Haha! Looka what I got for my birthday from my folks! Totally unexpected and totally small! I’m gonna have to study up on how to play this tiny thing so that I can maybe have it in a song or two for my next album.
Well, hello there peoples. Let me start off with a somewhat belated Happy New Year to you. I hope everyone is doing well and in good spirits as we turn the corner into 2009. Unlike last year, I didn’t slip up writing old dates on my checks this time. Score!
Anyway, things are moving both forward and backward currently, but all the while remain somewhat stable. I ran into some technical problems with my computer lately which has caused me some grief and headache, and has even delayed some things I had planned, but I’ve been able to get most things back in order. I’m slowly coming back ’round to this blog now that I’ve finally completed my album, which some of you received for xmas. I sincerely hope you guys enjoy it as it’s quite personal to me. Anyone who didn’t receive a copy may give a listen also. I’ve stuck it in the player on the front page. It may get moved in the future after my massive redesign/relaunch is complete, but for now that’s where it’ll be. **EDIT— there seems to be a problem with the player. Apparently, Firefox and Mac OSX are having Java issues, so if you’re a Mac and all you see is a black box instead of the songs, please be patient. I’m trying to figure it out.** Continue »
Hola, peoples! Hope everyone is hangin’ in there despite the several crises going on. Things are movin’ along quite nicely here. I know I keep saying this, but the album is very close to completion. It’s pretty much down to writing the last half of my last guitar lead and then doing some minor level tweaks. Strangely, the songs are sounding different on a cd in the car than on the computer. But thanks to the advancement of Roxio’s Toast 8, I can throw a quick equalizer on the songs instead of having to go back and tweak the actual song files in Cubase and re-exporting them. That may be Greek to a lot of you, but trust me, it’s wicked awesome! Continue »
I’d definitely buy this new audio restoration software from iZotope! With this incredibly smart piece of programming, you can easily rid all your old recordings and such of those pesky pops, clicks, hums, background noise and pretty much isolate nearly any other noise you don’t want in the sound file. I could most certainly use this in my own recording, but alas, they want $350 US for this ever so sweet program. I suppose I’ll just stick to my standard workaround techniques, which produce no where near the quality of this thing. Anyway, check out the sample videos! If you’re a musical tech geek like myself, I’m sure you’ll appreciate it. If you’re not, well, it’s still cool to see what can be done to repair all those scratchy songs you have in your library.
hey gang. hope everyone had a pleasant holiday and all that jazz. i managed to cruise on down to Mobile to visit the family and had a splendid time. somehow the journey didn’t seem quite as mind-numbing this time. usually that long, boring-ass stretch of 65 seems to go on and on and you find yourself readjusting every 10 minutes. but everything went rather smoothly. regardless of the fact that everyone was going a good 15-20 mph over the speed limit. never have i felt more like an elderly on the road. Continue »