Since I had to abandon my first studio in Beijing due to the building being damaged from electrical fire, I’ve had to build a new studio. I’ve chosen the location where I originally planned to set up the studio when I first decided to open one in Beijing, Real Life at Hegezhuang village. It’s an […]
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As i mentioned in my last blog, I’m moving to Beijing China, and setting up a fantastic, world class studio there. It will be called Pro Soul Studios Beijing, in affiliation with my record label, Pro Soul Alliance. It’s large a 3 room facility, professionally built by foreign expertise flown into the country along with
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In moving the studio recently and consolidating things, preparing for a more mobile production setup, I discovered some interestng items from my past. Over the years, I’ve been so busy pretty much non stop that I haven’t had a chance to go through old boxes and files that have been laying around. Well over the
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I’ve been checking out some of the music apps out there for the iPhone, and my first thought was wouldn’t it be cool if someone could create something to emulate amazing but expensive music hardware like the innovative Tenori-On, and the Roland TR series machines. Well I searched, and there they were! For Tenori-On like
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Music Legend Herbie Hancock plays Fairlight CMI, Quincy Jones watches. Great insights after the funky grooves about music and technology…
Herbie Hancock plays Fairlight CMI, Quincy Jones watches Read More »
In my last post I talked about how the quality and natural dynamics of music is being destroyed through digital software technology that allows unnatural processing of audio. But there is a much greater threat to the quality of audio that has been the subject of my thoughts for some time now: The way we
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For some time now there has been a debate about how modern audio mastering techniques have created music that is louder than it usually would be at the expense of the normal dynamics of the music. Andrew Dubber blogged about it here with a video that demonstrates the issue: The process of making tracks louder
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Actually I never dust off my old hardware synthesizers, there’s something about an old electronic thing like that with dust on it that is appealing… It isn’t so good for the hardware thought, the dust gets in the pots and sliders and you get all kind of crackles and noise when you turn the knobs
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Check out the latest and most popular design for electronic composers to perform music, it’s called the Monome: [youtube F0A8xR8ieek nolink] What you can’t see in this video is he has it hooked up to a laptop with different instruments, loops and patterns prepared. I understood how it worked after seeing it because i have
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Lately I’ve been making a lot of dark and intense non music related posts on here. What can I say, we’re living in the middle of the decline of the old world order… So here’s something more music and sound related! There is lot’s of great new music and audio software out now, and I
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