well, Ive been trying to get this setup for a while - playing my ableton in a band.
so far we consist of a drummer, a bass player, two guitarists and me =)
we used to be a band before where i played bass, but i’d rather do this
anyway, we are going for a jam tomorrow - we have hired out a local rehersal studio to see if it will work or…
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my little cousin lisa has just signed with RCA.
http://www.rcalabelgroup.co.uk/artist_spotlight/lisa_mitchell/
Her music embodies the tenderness of Laura Marling, the
well, I just made a really quick video that shows you how to quickly put together an instrument rack, and fill it with drum samples and have the samples triggered from different notes - I used the example of drum sounds, but as its using simpler it can be any sound you like - you can use it to setup octaves on your keyboard to have different sounds, or to…
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i just made a little video, its another test of visualisation, but this time I used windows media player to generate the visualisations, I was really testing out a new screen capture thing I found caled tipcam - its ok, not the best - it only records at 15 FPS, which is pretty low.
but it does have some nice features - it records direct to flv, so no messing about…
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I’m the most disorganised person I know. but I also get the most done. its not a contradiction in terms, well, not really.
I use google calendar a lot now - I used to use a .txt file and notepad. I still use microsoft onenote every day to put stuff in that i want to do, but never seem to get round to it. So i started making different calendars in…
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everyone’s itunes does it.
you get massive visualisations at gigs.
im experimenting in proper visuals for my gigs - I play ableton in a band.
I have yet to find a visualisation program that takes input from your soundcard and generates the visualisations based on whats coming into that input. I suppose ill have to make my own - or find a way to make winamp ‘listen’ to the mic port - then…
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there are loads and loads of things to remember when setting up mics on a drum-kit.
phase.
watch out for the phase difference on your overheads. if you hear a swooshing noise when you solo the OH mics, then its phasing, also you’ll notice if it goes quiet when you add the left to the right, then its out of phase, reverse the phase on one of the mics, and it’ll spring…
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http://www.iconcertcal.com/
ive been using songkick for a while, infact, i have it integrated into my google calendar.
but this is better. it goes in to your itunes.
install it and then go to view - visualisers - ical
you put in your city, and it brings up new album releases and it brings up the upcoming gigs.
enter your country in the State box (if, like most of the planet, you dont live in the…
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ok, so the hard part is done. youve written, demoed, practiced, arranged in countless different ways, recorded, re-recorded, mixed, re-mixed and finally scrapped and done all that again, you have a handfull of songs. your not happy with them (noone ever is).
now the hard part starts.
Mastering.
I use protools for mastering,you can use anything your familiar with.
the first thing to do is to import all your mixed tracks into their own…
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well, I now have a way to make tutorial videos, and this is really the last in a series of tests for me, this is the test of getting my video from youtube and generating a page with the video in it, its not yet working properly on the homepage - i need to put an if statement in the code to check if the file is a video instead of a picture.
it should be working on the front page as well, and the story should be ok in the categories, but the single page video is borked =P
this video is just me running an ableton session so that i could make a video of it and test everything…
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