November 2010
18 posts
bessblog:
Dan Romer, Chris Kuffner and I rewrote some lyrics to Arcade Fire’s Crown of Love. It’s now about buying stuff.
If you still want stuff,
Go and buy stuff,
From a store
Where they sell stuff.
IT’S GOTTA BE THE STUUUUFFF!!!!
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Would you ever consider letting someone right out...
At this time in my life, I can’t really justify paying an assistant, so I’ve actually only worked with people in college or of college age, in an intern situation.
My first intern was Jesse Lauter, who has done a ton of great work since. He produced the first Low Anthem record, and just finished engineering the second. Right now he’s working with dudes from Elvis...
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If your mixes are peaking but not distorting - is...
OK, here’s the thing:
Most people record WAAAY too hot! When you’re recording at 24 bit, you shouldn’t even be hitting yellow on the pro tools meters. Your preamp should be reading just around or above ANALOG zero. I try not to let my meters go above -12 in the digital realm. That’s where your analog gear will sound the best! Also, plug ins that emulate hardware...
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wat's xylobone?
It’s a xylophone made of bones! What I’m trying to get is the sound of the beginning of “Earth Died Screaming” by Tom Waits. The album Bone Machine is one of the most influential albums to me, especially in the percussion department. Check it: http://www.metacafe.com/watch/1815970/tom_waits_earth_died_screaming/
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fuckyeahkurtvonnegut:
“In the mid 1950s, Vonnegut worked very briefly for Sports Illustratedmagazine, where he was assigned to write a piece on a racehorse that had jumped a fence and attempted to run away. After staring at the blank piece of paper on his typewriter all morning, he typed, ‘The horse jumped over the fucking fence,’ and left.”
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I loooooove hiiiimmmmm!!!!
I’m cleaning my apartment right now. I put...
Just got the He Is We masters back from Sterling
I co-wrote and produced three songs on their upcoming LP, and I just got the masters back.
1) They sound fucking fantastic.
2) I yell “Word” “OK” or “Yeah dude!” when ever I finish performing a percussion track. This is always edited out. On one of the songs, “Everything You Do,” the tambourine track in the left channel never had this piece of...
