Sorry for the tardiness of my reply, been busy working on a few different projects. Lecturing is a good way to make regular money yeah, I got my job through a guy I played session bass for and it came totally out of the blue!
I'll be sure to start picking peoples brains the more time I get to surf around here, as you say it's all about the connections you make!
Hi Matt,
At the minute I'm doing a lot of lecturing in sound recording techniques and computer music systems. In between that I'm working on the music for an independent Xbox game by Retroburn Games, its a helicopter based first person shooter, recording musicians and bands at my own studio and composing music that I hope to get into some libraries at some point. Hoping to meet some people on here for advice and networking as I'm relatively new to the video game music and sound library game! I'll hopefully have some samples up soon.
Ben
Hello Matt. Thanks for the welcome.
I work as a freelance in Madrid, doing moslty editing works for multimedia courses. I had this job about a year ago where I had the oportunity to work with DP. Though I'm not an expert and I mostly worked with audio I'm afraid I can't help you with your doubt about quantising. But I must say that, though I think DP is a very solid software for audio it was horrible for me to work with MIDI, basically because of the environment, and I did remember sometimes it used to caused me some troubles I wasn't able to repair. But it seems to dissappeare when I restarted. I had never solved them and I didn't want to make a big deal out of it because I didn't use MIDI often. I'm sorry I can't help. I'll tell you if I find out.
No I live in Seattle now and I'm actually from Brooklyn but I did my radio show in Manhattan. I have a livestream channel http://www.livestream.com/djpetemarriott it used to be called Mogulus but I made the switch to U-Stream which was great and then they went in a direction I strongly dislike so I came back home to Livestream and luckily for me the reason I left in the first place got corrected. LOL!
Hi Matt, It's so strange for me to listen to these old recordings be it my production projects or recording I made for my old radio show back in New York. I remember things I forgot over the years and I'm having too much fun applying this internal creative knowledge to my newer material.
Hi - You asked what type of material I produce... mostly eclectica - a mix of elements from many genres. I've also been doing some short film music as well. Thanks for the interest!
Hi Matt! I have been living in Oak Park for two years this coming August. I love it! I'm still mixing my first demo for a student film I did here at Flashpoint Academy. Btw, Great Presentation! I didn't know you had so much fun making GoldenTee! Over the next week, I'll be sure to make a more robust profile. I'm just swamped with school work at the moment as we're now entering the last week of the year. Thanks for stopping by!
I'd love to do some tracks with you . I do start on Lincoln Heights this week so I'll be busy again but there's always some way to do a few other things along the way. talk to you soon !
Hey Matt,
well I worked with Philippe Saisse on a film in late 2007. We've stayed friends and he just finished up a live album with Simon and Pino Pallidrino , The studio is in Vna Nuys not too far from me. Philippe set it up for us and away we went. Simon is amazing a great ear and got a fantastic sound that I don't really have to do much to except verbs a bit of compression levels etc. Do you play jazz drums? Maybe I'll hire you to play on on of these big band tunes I'm writing that would be great and the realism would be well. very real LOL
That would be great! I never have programmed jazz drums before it's a pain ! But, this is my first real stab at it and people love this track! I put it up on Garage Band.com just for comments and so far the reviews all think it's a real band. I need to finish the track and possibly have a real jazz drummer play on it that would smoke! My pop band The brothers dimm tracked drums with Simon Phillips last week. He recorded the session and our drummer Paul Marangoni played the drums. Came out fantastic so we're going to record at Simons from now on when we track drums.
Thanks for the kind words,... working with Randy was awesome. He is an amazing talent and I learned a lot from him. looking forward to getting more involved here in sonicville!!!
