Archive for the 'Production Notes' Category

Reminder: Backup nightly

Monday, February 27th, 2006

In what I can only describe as the most horiffic moment in the studio, Saturday night while installing the software for the new akai mpd16 and the drivers for the oxygen 8 (so that it would also function over usb), the hard drive errored. Essentially the mac equivalent of the file allocation table got […]

Dropping Sketches for a Framework

Thursday, January 19th, 2006

So on monday I didn’t have to go into work, and as a result I spent a decent amount of time in the studio. About three years ago I was going to do a project with a couple people and put down the initial framework for a track and the resulting recordings I got […]

“See I crumbled my bread along the way…”

Wednesday, January 4th, 2006

There is something well beyond words that I feel when a track that starts out sounding like a concrete sketch becomes a fully baked composition. I believe the saying is that “the devil is in the details” and for me, nowhere are those details more important than in music. It’s probably just as […]

The Left Hand of Punishment

Wednesday, January 4th, 2006

“The Punisher” has been updated after a rather long weekend in the studio. On average we spent at least ten hours hunkered down in front of the console working striving to finish as many tracks as possible. After about five or six hours I have to step away for a couple hours most […]

The Journey of Production

Wednesday, December 14th, 2005

Well originally I’d posted that “Travelers and Tourists” was completed, but after lots of listening, it could still use some more work. Xipetotec concurs.

Current Tracks in ProductionLast Update: 5/10/06

  • Early Earthlings
    • Last update: 5/10/06
    • 6m 18s | 8.65 MB
    • studio mix
  • Riding A Thorazine Wave
    • Last update: 5/10/06
    • 6m 13s | 8.53 MB
    • studio mix
  • Travelers and Tourists
    • Last update: 5/10/06
    • 6m 25s | 8.83 MB
    • studio mix
  • Simulated Stimulation
  • Dragon Droppings
    • Last update: 4/23/06
    • 5m 24s | 7.67 MB
    • studio mix
  • Ampullae of Lorenzini
    • Last update: 2/13/06
    • 5m 08s | 7.05 MB
    • studio mix
  • Donkey Years
    • Last update: 12/05/05
    • 6m 06s | 8.38 MB
    • studio mix coming soon
  • The Derivation of Westminster Bells
    • Last update: 12/19/05
    • 2m 20s | 3.21 MB
    • studio mix
  • Learning to Let Go
  • The Throb
    • Last update: ??/??/??
    • ?m ??s | ?.??MB
    • instrumental (coming soon)
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