the venue that the competition is run from). I’ve had the pleasure of mixing some of the…
Read MoreCD vs Vinyl – The argument is scarier than you thought.
A friend of mine who is an excellent sound engineer sent me a link to a lecture by Rupert Neve the other day. It dated back to 2001 and was quite illuminating. For those of you who don’t know the name, Rupert Neve is possibly one of the most renowned designers of audio equipment to…
Read MoreYou don’t have to be good to be great
I doubt that any of my favourite singers would have passed the audition stage of The Voice let alone made it through to the finals. I avoid watching those supposed “reality” shows because my feelings about pitting one vocalist against another in some sort of battle to the death makes me quietly fume. (sometimes not…
Read MoreAuditioning a sound engineer for your recording project
So you want to record something and you’ve asked the engineer you’re thinking of using for the job if you can “come into the studio and listen to some stuff he’s recorded before.”? This has happened to me maybe three or four times over a pretty long history as an engineer and it happened again…
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