Over at Gorilla vs Bear, some love for the Unfollow Blue Tapes release:
“this release is beautiful, hypnotic and makes me feel better when i am underslept. beautiful dance floor abstractions. — Katie Gately“
Kikimora Tapes releases this 2016 compilation today. You can get it online or as a limited edition orange cassette. I did post-production balancing (toy mastering) for this release and it was fun working with contributions from all over North America and Europe. Some dark, interesting electronic music here.
I put together this active DI recently based on a design published by retired Swedish sound engineer Bo Hansén. The result is a device that sounds better than commercial products that cost significantly more than the price of parts.
I worked on this release doing a little mixing/editing/pseudo-mastering. Released in England by Blue Tapes. Write-up here: http://www.20jazzfunkgreats.co.uk/wordpress/cats/unfollow/
Moving is a hassle but it’s good to have an excuse to rethink the way a workspace is set up and laid out. My studio stuff has to share a room with our living room at home but fortunately the new living room is 26ft long, giving me more room than I’ve ever had to play.
I was asked to put together a couple splitter boxes for distributing headphone signals. [more inside]
My previous equipment rack was a 4u box from Gator Cases that cost me at least $100. This is such a steal.
“Vowels tell the listener that a person is talking. Consonants tell us what they’re saying.”
Some time last year I was speaking to the father of one of my best friends, who recently retired from a long career as a sound and stage engineering (Four Seasons Centre, Princess of Wales Theatre, etc.). I was looking for advice on getting my career rolling. Unknown to me, in the early 70s he and a few friends partnered up to open a studio in Kensington Market. While this acquaintance no longer has any … Read the rest “Kensington Sound”
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