My blogging has been ever more irregular.. must try to rectify that.
Studio update: all lights are in, sink in, wife’s side workbench is in and just started to beeswax my worktop to put in asap. In terms of storage, I’m winging it a little as I’m still learning how the space feels. Getting there, though.
Recorded a vocal for the Bandish Projekt with Hannah a couple of weeks back: that’s being released soon.
Day job wise, it never ceases to amaze me how stressful and time consuming it is at this time of year, but the end of year gig on friday at Upper brown Street was a nice break from the marking. I did some live sound for it and enjoyed that for the main part.
Last thur and fri I wend to the Roland Academy conference in Walsall: nice campus and ace gear. Had a play on an Allen and Heath live desk (..erm, so not a Roland one!),there was a Gaia demo (we have one but I’ve never even turned it on!). There were some live video desks too and a really user friendly mix extraction tool called R Mix
..seems very useful for Listening Skills type lessons.. you know, analysing classic tracks, extracting the kick, the lead vox, etc, as well as a great remix tool. Worth a further peek.
..new music..
This is ace (but album’s patchy)
The new Saint Etienne album’s great.. this track sums up the warm loveliness of the whole album: especially if you’re over 30
New Hot Chip album is a bit disappointing: some good stuff on there, but feels like words were crammed to backing tracks in some cases.
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