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Soon compressed audio codecs are going to sound like this if we don't tickle our spines and start walking proud. Hawk Software - HawkVoice codecs
Of course we can't be a planet of people that stupid. (To make music that compressed). Though we almost started being so.

We may have gotten away with ultra-compression of voice for telecommunication, a phone call back in the 1940s would've sounded like todays am radio stations ...

Another metaphysical type of blog from me, I figure I'd put another one up and if Brandon gets tired of them he'll tell me lol. This one came directly off my site.
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A story frequently told by guru’s to show people the kind of desire they need to have in order to achieve success is as follows:

A boy walks up to an old successful philosopher and says, “I wish to have success like you.”

So the old man tells him to meet him at the lake ...

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For years I had been picking and choosing my battles as far as the music industry goes. For a time I had even left music to record other projects for other people (I don’t think any engineer should only seek music projects). During that time I learned something amazing, I learned that my people skills and my personality more often than not sold people on working with me. I have had the opportunity to book people before they even had the chance to hear a single thing I did. Was it based on reputation, ...

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I gotta say. I've used Alloy and Ozone 4 for years.
After only 2 weeks of using these Waves plugins, I'm just blown away.

Not trying to plug them or anything.. But they're selling a ton of ala carte plugins for $64.

I would highly recommend you check out Waves. All their plugins are free for 14 days. I think my mixes have gotten a lot better in the last 2 weeks, and as importantly, my workflow has increasted rapidly. I'm convinced I can mix the same song in ...

Only doing this because I got what I thought were pretty good reviews on my mix. I'm getting new screen recording software soon for reviews and such. I kind of messed up the ADR but whatever. It isn't as comprehensive as fHumble's blog, but I thought I'd give it a crack. Enjoy!



The mix:
http://forum.recordingreview.com/f14...rf-cker-45094/

So I've been mixing ITB for the past few months and I am starting to notice some differences that may be attributable to analog summing vs Digital summing but there are too many variables to know for sure. I had been mixing fully analog for many months. I was running everything out through my convertors summing through hardware and my console and then recording 2 tracks back into my daw. A few months ago I set up my console so that each channel would be an input plug in on my daw and using my ...

I want to point out that in my situation I have a pretty "mature" collection of gear and plugins. This is an issue of having more than enough food in the fridge and then still deciding to go out to eat. I don't NEED any new toys.

UAD released it's new and improved 1176s http://www.uaudio.com/store/compress...ollection.html. I had no intention of even trying them but I succumb to the temptation. They are better. How much? Well, I can tell you for ...

I've found those cambridge mix rescue things around here as a good excuse to create a harsh little boot camp sort of thing.
Just like in any boot camp where you have to wake up at 6 in the morning and go for a run with the drill sergeant, just that I had to be the sergeant.
The rules of this boot camp, were pretty simple and straight forward, 50 some songs, at least 5 a day and no more than 12 hours to finish mixing um. Any-more time spent on um counts as failure and they'd just get ...

Hi there,

This question came to my mind after having received around as much good than bad criticism in the contest I participated (I’m not at all complaining about that).

I will not discuss techniques here, I will just touch the “psychological” aspect of producing a mix for a contest.

The obvious answer would be: do a killer mix! But that’s not enough, and I would like to share the trap I felt into so that you can avoid them as much as possible.
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Hi RR's fellows.
I just write a (french) article about things to know when you backup datas on CD and wanting to store them for a long time (here is a Google translated version).

Here is the sum up (the last part indeed):
- handle a CD by its edges or its center
- burn at low speed (lowest?)
- store CDs at room temperature, away from light and moisture (in CD box)
- cleaning (if necessary) from center to the outside, with dry cloth ...

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I just love working on different things It was going to re-written and translated, maybe turned into a book, until I noticed this icky cliche for me.
It's just a little thing for a friend, whom happens to be a girl so the whole writing thing was interesting.

Nufatia

Have you ever thought of a simple monotone fact as the one about how you exist. Loneliness, innocents, longing, and love, are what truly affects us.
As in any childs paradise,there is, ...

Your voice is a gateway..

The voice lessons continue.. part 3.

We started off with our ‘earth’ voice, that deep low round sound, working through water and now we’re up to the ‘fire’ voice.
Fire: That’s a very different sound. We focussed a lot on the solar plexus, first you have to find it... that round lumpy core of you just below the ribs. (Apparently some German voice school refers to it as a manta ray shape). It’s like an energy centre for your breath/sound. ...

Over my time spent on the forum, and when collaborating with other engineers I have come to learn that we are very sensitive creatures. That being said, we completely fail to take that into account when dealing with our peers. Recently I have caught myself getting personally offended when an engineer I work with said "if you let me do a stems master of that mix I could take it to the next level." A few things struck me as odd about this statement. I was initially offended because I considered ...

This is a continuation of my blog about mixing Clockwork Clown, the previous episode of which can be found here: Mixing Clockwork Clown - A fHumbling Journey - Part 3 - Guitars

Here is a link to my version of the mix: http://forum.recordingreview.com/f14...ble-mix-45029/

Well, it seems a LOT of mixers/musicians around RecordingReview are BIG into guitars'n'drums - I would put myself into that category as well. I've been a guitarist for 36 years, ...

Challenging project 1

I finished a strange gig. A local theater company needed a pianist to record a very complex score and then play the vocal lines on a separate track so I could make a mix for the production and a mix for them to learn vocal lines. It was a total of 55minutes of recorded music. Piano only. I needed to be able to record quickly so I thought that using a keyboard rather then micing my piano was the right thing to do. I hired a piano player and asked him to bring ...