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From the category archives:
Recording
Knocked another big item off my checklist of things to do this week – finished mixing the new Ol’ Bill Dollar album, “Grab Your Gun and Bring in the Cat.” This is the third full length album from Bill. Here’s a little taste of the new songs.
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I was inspired to get back to work on the album after going to a discussion hosted at Drexel University with engineer Kevin Killen (U2, Peter Gabriel, Paula Cole, Elvis Costello). It was a great presentation. He brought along his computer with a Pro Tools HD rig, and opened up actual sessions to demonstrate what he’s doing. His approach is so simple but so effective – get good sounds on the way in and you won’t need to be so heavy handed with plugin processing at mix time. While he tracks through a nice console, he mixes entirely in the box, which is part of the reason the discussion was so enjoyable. He’s an extremely successful engineer who’s embraced digital audio instead of being stuck on tape for the cool factor, or whatever else causes people to love tape so much. I’ll take the Massey Tape Head over a tape machine any day.
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Best wishes this holiday season to anyone who reads this. It was quite a year, to say the least. I’ve been looking forward to Christmas vacation for quite a while… I plan on sleeping as much as humanly possible.
Started working with Solas again, and I’m just about wrapped on their new site design. The site is live, though there’s a few more nuts and bolts to screw down. They’re gearing up for their album release in early February, and wanted to get a fresh look. Though it took a while, it would have taken infinitely longer without WordPress! On top of the new look and feel, the site sports tighter social networking integration thanks to ShareThis and other plugins.
The goal has generally remained the same: keep the design simple, modern, and easy to navigate. For the band, it needs to be simple for them to update (which is why I chose a WordPress backend to begin with). Thanks to the mobile WordPress apps for iPhone and BlackBerry, a quick update is a snap–essential for folks that hardly have a minute to sit between gigs.
And, looking forward to 2010…
Musically: I’m almost finished mixing the new album from Ol’ Bill Dollar, and mixes for batsupsidedown should be finalized in January (fingers crossed).
In the interwebs: I’ll be making a website for The Cascia Center set to be built at Broad and Ellsworth streets. Prepare for a new media blitz.
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