Archive for the 'Music Production/Studio Recording' Category

Workin’ (well semi-workin’) in studio tonite

« 4 November 2010 | 23:27 | Indie Artists, Music Production/Studio Recording | No Comments »

The CD project is moving forward, though Dan and I have two more songs to record, and a few to mix. I’ve laid out a schedule of things to be done, but right now, I’m playing around with these In the meantime, I pulled out of the vault, a house music track that was originally […]



A Day In The Life #1 – The Lab – 23 Oct 10: Yamaha TG77 Synth Strings

« 23 October 2010 | 22:14 | Logic/Logic Pro/Logic Pro 8, Music Production/Studio Recording | 3 Comments »

Just playing around with some of my rackmount synths, the Yamaha TG77, seeing what sounds I can incorporate into the balance of the CD project, as well as other ones. I recently read a quote by Brian Transeau, remixer, film scorer, electronic musician and composer, in the October 2010 issue of Future Music: “I have […]



Sampling and Music Composition- A “Fresh” Perspective. Pt. 3: Presently Speaking

« 19 October 2010 | 11:56 | Music Production/Studio Recording, Technology, The Music Industry | 5 Comments »

Native Instruments’ Maschine Crew, Hello. Here I am, back with the final installment of this blog post. Took the day off (Happy Birthday to me), sitting in Starbucks, finishing up this blog post. Listening to Foreign Exchange’s “Authenticity” (superb new release by Nic, Phonte, Zo, Yah, etc). Nice day so far. I’ve had time to […]



Sampling and Music Composition – A “Fresh” Perspective. Pt 2 – Sampling/Interpolation/Legalities

« 27 September 2010 | 11:19 | Music Production/Studio Recording, Technology, The Music Industry | No Comments »

Photo Credit: Akai MPC 2500 w/black pads by: ficusrock Greetings crew… Hope all is well with you. I’ve finally gotten around to Pt 2 of this series. In Part 1, I gave a brief history of sampling and, specifically, the tools used in the early days; and the explosion of sampling in the 80’s and […]



Sampling and Music Composition- A “Fresh” Perspective. Pt. 1: In The Beginning

« 16 September 2010 | 8:44 | Music Production/Studio Recording, Technology, The Music Industry | 2 Comments »

Akai MPC 2000 Photo Credit: Dan Medhurst Welcome readers. I hope this post finds you well. The topic of this post is something I’ve been meaning to write about for quite some time. Sampling has been a long time tool and methodology of music composition. I’m almost certain everyone reading this post is familiar, in […]



Sampling Tips From The Pros

« 12 September 2010 | 23:00 | Logic/Logic Pro/Logic Pro 8, Music Production/Studio Recording | No Comments »

Samples everywhere, User made, professionally sold. I feel a big blog post coming on. A few more sections of research to do. In the mean time, check out this article from Music Radar. Me, I’m going back to the music production computer next to me…I just loaded some samples into Logic’s EXS24 ::: oceans of […]



What’s Happening – Current Music Projects

« 12 September 2010 | 20:48 | Music Production/Studio Recording, Technology | No Comments »

What’s up everyone? Hope all is well with u. Sitting in The Lab this rainy Sunday evening, thinking about the various projects I’m working on, and testing out a new WP plugin called Twitter Tools (which will hopefully work to auto-post this, since Bird Feeder was not updated to work with Twitter’s recent OAuth configuration). […]



The Most Impossible Plan (groove7 outerbanks edit rmx)/The Basic Condition of Life – Skatterbrain

« 3 September 2010 | 12:29 | Logic/Logic Pro/Logic Pro 8, Music Production/Studio Recording | 4 Comments »

Greetings crew. Hope all is well. A lot of you here heard me profess my love for Twitter, and for those of you who haven’t, here it goes: I love Twitter for its easy of networking and especially information push to me about things I’m most interested in. Via an actual person or a website, […]



Cross Country Collective (C3) – This is How We Do It (leveraging the ‘net/making music)

« 11 August 2010 | 22:15 | Logic/Logic Pro/Logic Pro 8, Music Production/Studio Recording, Technology | No Comments »

Some of you know about a remote collaboration I’m involved in called C3. C3 is the brainchild of Fave and The Big La. Here’s the scoop in case you haven’t seen it: I am pleased to share with you the debut single, “Give it 2 Ya” from our upcoming EP, Contempojazzsoulhop. Produced by The Big […]



“Give It To Ya” goes international!

« 21 June 2010 | 9:53 | Indie Artists, Music Production/Studio Recording | 2 Comments »

Some of you received an email from me about two weeks ago about a single put out by a group I’m in called C3. Here’s the scoop in case you haven’t seen it: I am pleased to share with you the debut single, “Give it 2 Ya” from our upcoming EP, Contempojazzsoulhop. Produced by The […]