yyyeeeeeeeee ok
im back. fuck knows why and who cares.
so, i've been working on some sound design stuff lately. actually i've spent the last couple days working on this shit and still not much progress. i kind of want to find an auto tune that does chords.. maybe they all do that. what the hell do i know. anyways so i've been fucking around with resonators and vocoders and convolution reverbs (using tonal stuff as ir's and as the initial thing etc) and.. not really getting a whole lot.
although I have found that edison, that wave editor that comes with fl... is amazing. and you can do this wicked "reel" thing where you scrub through the sample like a record (yeah i know that's not really that interesting) but it actually sounds good. and I guess it's more like a tape than a record cause instead of adjusting the position you adjust the speed... and for some reason it sounds better than any other thing that i've heard that does this, other than real tape/records (actually i think it even sounds kinda cooler than a record).
ok so yeah I'm not the most eloquent blogger but really i think i should mention.. this blog isn't really for you. it's for me. which sounds retarded, I know. "why don't you just keep a journal then?" you may be asking, to which i would not respond... because I would not hear you.
but really i do keep a journal/sketchbook. but I like this because ... i'm an attention whore. and this makes me feel like someone out there is listening, but I cringe when i try to imagine who they are and what they think when they read this. I guess I'm an attention whore in denial.
anyways, i'm working on some new tunes. two new tunes. one is sort of finished. and the other one was finished but now i'm reworking it. been thinking about making depth and space in my tracks a lot lately. i was reading this interview with a producer (i cant remember who or where) and he was talking about songs that sound the same on mp3 as they do on vinyl. i dont want my songs to do that. I want people to hear my music and think to themselves "i would really like to hear that on vinyl". and then when/if they do, i want them to be rewarded.
Also., I probably should have figured this out a long time ago, but if you turn everything down in the mix so it doesn't touch the red, and then put a limiter on it and just bring it down so the highest peak hits -3 ish.. then your track sounds way more bad ass. and crisp. and sexy. and i guess what i'm saying is that i'm all about transients, so when i found out that hitting the limiter too hard gets rid of your transients.. i died a little on the inside. and by a little i mean a lot. and by died i mean an atom bomb exploded in my brain and a tornado mixed with a hurricane in my heart and i was torn to little shred that were then eaten by bugs.
so that's what i've been thinking about.
also im going to apply for a job at the banff center, and to do an internship with chad (i think it's an internship that i'm applying for) somewhere in the states over the summer, and i got an email from someone with the remix the book project inviting me to do some microblogging for them on twitter. so big things. scary things. exciting things.
i'll post the vid that me and rick made for the remix the book thing in my next post.. which will be in a couple seconds.
all the best.. you princes of york, you dukes of i hope you're not reading this,
-greg
