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Gear For Sale – Tascam Field Recorder, M-Audio Keyrig, Rode NT4 Mic, Akai MPD24
Hey everyone, Just doing a little cleaning in my studio, paring down everything to the essentials and also funding some upcoming purchases. To that end, I’m putting stuff up for sale. If you’re interested, feel free to contact me through the “Contact” link in the top menu of the site! UPDATE: All items have been [...]
The Covert Operators "Clip Mapper"
I've been speaking with Bjorn of The Covert Operators on and off for the last few weeks about his latest Max4Live project, the "Clip Mapper." He described it to me in broad terms but I must admit that the details a were a bit fuzzy for me. I'm not a Max/MSP guy by any stretch [...]
Want Some Free Samples for your Multimedia Project? #twsfx
Matt Pacyga and I have teamed up to release some free sample downloads resulting from our respective field recording experiments. Matt has put together a superb set of crunches and splats which originally emanated from his kitchen and some very unlucky food items. The recordings are high quality and super-creative, so I highly encourage you [...]
Going the Extra Mile for Unique Timbres: Part 2
Continuing from the last post, let’s take a look at some more sound-shaping tools that will aid us in our quest to develop unique timbres. As usual, I’ll be using Ableton Live to illustrate when needed. Gate Combined with Effects Automation Although generally used as a corrective device to remove excess noise between sounds [...]
Going the Extra Mile for Unique Timbres: Part 1
I thought it would be fun to put together a small list of useful timbral-shaping tools. They are presented in no particular order along with a few words on how I like to use them. I tend to refer to a similar list in my head whenever I’m trying to come up with a creative [...]
Letting Necessity Guide Your Sound Design
This time I’d like to focus on how an instrument or sound effect develops along with the composition. Last week I mentioned that many device presets contain too much frequency content to easily fit into a mix with other instruments. This generally means that judicious use of subtractive EQ is required to tame these complex [...]
Keep Your Mix Clean
Those who primarily use software to create their music often lack valuable perspective when it comes to composition, and this can have a detrimental effect on the resulting mixes. I count myself in this group, and I only recently (within the last 2 years) became aware of what I was doing. To get right to [...]
Creating an Abundance of New Sounds in Ableton Live
I used to have a rather idealistic reaction to the use of random elements in music, asserting that this was somehow less than artistically pure and that a finished piece that was any less than 100% the result of conscious decision-making was incomplete at best. As the years wore on, I realized that such a [...]
Writer's Block? Read This.
I’d like to lay out some tips on getting past writer’s block in all of its ugly forms whether it be apathy, procrastination, or just a frustrating lack of inspiration. Staring at a blank sequencer timeline is one of the more miserable studio activities that I can think of, so let’s take a look at [...]
Keeping Your Composition Moving Forward With Freeze and Flatten
Have you ever run into overcomplexity while arranging your latest piece of music? It happens to me all the time. It’s that phase of composition where you’ve got all kinds of automation going on, sweeping a filter here and increasing an effect trail there. In addition to automation data, you may have a dizzying array [...]