OK, I admit it, I’m moving towards becoming a ‘plug-in list junkie’. Despite my efforts of reducing my plug-in count and simplifying things I can’t help but think of new setups. Fortunately for me, I’m not only a plug-in list junkie, I’m also a music and recording junkie with more projects going at a time than a crossbreed of Frank Zappa and Samuel L Jackson. This abnormality opens up a new dimension to things.
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One of the big mistakes I’ve made lately is doing what’s so hip today and EQ the crap out of instruments. Unlike other people who’re stuck in one period of music I don’t see this as a necessary evil, but on the other hand I don’t feel that it’s a good thing for the kind of music I like either as it takes away the shitty feel, makes things too separated and surgical, and even kills of some of the ‘organic feel’. Actually, I don’t intend to do any proper mixing at all besides some automating of the levels, some 1-band EQing, maybe a little ’shit processing’ and using two or three ‘room busses’ perhaps.
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In the second part of this series we’ll examine the next step in the chain after the sound sources. My idea is now - and this will sound juvenile- to not really mix anything. Screw that. Screw all the options. Let’s do some bloody committing people! I’m gonna make this home recording thing the new garage.
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I feel that I’ve strayed too far from my path of musical destiny. Not only have my recordings become too large, the mixes are too detailed as well. So for my next step in gear minimalism I’m planning on hitting “the reset button” and reconsider what I need, want to do and what the best way is to achieve this.
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I have launched a new music review blog called Record Rocker available at www.recordrocker.com. I will review both new and old albums (music is timeless) from both established and un-established independent artists.

In fact, I hope to review your music. Submitting music for review is easily done using the form here. If you don’t have an album send me your Myspace link or your bands website.

But beware! I’m a total jerk when it comes to music reviews

I’ll not be running Record Rocker by myself. Free foe is already helping me out and more authors will join later.

If you want to do link exchanging then add www.recordrocker.com to your links, shoot me an email (stiff [at] protoolerblog [dot] com) telling me you’ve done so and give me the link to your music or audio related website.

The page is still in a form of beta and the design will be modified later but I couldn’t wait to make it public!

Enjoy, and don’t forget to sign up to the RSS feed.

Record Rocker

I’ve been so busy today that I haven’t had the time to update! Thank goodness gracious you’ve had such a great interview with Paul Frindle of Pro Audio DSP to read a couple of times over. If you ever get tired of reading it you can check out this mini-site from fader8 filled with graphics on EQ curves, discussion on AirEQ, Solera and other things way too technical to me.

Busy with what you ask? I’ll tell you tomorrow

I discovered another interesting blog out there today, it’s called Manchester Pro Tools User Group, but don’t worry, it’s not for residents of Manchester only (though it seems like they’re especially welcome). Have a look there, some pretty good tips & tricks related posts.

Today I finally got to try something I’ve been meaning to do for a long time - Analog channel on each channel. That’s an insane way to use plug-ins like these, here are a few other. Read more →

So you’re out of money and still want more? Here are the freebies I could find.
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RTAS/TDM plug-ins can be damn expensive as we’ve seen been discussed this week. But don’t fall into the trap of believing that you need to shell out big sums of money for a good setup of plug-ins. Here’s is one list of good plug-ins if you’re on a budget.
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