Archive for May, 2007
Sunday, May 27th, 2007
Every Monday I highlight free plugins new and old that are worth checking out. See all posts in the Free Plugin Of The Week Series.
I’ve been waiting for someone to do this and finally we have a plugin to satisfy the need for more cowbell. A collaboration between Audiofudge and De La Mancha brings forth Dynamite Cowbell VST.
“dynamite cowbell brings you more cowbell than even Gene Frenkle can deliver”
6 cowbells mapped to midi keys
5 velocity layers
close and room mic levels
damping control
5 bonus digibells
1 cow
http://www.delamancha.co.uk/dynamite_cowbell.htm
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Sunday, May 27th, 2007
Who: Verstaerker
What: Analogien
Sounds like: Industrial strength audio destruction
http://www.verstaerker-music.net/
Analogien is an abusive piece of work, listening to it is an a real test of your endurance. It may cause nightmares and migraines. I mean these comments in a good way though, because I think it was the intention for the music to be harsh. It is not random noise, it is music, burnt to a crisp. It has dynamics, it has a defined structure, it was carefully created, assembled and manipulated. It flows through varying degrees of distortion, blasts of static, and has copious use of resonant filters. It is not outright chaos, it is a collection of finely crafted noisescapes provoking images of hell on earth.
If you think you can handle it, order direct from Verstaerker’s website.
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Sunday, May 20th, 2007
One of the biggest annoyances for mix engineers, is unorganised DAW sessions. They hate it, it completely grinds the progress to a halt, because they have to spend a couple hours just organizing track names, unused files, figureing out which session on the drive is actually the one they are to mix. There is absolutely no reason to have an unorganised session. Label and clean up your session as you work. Many engineers will refuse to work on the session until it is organised. So if you are planning on sending you tracks to a mix AE, follow these guidelines written by top engineers and producers such as Roger Nichols, Bob Ludwig, Tony Maserati, Mick Guzauski, Charles Dye, and Eric Schilling.
http://www.grammy.com/Recording_Academy/Producers_And_Engineers/Guidelines/
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Sunday, May 20th, 2007
Every Monday I highlight free plugins new and old that are worth checking out. See all posts in the Free Plugin Of The Week Series.
This week, the cool new plugin I came across was keFIR by Piotr “Habib” Pyrzanowski which is a zero-latency FIR filter effect. Basically you load in an impulse response (a wav recording of a real space or piece of equipment, but you can use any sound you want), the incoming waveform will be conformed to the characteristics of the impulse response.
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Wednesday, May 16th, 2007
Who: Fugue State
What: Daydream Believer
Style: electronic/ambient/experimental
When I got this in my email last week, I have to admit I cringed at the album title, and my wife pointed and laughed. But really, the music is pretty good, much better than the album title ;) The music is composed by Kevin Breidenbach in energyXT and a lot of plugins. The sounds he creates for these tracks are great, but the arrangements unfortunately don’t take you anywhere. Daydream Believer is a collection of songs that didn’t fit with Kevin’s other work, the styles vary from ambient to IDM, I have a feeling that they were composed over a period of a few years, because they don’t all fit together in to an album well. The tracks I liked most were Sex, Guns & Caffeine, because it has a bit of a Skinny Puppy feel, and Fixate, which was relaxing but also had a head bobbing beat.
The full album and remixes are available here: http://fstate.skincontact.com/audio.htm
More of Kevin’s music can be found here http://www.myspace.com/skincontact
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