The man with the magic turntables comes back for his third set with Mitchell. His work can be witnessed on his website – 3DJ – a combination 3-Dimensional visual extravaganza and DJ set site. Grab your 3D glasses, turn up the level and get ready for some dancing.
Kilo Studios just got a new Mac Pro. Quick, ask how many cores it has! EIGHT. Now ask how much ram! A TON. This machine is going to run Pro Tools even faster than before, and that translates to better audio for you.
Stephen Smoker, a man of great intensity and passion, is the mind and hands behind the bass guitar on The Drama’s record. The signal chain was a fun one – we went from Stephen’s bass to his amp head, then line out into the console, line out of the console into a mult, took one signal straight from the console and another through the Joemeek SC2.2 Opto Compressor. Blended nicely, the tracks sound great and fit into the mixes just right. Oh, and the performances are GOOD.
Jason from The Drama sings some texture vocals through a little megaphone into a BLUE Dragonfly pointed into the lounge room where a room mic picks up some nice, natural delays.
Oh my, just what the world needs – another blog. Another AUDIO blog. Well, hopefully I can make a good impression on you, provide something fun, interesting, and useful for you to read, and you won’t mind the existence of yet another virtual journal, splayed open for all to read.
I absolutely love audio recording. The process of capturing disturbances in the air, transforming them into electricity, and then storing them, magnetically, on metal coated plastic fascinates me. It’s almost magical, in a way. The same could be said of other media, of course, but nothing can move me the way sound does. No photograph, painting, film, or other visual stimulus can affect me the way something like Chopin’s Nocturne in E Flat Major, Andante, can. Or Mayonaise by The Smashing Pumpkins. Or… well, you get the idea. This is not to say that I can’t appreciate or find value in those other things, of course. Let’s not start on the wrong foot, here.
The purpose of this blog, this website, and even Kilo as a whole, is to help bring creative things into the world. Whether it is directly, maybe by recording an amazing album with a phenomenal band, or indirectly by, say, inspiring said band to use the information from these posts to create its own recording, bringing these things to fruition is the goal, I will be sharing my thoughts on a range of things and all of my writing can be lumped into some sort of categories, perhaps something like:
Reviews of gear, bands, album production/recording
Experiences in the studio
Gear modification
Personal rants and raves
Hello, Chicago. Hello, internet. Hello, world. I hope our friendship grows into something unique.
Let’s record.
-Mitchell