Recording
From the IBM 360 to today
My wife and I were watching Mad Men last night. If you’re not a fan of the show (or live under a rock), it is a drama based on life in an advertising agency in the 60’s and 70’s. Anyway, in the episode we were watching the agency had just installed a new computer. In…
Read MoreReal Estate and the Alpha Experiment
My apologies for not writing a blog in a few weeks. It’s been pretty hectic in my household recently and blogging has been something that has just been beyond my ability to get my head around. First of all we were looking at buying the house we are currently renting. We put in an offer…
Read MoreStardom: You’re doing it wrong.
All of these things I have done. ….and I am not a star. They are the stupid things that have held me back. I have done them and am now listing them so you don’t have to. I give you permission to use this list. Pin it on the wall next to your bathroom mirror…
Read MoreNorthern 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 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…
Read MoreThe search for newness.
I’ve never been a fan of awards shows in the music or film industry. Probably because I’ve never won anything. I’ve never even been nominated. Only myself to blame for that, I suppose but as a result, I’ve never tuned in or shown any interest in the Grammy Awards, The Oscars, et al as I’ve…
Read MoreIt was a very good year..
It was a very good year. One of my favourite songs of all time. I should warn you that the following blog is pretty introspective, self indulgent and it’s all about ME!! Lol. So if you’re not into that, here are some amusing pictures of kittens so you don’t feel like you’ve come here…
Read MoreThe first “Live On Deck”
A couple of weekends back we ran our first “Live On Deck” show at Continuumusic. Basically, we put on four bands on our stage in the studio backyard, recorded them in multi-track and set up a bunch of video cameras to capture their performances. It went well. Each band was asked to invite some guests…
Read MoreThe making of “Fedoras For Dinosaurs” Part II
Last week I invited you all behind the scenes of the recording process of my latest album. If you didn’t read that, you might want to go back now and scan through it before you continue or you’ll be lost on what I’m talking about. For those who have already, let’s continue… The overdubs. The…
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