AprilApr 17 Thursday 08
We had this show last night...
It was pretty awesome.
We debuted a number of new things, including brand-spankin' new versions of Footfalls (featuring the wall of taikos and Elizabeth beating on a large frame drum with a pair of big sticks) and the dance-tastic version of Walk In London. …
FebruaryFeb 24 Sunday 08
Twin Cities
After an early-morning dental cleaning and a hearty pancake breakfast, Jill showed up and we loaded the gear into the Forester. Chuck and e-Liz were already on their way travelling separately.
The drive to Minneapolis is long. It shouldn't seem as log as it …
JanuaryJan 17 Thursday 08
Airborne
Apple released the MacBook Air this week, and the internet is going berzerk about it. Hlaf the 'net is going on about how they want one and it's sexy and so forth, the other is going on about how it will suck because it has no CD drive and whatnot.
I kinda …
JanuaryJan 10 Thursday 08
Collateral Damage In the Loudness War
Rolling stone, bastion of solid music journalism that it is, recently published an article about The Death of High Fidelity, a cursory overview of what audio engineers have come to term "the loudness war" along with a few theories as to its root …
DecemberDec 31 Monday 07
Panorama of the Studio
Here's roughly the final version!
(of course, panorama-fisheying distorts things, but you get the idea. It's not actual 100 feet long and 2 feet wide, as this picture would seem to …
Play-by-play
Now that "Excursions" is about ready to go to mastering, and even though at this point nobody's really heard it but me, Dr. Goedken, and my very patient girlfriend, it seems like now's as good a time as any to detail the backstories behind the album. Track by …
DIY Tubular drum triggers
as the proud owner of a used Alesis DM-5 I'd toyed with the idea of using the trigger
inputs in the back for something. Honestly, since I got the thing in 2004,
there was little other reason to use it - it was old and the internal sounds …
Play-by-play
Now that "Excursions" is about ready to go to mastering, and even though at this point nobody's really heard it but me, Dr. Goedken, and my very patient girlfriend, it seems like now's as good a time as any to detail the backstories behind the album. Track by …
Panorama of the Studio
Here's roughly the final version!
(of course, panorama-fisheying distorts things, but you get the idea. It's not actual 100 feet long and 2 feet wide, as this picture would seem to …
Liveblogging Reverence (kinda)
(Dan tried this a few years ago - at the first Reverence, actually - on the ND Blog and I thought it was clever. So I'm appropriating the style.)
Fanale's giving us an intro. I'd better rub his head for luck. Ew, sweaty.
Shit it's hot already. We haven't even …
DIY Tubular drum triggers
as the proud owner of a used Alesis DM-5 I'd toyed with the idea of using the trigger
inputs in the back for something. Honestly, since I got the thing in 2004,
there was little other reason to use it - it was old and the internal sounds …
Review - Blaqk Audio "CexCells"
Davey Havok is my age, and he grew up listening to the same sort of stuff I did. It's really no secret, despite the surprise of several million american teenagers - the B-side to Miss Murder was a cover of the Morrissey B-side "Jack the Ripper" (although you …
Liveblogging Reverence (kinda)
(Dan tried this a few years ago - at the first Reverence, actually - on the ND Blog and I thought it was clever. So I'm appropriating the style.)
Fanale's giving us an intro. I'd better rub his head for luck. Ew, sweaty.
Shit it's hot already. We haven't even …
Yet another blog update
With some considerable gnashing of teeth, I've got the blog here upgraded to Movable Type 4. I eventually plan to start using some of MT4's more advanced features. I gotta get the RSS feed back up and running too.
Actually, the upgrade wasn't so bad in terms …
Review - Blaqk Audio "CexCells"
Davey Havok is my age, and he grew up listening to the same sort of stuff I did. It's really no secret, despite the surprise of several million american teenagers - the B-side to Miss Murder was a cover of the Morrissey B-side "Jack the Ripper" (although you …
Yet another blog update
With some considerable gnashing of teeth, I've got the blog here upgraded to Movable Type 4. I eventually plan to start using some of MT4's more advanced features. I gotta get the RSS feed back up and running too.
Actually, the upgrade wasn't so bad in terms …
