Apr 16, 2012
People are listening to music on iPod earbuds, they’re listening to it on laptop speakers, they’re listening to it on mobile phone speakers.
So that’s what we should use to make our final mix and master decisions on, right ?
Make it sound good on what end users are listening to it on – the lowest common denominator. Simple, right ?
Wrong
Apr 9, 2012
Dither is one of the most widely misunderstood elements of the digital audio chain.
People don’t know what it is, they don’t know when to use it, and they don’t know how.
This post aims to fix that, and make it really simple. But before we get started though, let’s quickly answer a few of the questions.
Jan 11, 2012
You’ve probably guessed by now, but I love prog.
Did I say that out loud ?
Well, it’s true – there doesn’t seem to be much point in denying it any more – after all, Radiohead are one of the biggest bands in the world, and they’re prog, right ?
So while it may not be exactly hip, I don’t think that enjoying progressive rock can be considered quite the crime against music that it once was.
And, being me, one thing I’ve always enjoyed about “progressive” music is that it almost always sounds superb.
Jan 9, 2012
So we know that Peter Gabriel writes and records in a shed – how about David Gilmour ?
Well his studio is on a boat.
And what a boat… well, houseboat. Watch the video and see.
Once you’ve finished wiping the drool off your keyboard, you may be thinking –
“Well it’s pretty bloody obvious why he writes on a boat, Ian – and, if I’d sold 50 million copies of Dark Side Of The Moon, I think I’d record on one, too.”
But stop.
Rewind. Go back.
Listen again to what he says at 3’12″
Click to continue »
Dec 21, 2011
The message of this post is simple, short and sincere. In fact, it could almost be an open letter:
Dear Peter Jackson,
PLEASE ask your audio engineers to stop auto-tuning the dwarves.
Please.
Yours sincerely,
Ian Shepherd
PS. Please…
What the hell am I talking about ? Well, check out the first official trailer for the new film of the “The Hobbit”, above.
It’s a great trailer. As a massive fan of both the books and the films of “Lord Of The Rings”, I’m very excited. But after seeing this trailer, I’m also now very nervous.
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