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Live Remote Recording with Macbook Pro and Digi 003Rack

Live music recording studio remote audio I received my brand spanking new MacBook Pro just a day before the Blueskrieg Blues Night special at 19East - this is a special concert production for us coz of Binky and Lampano Alley in the artist lineup - I've always intended to record and video the gig since getting the date confirmed 10 days ago.

Anyway, I trust Mac's with ProTools so much that I went ahead with the live remote recording intent despite limited runtime with the Macbook Pro (a 2.4 Dual Core with 4Gigs of RAM). I recorded 8 tracks from the Midas Legend 3000 board's direct out...

Inside, hear the mixed audio tracks

Posted at 6pm on 09/06/07 | no comments | Filed Under: Gear, Recording-Tracking, Sessions & Projects
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Royer SF-12 stereo ribbon microphone for easy Blumlein & MS recordings

microphone stereo Royer SF-12 ribbon mic Drum Overhead We're excited to enter the wonderful world of easy* stereo recordings � with excellent analog sound quality � as the Royer SF-12 stereo coincident ribbon microphone can deliver. We put up the Royer SF-12 as overhead mic on drums � which in hindsight was appropriate for the session � a punk (speed punk) style of drumming with lots of hits (LOTS of hits) � from the kick drum to the snare to the cymbals. Here are some photos of the drum microphone setup for that session with the Royer SF-12 about 6.5feet high in the middle of the drum kit. Just one more sound weaving options for drummers � only at Sound Weavers. Enjoy the drum recording session photos inside.

Posted at 11pm on 07/10/07 | no comments | Filed Under: Gear, Recording-Tracking, Sessions & Projects
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Recording in the trenches, haul the studio out to record a baby grand piano

Lunchbox 002 MP20 PL-2 p38 R800 DAT Piano Recording Session One lazy Wednesday afternoon in April, I was thrilled and challenged by a rather unique call - for Sound Weavers to record a baby grand piano concert to be performed at a particular residence. Hmmm, ok. So I have always thought that such a remote recording requirement will come, and I have been surely preparing for - ensuring that our recording studio staff and equipment will be ready for such task when the opportunity, time - and the call - comes knocking. Here's how we did it, recording in the trenches baby!

Posted at 7pm on 05/02/07 | 2 comments | Filed Under: Recording-Tracking, Sessions & Projects
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Fire hits the studio

No, not that “fire” - but that fiery FIREBOTTLE blues band fronted by Joric Maglanque AKA DELTA SLIM - a self confessed soul dredger, err, soul bender - one of the few local ambassadors of blues music (don’t even bring up blues in a conversation unless you are ready to sit for a blues history lesson - LOL).

Firebottle blues band in the recording studio

Firebottle in the recording

Posted at 5pm on 10/18/06 | no comments | Filed Under: Gear, Recording-Tracking, Sessions & Projects
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Snakecharmer Sting Me with the Blues

SNAKECHARMER is one of the bands playing blues-based music featured in the BLUESKRIEG compilation CD project. If the name rings a bell, it's coz they are very active in the live music scene spreading the gospel of the blues.

SNAKECHARMER plays a modern sounding kind of blues music along the lines of The Black Crowes. Snakecharmer is composed of Jason on vocals and harmonica, Mitch on bass guitar, Zan on rhythm and lead guitar, Reuben on rhythm and slide guitar, Mon on drums and Roneil on keyboards.

Posted at 7am on 10/09/06 | no comments | Filed Under: Recording-Tracking, Sessions & Projects
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BluesKrieg! Pinoy blues bands attack the studio

CHESTER of PLUG with Fender Stratocaster guitar THE BLUES is alive and well in the Philippines - well in the Metro at least - next year BLUES will surely spill and explode throughout the country. BLUES ATTACK = Blueskrieg.

August and September was especially exciting here at Sound Weavers coz of recording sessions for the BluesKrieg project - an ambitious CD compilation featuring Pinoy blues-based music only and played by a current crop of blues-based bands, er.. "artistes" actively playing Metro Manila's club circuit.

Posted at 8am on 09/30/06 | 5 comments | Filed Under: Recording-Tracking, Sessions & Projects
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Recording the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra at the CCP

Two days of great experience with like minded invdividuals - all in pursuit of great sounding recordings. I was tasked to assist in putting up the microphones and also helped in line checking/leveling - but for the most part I was just awed listening to this type of music "live" and off the KRK V8 monitors.

Posted at 7pm on 04/05/06 | 2 comments | Filed Under: Recording-Tracking
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Would you like your Session “For Here” or “To Go”?

You can take your session files at Sound Weavers with you for further production on your own facility, your home desktop or laptop, at your own time.

I got into digital audio recording with the following, an M-Audio DMAN interface (a PCI card with break out cables (4out/4out TRS) and Cakewalk software, then moved to Pro Tools on Digi001, then an MBox for portability. I was able to achieve pretty good recordings with those

Posted at 10pm on 03/15/06 | 2 comments | Filed Under: Recording-Tracking, Sessions & Projects
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Preparing for your Recording Studio Session-

A short list of common sense tips that will help for a smoother and more productive session in the recording studio especially for those who are limited in budget and time.

Decide the purpose and objective of the recording session. Songwriting/pre-production, Tracking or Mixing.

Songwriting/pre-production may simply be a "live" take of all musicians (playing at the

Posted at 8pm on 03/13/06 | no comments | Filed Under: Recording-Tracking, Sessions & Projects
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To CLICK (track) or NOT to CLICK

Due to inexperience in the recording studio, young bands in the pop music genre (from pop to rock to heavy) are most vulnerable to timing and synchronization problems.

These bands can perform their songs "all together" and seem to be "locked-in" with one another but lo and behold, timing faults pop up all over the place - speeding up on crescendo and turnaround sections while slowing down on decrescendo sections.

The problem with

Posted at 9pm on 02/11/06 | 12 comments | Filed Under: Recording-Tracking
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