Why I Hate Tape! (and the Beauty of Hard Disk Recording)

January 20, 2010

God do I hate tape. I am so happy not to have to deal with it anymore. I’m a spoiled brat when it comes to recording. My experience with analog was from age 15-18 with my Tascam 464 portastudio 4 track. I quickly moved to digital hard disk based recording at that point with a [...]

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Improve Voice Over Recording by Listening to the World Around You

January 18, 2010

When you’re in the mountains you can yell the word “ECHO!” and hear “ECHO Echo echo” come back at you. When you’re in your closet trying to find a pair of pants you can yell the word “ECHO!” and the only thing you will get back is a confused or concerned look from your spouse! [...]

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I Love Recorded Music

January 14, 2010

I just saw one of my favorite bands (Zero 7) live in Chicago. I must say, there is nothing like the excitement that builds in anticipation waiting for a favorite act to come on stage. I got there early and was right in front, examining the elaborate variety of instruments laid out across the stage. [...]

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Home Recording Equipment … How I Replaced My Drive

January 5, 2010

Tonight I just replaced my hard drive in my old 17″ MacBook Pro. Actually for a guy like me this was fun as hell! Thanks to otherworldcomputing.com and their handy dandy instruction videos it was a cinch! I ordered my drive through them as well as all the tools, along with an empty chassis to [...]

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Enhance your Life with Technology

December 10, 2009

When I met my wife almost 5 years ago she had a computer and an email address and a website. From all outward appearances a techno-chic chick. It didn’t take me too long to realize she could use a little help though in regard to all this technology. She checked her email about once a [...]

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Speed Up Your Web Browsing With Google Public DNS

December 9, 2009

What the heck is a DNS? It stands for “Domain Name Server” — and what that is, well let me give you a little background first.  The way computers find each other on the internet is through their IP (Internet Protocol) address.  This is actually a series of numbers like 192.168.1.1 (if you recognize those [...]

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Jamie is Now an Admin on the Site

December 3, 2009

Many of you already know Jamie as the bubbly beautiful girl with me in my videos. She’s a recording artist, jamieblythe.com and voice actor,  jamieblythevo.com – and is very talented. You can now interact with her on the blog and she’ll be able to answer voice over questions and also speak from her years of [...]

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Voice Over Software Repair … How Recall Saved the Day

December 3, 2009

The other day I was helping a client reinstall her software after her computer crashed. (yes, the same one who I was working with when my drive at home ironically crashed) She’d done a lot of the heavy lifting and all I needed to do was to install drivers for her interface and make it [...]

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Be Prepared to Lose Your Data

December 3, 2009

Monday afternoon I had a rude awakening after returning from helping a client who ironically suffered a hard drive crash. My hard drive crashed! Ready for this? Before I left for that client I had another client email me desparately for advice after his hard drive just crashed. About 4 months ago I walked a [...]

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Mixing Studio Speakers …Use Panning to Bring Out Each Instrument

December 2, 2009

As a kid looking at names of classical pieces, I thought they had the stupidest names ever. “Sonata for piano and clarinet in g major” “Etude for Trombone and Strings” — LAME! How about ‘Sweet Child ‘o Mine’ or ‘Sweet Dreams’ – so much more intriguing! However as a mixing engineer if I was to [...]

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