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Sunday, September 7th, 2008
Robert Babicz – Mastering Audio
This is an interesting video on Vimeo about audio mastering, giving a good insight into the studio of the renowned Robert Babicz’s. He explains his techniques, gear, and trademark sound. He makes some great points regarding CD mastering, and has a customized mastering studio that anyone can be envious of!
Aurgasm
Here’s a blog by a guy named Paul Irish. He scouts out new music, writes reviews, and posts all his favourites The site features a sleek streaming audio player and full range of genres so theres something for everyone.
Ninjam
NINJAM is an application which allows you to network and record sound from your home studio with up to 8 other musicians via the Internet. Every participant can hear every other participant. Each user can also tweak the mix to his or her liking. This isn’t a new music technology, but still an excellent app..
BBC News – Technology
okay so most of you probably know this one already, but it’s an important link… If you’re pursuing a career in the music industry, whether it be CD mastering, producing, or any other media related work, I think it’s important to know and understands new technologies. The BBC technology news page is a great place to start. You’re sure to find something interesting there every day, like this article about ultrasound to give feeling to games. Clever Stuff!
Stop Motion Music
Here’s a silly video link for you to take a look at. I seen this video a few years ago but just stumbled it so it’s going in the list.. It’s a sound montage created with timeline video editing. Check it out…
DIY Audio Wiki
This is a great Wiki style DIY audio page. You’ll find everything from project tutorials, circuit designs, and general explanations to create gear for your studio. Take caution with Wiki pages though, some information can be misleading…
Tweak Bench
Here’s a selection of free VST instruments and effects to download. They might not be nice to look at, but they produce some great sound. Have a listen to the dry/wet audio samples.
Quite an old article from Sound on Sound which puts online mastering studios to the test. Mastering World, Metropolis iMastering, and Emasters were the mastering companies in question. I had the opportunity to sit in on a session with Mastering World’s Donal Whelan at the excellent Hafod Mastering Studio, so i find this a particularly interesting read.
All Record Labels
Links to over 24000 record labels around the world – a great resource for any member of the music industry.
Removing Scratches from CDs and DVDs
A method for removing scratches from CD’s using household products. I haven’t tested this on a CD of mine, but users in the forum suggest that it works brilliantly.

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Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008

Here is the first in a series of blogs you will find from now on. It’s a mixture of audio resources: some useful, some educational, and some entertaining…

Interactive Frequency Chart

First up, this musical pitch relation chart is an excellent little tool for sound engineers. These charts are very common, but i think this one certainly deserves a look. It holds a massive amount of information within the interface, including a ‘ear sensitivity’ section which is pretty interesting.

Direct Note Access

Melodine have created a truly amazing piece of software. They have given MIDI-like capabilities to audio. Chords from a single audio track can be broken down and rearranged in a number of ways. Check out the video, you will be impressed.

Holophonic Recordings

Two audio clips that were recorded using a dummy head to replicate human hearing, its pretty spectacular. Get your cans on and have a listen! You can also find a few more examples here

Audio Paint

This free application generates sounds from pictures. The program reads JPEG, GIF, PNG and BMP files and translates each pixel colour and position into frequency, amplitude and pan information. Audio Paint can therefore be considered as a massive additive synthesizer. Hours of fun for those of you interested in experimental sound.

Live Sound Reinforcement

Here is an e-book written by Scott Stark, it’s partially incomplete due to licensing laws but there’s still plenty of great information up for grabs. It has useful info for anyone playing live shows, whether you’re a complete novice or professional musician.

20 Tips on Mixing Your Tracks -

Im assuming you’ve all heard of Sound on Sound so ill skip the direct link (if you haven’t heard of it already check it out). Here is a link to an article from SOS, the title is self explanatory so i won’t explain..

Room EQ Wizard

This free Java application is used for measuring room responses and correcting modal resonances. This really is a great application, it takes some time (and a lot of reading) to get the hang of it but it’s certainly worth the effort. You’ll need an SPL meter to take readings and specific I/O capabilities on your audio interface.

8 Free, Cross-Platform Apps for Musicians

Not a bad little selection of free open source apps, mainly sequencers and a few notation applications. All useful for a low budget studio.

Mastering Audio: The Art and the Science

A free almost-full-length e-book, written by the legendary Bob Katz. This is the bible of CD mastering, but also hold some great info for any sound engineer or recording artist.

Audiophile Article

I don’t agree with a lot of what this guy states, but it’s an entertaining article about audio fanatics…