No what I did was purchase the full version of Halion. I was getting crashes on all 4 computers. I really think there's a problem with this cheaper version that came with BBB. Yuval probably won't agree with me but now it's solid I've had it open for at least 5 days straight and am writing like crazy. I've found there's 32nd note lag from one machine to the next so I just use the rim shot of BBB drums as my click so it all matches to grid in Nuendo and everything is fine. I need some Chicago deep dish pizza over here ! LOL
Hi Matt, first of all forgive me for taking so long to respond to your kind feedback. Your question about the LInux system is no, I am just getting started on that system. All 3 songs with the exception of "Love and Beauty", were cut 24 track on first, syclavier, then on analog 2" tap using a Soundcraft console, then live tracks were done and mixed on a Neve console. Sort of old style but, love that analog warmth, can't help it. "Love and Beauty", was cut on 2 alesis adats 24 track, I think it was actually mixed on a Mackey (of all things!LOL). And thank you also for being my friend. How about you what are you cutting your tracks with?
I'm alive and well! I did survive the massive layoffs. Things are still scary around here. Everybody has their ear to the ground waiting to see what's going to happen next. Rumor has it we'll survive, but we're not sure if it will be as a private company, or if we'll be eaten up by somebody larger.
You NEED to go to Doug's. The trick is to place your order to go. You can't sit down there, but you can skip ahead of the whole line to pick up your order.
Hi Matt. Thanks for the welcome. GAP Digital specializes in long form Dramatic Audio projects. Large cast of actors, custom sfx, foley, origninal music, etc. I also do a fair amount of work with sound design for some animation projects as well. Back in the days before DAWs I was a music engineer. We should check out each others' place sometime.
For your audiophile friend, I think he has realized how his tribe has dwindled in size. Some went to professional audio, some to home theater, some to personal carry-along audio, some fell of that bandwagon entirely. Depending on what school of thought he is open to, Tribes the book or the e-book or McKinsey's recent web 2.0 article might help. http://bit.ly/4TpCo
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Sorry for the tardiness of my reply, been busy working on a few different projects. Lecturing is a good way to make regular money yeah, I got my job through a guy I played session bass for and it came totally out of the blue!
I'll be sure to start picking peoples brains the more time I get to surf around here, as you say it's all about the connections you make!
Ben
At the minute I'm doing a lot of lecturing in sound recording techniques and computer music systems. In between that I'm working on the music for an independent Xbox game by Retroburn Games, its a helicopter based first person shooter, recording musicians and bands at my own studio and composing music that I hope to get into some libraries at some point. Hoping to meet some people on here for advice and networking as I'm relatively new to the video game music and sound library game! I'll hopefully have some samples up soon.
Ben
I work as a freelance in Madrid, doing moslty editing works for multimedia courses. I had this job about a year ago where I had the oportunity to work with DP. Though I'm not an expert and I mostly worked with audio I'm afraid I can't help you with your doubt about quantising. But I must say that, though I think DP is a very solid software for audio it was horrible for me to work with MIDI, basically because of the environment, and I did remember sometimes it used to caused me some troubles I wasn't able to repair. But it seems to dissappeare when I restarted. I had never solved them and I didn't want to make a big deal out of it because I didn't use MIDI often. I'm sorry I can't help. I'll tell you if I find out.
DP .....eeewwwww ickky!
well I worked with Philippe Saisse on a film in late 2007. We've stayed friends and he just finished up a live album with Simon and Pino Pallidrino , The studio is in Vna Nuys not too far from me. Philippe set it up for us and away we went. Simon is amazing a great ear and got a fantastic sound that I don't really have to do much to except verbs a bit of compression levels etc. Do you play jazz drums? Maybe I'll hire you to play on on of these big band tunes I'm writing that would be great and the realism would be well. very real LOL
Thanks for the kind words,... working with Randy was awesome. He is an amazing talent and I learned a lot from him. looking forward to getting more involved here in sonicville!!!
-mark
I love Fringe !!! good for you!!
You NEED to go to Doug's. The trick is to place your order to go. You can't sit down there, but you can skip ahead of the whole line to pick up your order.
How are things with you? IT?
I'm digging this network a lot!
The IBS is the Institute of Broadcast Sound (www.ibs.org.uk) - not to be confused with other websites with a similar acronym!!
They are looking to update their website, and are interested by this ning thing!
Richard.
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