The band is Curve, as I am writing this I am listening to their album, Doppelgänger. It's scratching an itch I haven't had scratched for years, but in a better way. Considering how much I like this style, I might use it as an inspiration point in my music making, which I want to get more serious about. The specific itch being scratched is what Type O Negative scrutch in my late teens. The "better ... » Continue Reading
Well, for me, nothing much. Life is still the same for me since last blog, but I've since quit uni. It is what it is. There came a point where I had to accept that I didn't want to aspire towards certain things in life, and that living to chase an aspiration that I didn't even think hard enough about isn't worth it. For me, I accepted that I didn't actually want the degree I was working towards, a... » Continue Reading
Life's in an odd spot for me right now. I can't really think of any major threats to complain about, but it still feels crap. Recently, I've gotten the feeling I'm not doing enough to transition gender. I don't shave often enough and I don't like how it looks, I still haven't learnt how to do makeup, I've not done any voice training, and I've made very little progress in understanding how to sourc... » Continue Reading
On the 29th of April, I tracked the Bass in the same room as the Drums. There was a Fender 1x10 combo amp in one corner, placed on a seat, about half a metre from the wall pointing toward the centre of the room, and a Marshall 1x12 Guitar combo amp (with distortion) on the opposite side, but slightly closer to the middle of one of the walls. I miked the Fender with an SM57 as close as possible to ... » Continue Reading
Second project for my uni Music Technology Studio work was to record a song. It's advisable to cover a song rather than make one, for this task, as you won't get marked on creativity like in the other modules. On the 14th of February this year (yeah yeah, I know. Had nothing to do that day anyway) I got my group to listen to a few songs to decide on what we were gonna cover. So, I asked for sugges... » Continue Reading
I've been working on this DSP (Digital Signal Processing) project for uni, which is specifically an EQ program I made following a tutorial. The barebones version of it (v0.1) is on github, and any youse can download it (it'd currently just have to be compiled locally + you'd also have to provide JUCE library components first). Here be the link to the github repo. You can freely check out the code » Continue Reading
A lot of things have happened in between blogs. I'll run through them as concisely as I can, to avoid this turning into an essay. Continuing from where I left off, my group did a studio session in order to practice the microphone configurations, as well as taking some recordings. We never ended up using these, but I'll refer to that later. We also did a short Guitar recording which we also didn't ... » Continue Reading
Ya gurl be depressed. But ya girl also has deadlines, so I'll be on blog posting soon (for my Music Tech course, especially concerning miking practise that My group's done nearly half a month ago). As for other things, there's certainly a lot on my plate. Including, but not limited to: legal name change, hormones, fitness, learning to program good (and at all), and learning to let myself be more c... » Continue Reading
In this blog I will outline: · Stereo microphone setup techniques and their quirks. · What we (the group I am in for a recording project) will record as demonstration of said stereo miking techniques. · How we intend to go about capturing the performance(s). First, to define a few stereo miking techniques. The (Mid/Side)/Mid-Side technique. » Continue Reading
Hello, this will be the blog I use for the Music Technology projects that I have going on. The [pre] means that this is before I do the rest of the blog entries. Once the entries start, the format will be like: [1-1], [1-2], [1-3], [2-1], [2-2]... And so on. The first number representing the particular assessment, while the second is the numbered entry within the assessment. Formatting aside, hell... » Continue Reading
Jeez, these things have become such an annoying thing to get ones hands on. At this point, I've actually decided to keep my mid-range one and embrace the hipster mechanical keyboard world. Because I might as well type in style. Also, for just a bit less, I could get a locally refurbished mac mini, and that could be indispensable for music production so I might go down that route. » Continue Reading
Some clocking issue with firmware with the GPU I got. Refunded it and switched back to my (barely) trusty old one. Buuut hey, prices are falling at double the rate they crept up! » Continue Reading