Jan 10, 2018 | Bands, Recording, Space Elevator, Studio
We’ve been and gone and done another album! Space Elevator II has been finished, and we’re in the process of getting the physical copies made… very exciting! It’ll be available on CD, vinyl and as digital download via the ol’ iTunes,...
May 12, 2017 | Bands, General, Hints and tips
I’ve bought a new toy. It took me about 2 years to get round to it, but once I’d tried it out I knew it was the right thing to do! It’s not a Star Trek teleporter, nor is it a one-man bass riser, it’s a very cool monitoring system that, when...
Dec 10, 2015 | General, Hints and tips, Recording, Studio
As part and parcel of being a musician these days, you seem to need to do so much more than just play music. You need to understand marketing, social media, website maintenance and management, and (certainly if you use a DAW – home studio recording system) you...
Dec 10, 2015 | Bands, Hints and tips, Recording, Studio, The Missing Persians
I started writing this post when we’d booked some time together to begin recording the Missing Persians second album – I then saved the draft. I’m typing the text you’re reading now when we’re about halfway through the recording process....
Nov 3, 2015 | Bands, Recording, Studio, We Are Puppets
This is really new (we’ve only had the name “We Are Puppets” for a couple of weeks) while also being quite old. It takes over where Beelzebozo left off, seeing as it’s three of the ‘Bozos recording a similar noise but utilizing more...
Mar 20, 2015 | General, Hints and tips, Studio
I’ve just replaced my main music computer. My ageing iMac was becoming unable to cope with what I ask of it (running Cubase and some video editing being my main concerns) without showing what a friend of mine has called “the rainbow wheel of perpetual...
