tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30505113264653798802024-02-08T11:29:05.727-08:00make.better.musicbetter living through good musicMBMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02485501300193266835noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3050511326465379880.post-62819609422217454162007-01-18T11:29:00.000-08:002007-01-18T11:33:57.209-08:00MediaLab/SeattleGreetings party people! This post is to announce a new venture - a Pro Tools training facility, MediaLab/Seattle. We've been working on this idea for over a year, and we're finally ready to debut! We'll be teaching Pro Tools 101 and 110 from the fantastic Digidesign curriculum. Please tell everyone you know, whether they own a Pro Tools rig or are thinking of buying one soon. Our Students get a MBMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02485501300193266835noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3050511326465379880.post-61648947946233212922006-12-30T06:17:00.000-08:002006-12-30T06:21:45.128-08:00Archiving for DummiesOK, it's been an interesting Winter, weather-wise, but we're back with a vengeance! Here then is the proposed set of guidelines for backing up your audio data in 2007 (aka - archiving). Enjoy, and happy storage to you!ARCHIVING 101Archiving audio data, (backing up or copying a project’s audio data onto some medium in addition to the original hard drive that it was recorded on) is critically MBMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02485501300193266835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3050511326465379880.post-22186718653149953732006-11-08T06:49:00.000-08:002006-11-08T06:56:10.706-08:00How do I store my music?I write music. I also record and produce other people’s music. A lot of the time it’s really good music and it would be nice if it were around beyond the life of a CD. What would happen if the only CD copy of your music got scratched or lost? What happens 10 years from now when we’re no longer using shiny plastic discs to store music or video, and manufacturers no longer make the hardware on MBMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02485501300193266835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3050511326465379880.post-50823450896201367472006-11-03T05:24:00.000-08:002006-11-03T05:25:21.885-08:00After the dilemmaHappy Friday!I figured this week's topic would spawn some interesting discussion. There have been a number of folks on either side of the equation emailing me with possible solutions.Additional notes -• It was pointed out that a modern digital summing bus has the capacity for 1500dB of dynamic range. I'm on the hunt to find out how that impacts track count, stay tuned.• I like mixing in the box MBMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02485501300193266835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3050511326465379880.post-20190396141688179492006-11-02T05:34:00.000-08:002006-11-02T06:42:55.483-08:00Dilemma - Mixing In The Box part 3Welcome to November! It's raining like... well, it's raining like everyone thinks it does in Seattle. That's OK, I work in a nice warm room with tube gear and no windows.To briefly recap - mixing within Pro Tools wasn't working for me, so I bussed out into an analog console and that sounded better. Why did it sound better? This is the subject of much debate and more than a few well written MBMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02485501300193266835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3050511326465379880.post-34847299567801037422006-10-31T05:45:00.000-08:002006-10-31T06:18:08.631-08:00Dilemma - Mixing In The Box part 2The solution to yesterday's dilemma came forth during dinner at AES in San Francisco with a renowned LA studio owner/engineer (whom I shall refer to as AS). We were discussing Pro Tools and the various controllers available for same, which evolved into the subject of mixing in the box. AS related that he had not had great luck doing it, and that he split out all his tracks into a vintage Neve MBMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02485501300193266835noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3050511326465379880.post-50647723904886639222006-10-30T07:20:00.001-08:002006-10-30T10:35:44.060-08:00Dilemma - Mixing In The BoxSo, I'm in the middle of mixing an album for a AAA artist, and we're stuck on one song in particular. It's a full-band Rock track, and we're combining two different takes (done at different times with different players) together to make a "best of" take that really rocks. We have two sets of everything, including drums (20 tracks of drums!). Though we're not using everything all the time, there MBMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02485501300193266835noreply@blogger.com0