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When the heck are we gonna get all of the important info that comes on a hard copy of a music purchase, with an mp3? I mean for cryin' out loud! Am I the only one that wants to know who produced an album? Who played drums? Where was it recorded? Who mastered it? What the heck did that singer say?? Hes gonna bury a chocolate bar? Gonna buy a 'lectric guitar? We'll never know... These are the burning questions that keep me up at night after I have visited amazon or itunes for a quick fix. Sure, some of this info can be found on the net. IF you can avoid the bot sites that come up in google that say RADIO HEAD LYRICS and then proceed to try and take over your computer after you click the link. Even still, it can be difficult to find credits. And dagnabbit, I shouldn't have to go looking. I should get it when I buy the music-Automatically. There are a couple of places like NoneSuch Records that sell you the CD, and an instant (high quality!) download for 1 price. This ro...

I love technology. Old, new, vintage, it's all good. I was reading an interview with producer Erol Alkan recently in Future Music. (if you don't know the UK mag, ignore the high cost and subscribe immediately) He was echoing something that has been said many times by many great producers; technology, plugins, convolution 'verbs and on board DSP are all great....but....what really matters is the ideas that are recorded. A producers job should be to take a really talented artist/band and capture what they do while carefully accentuating and accenting what they do. This is typically the process that makes the Great records and songs. Ya know, the ones that still hold up 20 years later. For some reason, when the opposite is true, ie. a producer takes pretty face and molds the syllables and songs into a quantized pop sensation, it doesn't seem to last. Why is that? They are both ideas coming from a person or team. I can think of a few possible reasons but I would love to he...

I had a blast hanging out with Eddie Kramer this week. He is on a small tour sponsored by Waves and Logic. He is a super nice guy with amazing stories to tell. It is always interesting to hear how different people get the "big break". He said that when Hendrix was to come to the studio where he worked,(then unknown) the manager said "oh, you do all that weird music, you do the session", and a legendary team was born. Some of photos we saw of him with Jimmy Page at the console and members of the Stones etc..were super cool. Eddie also did something really neat; he brought in a recent Logic session from a band he recorded at Abby Road. (BTW, he records to Analog and then transfers to Logic) He walked us through virtually every track and talked about the mics and plugins he used, talked about why he used them and showed us the settings on each plug! Talk about a Master Class! He really likes using plugins and uses them extensively. He favored the Waves SSL and the...

I am writing a delicate Piano/Cello piece and am in the process of rendering it or "fleshing it out" in my studio. Ya know, I gotta say, the available solo cello samples out that are available are just not that good yet. (IMHO- please correct me with some that are!!) Although the cello part will be replaced by a real, live player with a bow in hand eventually, it has become a bit of an academic exercise to make this part sound as natural a possible. This composition is just for the sake of music and therefore I have no director/producer anxiously staring at the clock! So, I can take my time and play with it. A rarity indeed.... This particular cello from the EWQLSO library is pretty"barky" in the mids and upper mids and quite harsh. (1k, 3k, 5k-aprox)I have had some interesting results with cutting out some of the offending frequencies but as I A/B with a Yo Yo playing Bach: The 6 Unaccompanied Cello Suites (which rocks, BTW) It occurs to me that this sample just do...

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