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Umbra (House Remix) 128KBPS

Sun, 27 Jan 2008 23:00:33 -0800

Robot 128KBPS

Sun, 27 Jan 2008 22:57:45 -0800

Berliner 128KBPS

Sun, 27 Jan 2008 22:56:11 -0800

Umbra (Down Tempo Remix) 128KBPS

Sun, 27 Jan 2008 22:53:42 -0800

I'm pretty much done with the DNB

Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:56:17 -0800

I know I have said this before, but this time I really mean it. I think the biggest problem with it is that it is so far removed from being enjoyable for me. I find most tracks are boring. They are only interesting for about 2 minutes and then drone on. I would have to [...]

The Trumpet Song Rejected

Sun, 04 Jan 2009 22:46:17 -0800

If you don't know, I wrote a song called "The Trumpet Song." It's in the dub plate section if you want to hear it. It's one of my favorite songs that I have written. It took a long time to write. Originally it was something else but after a few months of working on it [...]

How to create a mono channel in Kontakt 2/3

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 02:06:15 -0800

I got an email today that asked how to do this so here's a quick tutorial that I wrote. 1. Open the output section in Kontakt by clicking the output button on the top. In Kontakt 3 it's the button with 3 sliders on it.

Jack Kerouac Blog and My Memory of "On The Road"

Sat, 13 Dec 2008 04:33:12 -0800

I got a comment on my post about Hemingway from Rick Dale. He's the author of "The Beat Handbook." I checked out his Kerouac obsessed blog. It's really interesting. Lots of little tidbits about Kerouac mixed in with his opinions and life talk. I do recommend that you check it out if you can.

Mystery of Staples Halo mix

Thu, 11 Dec 2008 03:38:07 -0800

If you been following me, you would know that I been handed the task of mixing the vocals for Staplemouth's forthcoming album. For the past week I been working on this one track called Halo. I started mixing it and then I ended up resetting everything after the second session.

Parallel Compression

Thu, 11 Dec 2008 03:38:07 -0800

Today we are going to discuss parallel compression (New York compression). I'm a pretty big fan of this technique. The main reason I'm a drummer and I like to beef up the drums with it.

Ernest Hemingway is boring but I still love him

Thu, 11 Dec 2008 03:38:06 -0800

I'm a fan of Hemingway (except for that book about some guy and a fish). I remember the first book book I read by him. It was "The Green Hills of Africa." It was a first edition stolen from the Harlem hospital library. How about that for strangeness? Perhaps it was not stolen, maybe it [...]

The morning of parallel nothing!

Thu, 04 Dec 2008 20:51:38 -0800

Last night I was flipping through the old Mastering Audio book by Bob Katz and happened across the section about parallel compression. I like to use it to beef up my drums, however in the mastering concept of parallel compression the compressor is virtually in permanent extreme gain reduction due to the high threshold that [...]

How to set a compressor

Thu, 04 Dec 2008 01:14:00 -0800

When I used to live in Hawaii, there was this certain drum n bass dj who came up to me and asked, "What setting do you use when you use a compressor?" I responded by saying, "Well it all depends on what I am compressing." He then seemed rather irritated that I didn't divulge some [...]

Promotion Blah

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 05:46:56 -0800

Promotion Blah! Well it's about that time again to start the album promotion machine. If you didn't know I have a cd that I collaborated with nomar slevik, coming out on December 3rd. It will be up on here shortly. Have not got around to really getting things sorted for the website. Been pretty busy. [...]

Busy week ahead

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 00:17:39 -0800

I got a pretty busy couple of weeks ahead of me. In no particular order I have to work (blah), finish up some graphics, start a new project and do some promotion. First thing that needs to get done is finish the design of the "Stonehenge Diaries" cd art. Almost done with that. I just have [...]

Presidential Election and me

Thu, 06 Nov 2008 02:10:20 -0800

Yesterday I spent all morning and the early afternoon watching the presidential election results on NHK. It was nice to see Obama win. I'm not the only one that wanted that. Pretty much the whole world wanted it. So yay to Obama and hopefully he can get things turned around. Besides that it's been a pretty [...]

How to use Kontakt 3 in Logic Studio

Thu, 30 Oct 2008 02:36:01 -0700

Logic 8 has made it easier, to use multi-timbral and multi-output instruments. You no longer need to open up the environment to route and create auxiliary channels in order to use multi-out plugins. This tutorial assumes that you know how to load samples in to Kontakt 3 and assign the sample to the different [...]

Finally got some inspiration for Cyrus' drums

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 06:03:14 -0700

Yay! I finally got some inspiration for the drums for the track that Cyrus FX sent me. About a month (more like 2 or 3) I was talking to Cyrus about maybe doing some kind of track together. We talked it over and he decided to send me something that he thought could use some [...]

New album coming soon

Sat, 18 Oct 2008 04:16:39 -0700

I have a new album comingout soon on SIQ Records. It was supposed to be released next month but due to a problem with one of the songs it will be pushed back. The main problem was that we (me, nomar slevik and raystar) were unhappy with the way one of the songs turned out. [...]

Finished a few mixdowns

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 22:05:30 -0700

I finished a few mixodowns this morning and sent them off to Nomar Slevik. I felt like as i progressed through those mixdowns, they were getting harder. By the time I did the lastone today, I had no confidence in what I was doing. Everytime I listened to the track I just felt like something [...]