August 2011
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Doing sound for Muddy Waters son
As close as I could possibly get to old school blues. So that’s pretty cool. He goes by the name Mud Morganfield. Just wish I liked blues more (maybe not). Another reason to love my job.
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COME WATCH THE BROWNIES AND FRIENDS →
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DJ - Cake or Death
Me: You have to stop playing now. DJ: How about I mix into the next song and your boss wont know? Me: He will, and No. Its 12:00, stop playing.
(Turns up, it distorts. Cuts the Track and tells audience the manager said they can all smoke pot inside. Starts track again.)
I turn him off. 10 mins later…
Me: Sorry mate had to turn you off, noise licence etc, Its my job, and I want to keep my...
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Just pretend it never happened.
In my imagination the arts centre isn’t open till Monday. Anything that happens this weekend is a fictional mess.
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The quiet before the storm.
Next week, when september kicks in, my work goes back into a full time gig schedule. Its going to be weird as the last month or so has been so quiet. There is about 4-5 sold out shows and it flips from 2 shows a week to 6. It will be amazing but Im just trying to get my head ready. I feel like I have a had a summer school holiday and term time is approaching, and I forgot to do my homework.
Once...
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Musicians, Engineers, take note.
Read and learn.
Interesting Reblog.
iamyoursoundtech:
Read this article about Loudness Wars.
In mastering, I am confronted by this every day and have seen special cases. I am happy to say that my clients listen to me and decide to not have crushed albums, but still, this is good reading about the whole Loudness issue.
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131 play count.
Today I listened to a Tubelord album 11 times. Repeatedly. I wish the drought of shows at work would fuck off.
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One whole year
I have had this blog now for one year, so as it’s a sunday I have looked back over what I have accomplished. First I’m amazed I have managed to keep the blog going this long. My attention span sucks, and I’ll usually start/make/buy something, use it religiously for a month, then it gets forgotten. So yay that. Its been the happiest year I have ever had. It’s itself thats...
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Worst gig the arts centre has ever put on. →
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AIM confirms [PIAS] stock destroyed, calls on... →
canndo:
AIM has confirmed that all stock held in the warehouse “has been destroyed by the fire”. This could obviously be devastating for many of the labels concerned, as well as independent record stores who sell a lot of that physical product.
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And another band die..... →
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