Showing posts with label Mastering recorded music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mastering recorded music. Show all posts
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Monday, February 8, 2010
Fear the Albatross!
Crumbville Times:
One day I was in the shower and Schmootzie was singing an awful song. Listen to the "Albatross Song." He sang it to anyone who would listen. Actually he sang it to anyone within 10 feet of him. He sang it out the car window. He sang it to his parents. He sang it to his 97 year old grandmother who has lived through 2 depressions. I thought that with all of her wisdom she would have something to say. She said, "I don't like it. Please don't do that again."
Somehow, Schmootzie didn't even know what an albatross looked like. He imagined it to be a menacing giant bird that spreads doom and evil. It's more evil then a blue jay. It's basically a flying death machine.
Here is an albatross picture for your viewing pleasure:
One day I was in the shower and Schmootzie was singing an awful song. Listen to the "Albatross Song." He sang it to anyone who would listen. Actually he sang it to anyone within 10 feet of him. He sang it out the car window. He sang it to his parents. He sang it to his 97 year old grandmother who has lived through 2 depressions. I thought that with all of her wisdom she would have something to say. She said, "I don't like it. Please don't do that again."
Somehow, Schmootzie didn't even know what an albatross looked like. He imagined it to be a menacing giant bird that spreads doom and evil. It's more evil then a blue jay. It's basically a flying death machine.
Here is an albatross picture for your viewing pleasure:
Upon some research, I discovered that Schmootzie wasn't insane. At least, not that insane. An albatross is often a metaphor for doom and gloom or a "wearisome burden." The following passage is from Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner." Hope you enjoy...
- Ah ! well a-day ! what evil looks
- Had I from old and young !
- Instead of the cross, the Albatross
- About my neck was hung.
Friday, January 22, 2010
Downloads pt. 2
Finally, the sequel to that piece I did on DJ Shadow and Downloading...
Most of you can recall the diatribe Shadow wrote on downloading. Not all musicians share his perspective on the music industry. For example look at Z-Trip:
Sunday, January 17, 2010
Gucci Mane
I'm sure some of you already have this, but here's another freebie from the Mad Decent folks. Say what you will about the DJ...It's Diplo Presents: (Free Gucci) Best of the Cold War Mixtapes.
Tracklisting:
1.Danger’s Not A Stranger (Diplo Remix)
2.Dope Boy (Bird Peterson Remix)
3.Excuse Me (Memory Tapes Remix)
4.No No No (Brodinski & Monsieur Monsieur Remix)
5.Frowny Face (Douster Remix)
6.Frowny Face (Emynd Remix feat Playboy Tre)
7.Im Expectin (Teenwolf Remix)
8.Boi (Zomby Remix)
9.My Shadow (Salem Remix)
10.Excuse Me (Diplo Remix)
11.Photo Shoot (Flying Lotus Remix)
12.I Be Everywhere (Mumdance Remix)
13.I Be Everywhere (DZ Remix)
14.Im The Shit (Benzi & Willy Joy Remix)
15.Break Yourself (Diplo Remix feat Lil B)
You can download it for FREE here
바나나
Tracklisting:
1.Danger’s Not A Stranger (Diplo Remix)
2.Dope Boy (Bird Peterson Remix)
3.Excuse Me (Memory Tapes Remix)
4.No No No (Brodinski & Monsieur Monsieur Remix)
5.Frowny Face (Douster Remix)
6.Frowny Face (Emynd Remix feat Playboy Tre)
7.Im Expectin (Teenwolf Remix)
8.Boi (Zomby Remix)
9.My Shadow (Salem Remix)
10.Excuse Me (Diplo Remix)
11.Photo Shoot (Flying Lotus Remix)
12.I Be Everywhere (Mumdance Remix)
13.I Be Everywhere (DZ Remix)
14.Im The Shit (Benzi & Willy Joy Remix)
15.Break Yourself (Diplo Remix feat Lil B)
You can download it for FREE here
바나나
Thursday, December 10, 2009
Pt. 4 Mastering:
Talking about mastering to a bunch of none engineers is like talking to kids about sex.
(This isn't super funny, but why they and who did make this??? -schmootzie)
You don't want them to do it but you know that they are going to anyway. To make things worse there are so many horrible tutorials online written by people who do not know what they are doing. Sure if you are mastering music that is made with soft synths you can get away with it because your dealing with perfectly clean audio, but add a vocal to that mix, or any outboard equipment and things start to fall apart.
So what do the pros use? And I am not talking about the hacks that will master a song for 20$'s online but the real pros that can charge anything from 100$'s to 1000$'s a track?
(This isn't super funny, but why they and who did make this??? -schmootzie)
You don't want them to do it but you know that they are going to anyway. To make things worse there are so many horrible tutorials online written by people who do not know what they are doing. Sure if you are mastering music that is made with soft synths you can get away with it because your dealing with perfectly clean audio, but add a vocal to that mix, or any outboard equipment and things start to fall apart.
So what do the pros use? And I am not talking about the hacks that will master a song for 20$'s online but the real pros that can charge anything from 100$'s to 1000$'s a track?
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