This tweet sent me down an unexpected audio production rabbit hole: R. Derek Black – 6 May 2021: I think I love every one of the like 15 different versions of the song Valerie I’ve ever heard...
https://crimeandtheforcesofevil.com/blog/2021/05/06/an-unexpected-audio-production-rabbit-hole/
A few people had been asking if I had a Patreon, and I haven’t. But since yesterday was the last day to set an account up there under the old, better-for-creators terms, I did, so now I do. I h...
https://crimeandtheforcesofevil.com/blog/2019/05/07/i-have-no-idea-what-im-doing-there/
Hm. That’s … not a half-bad album title, is it? File that one away… (⌒▽⌒) Anyway, as you might tell from the last post, I’ve been doing a fair bit of studio maintenance lately, ...
https://crimeandtheforcesofevil.com/blog/2019/03/07/my-real-life-encounter-with-the-metric-inch/
So, my digital audio workstation. The hub of any small/personal recording studio, the thing what lets you record and multitrack and all that. I built this machine into an absolutely antique Compa...
https://crimeandtheforcesofevil.com/blog/2019/03/01/more-adventures-in-computing/
Let’s talk about wifi. Let’s talk about the wifi in the recording studio. Historically, I haven’t cared very much about the wifi in my studio. I don’t need it for much. I have a network c...
https://crimeandtheforcesofevil.com/blog/2018/12/22/what-even-is-this/
Been a while, eh? Doing some work in the studio lately with Leannan Sidhe recording vocals for her solo project. I also rebuilt some physical infrastructure around the sound baffling that gave me...
https://crimeandtheforcesofevil.com/blog/2018/12/01/oh-hello-2/
I got a pair of abandonware speakers, so I’m making them better. They’re going to end up as another musician’s monitors – I can’t make them true reference, but I can make them a lot clo...
https://crimeandtheforcesofevil.com/blog/2018/05/11/found-speakers-improving-same/
Well, it’s a little past that time, but mostly, it’s that time – it’s the nwcMUSIC 2018 sneak preview! click to enlarge I think first-year showrunners Steve Perry (panel programming) and ...
https://crimeandtheforcesofevil.com/blog/2018/03/03/nwcmusic-2018-sneak-preview/
And that was 2017. For the most part, the less said, the better, let’s be honest. I did hardly anything musical. The band has been on hiatus. I’ve done a lot of politics, because hey, guess w...
https://crimeandtheforcesofevil.com/blog/2017/12/31/now-where-were-we/
Loading out for a weekend set of shows in Kennewick with Leannan Sidhe – if you’re in the area, here’s the Facebook event, c’mon out! Leannan Sidhe is a trad- and trad-style band, so play...
https://crimeandtheforcesofevil.com/blog/2017/09/22/kennewick-its-on-the-way-to-pasco/