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Top Drummer Dom Famularo says “RELAX”

Top drummer DOM FAMULARO held a drum clinic at Yupangco’s main office along Buendia Ave Makati City Philippines. DOM is an endorser of Sabian hand hammered cymbals and Vic Firth drum sticks.

I caught the second half of DOM’s presentation/talk/performance. The Yupangco main showroom was cleared to make way for a very large crowd, easily at least 300 people. A drum clinic obviously has a drum kit setup - in this case it was a nice

Posted at 11am on 07/14/06 | no comments | Filed Under: Gear, Sessions & Projects
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Recording of a Rondalla Group

One of our interesting and challenging sessions last month was the recording of a 13 member rondalla group - the Drugmakers Rondalla Group. It was a logistical and physical challenge to fit 13 persons with their musical instruments in the relatively limited space of our tracking room - even including using the B room as an isolation room. Fact is the complete rondalla is comprised of 24 members!

Rondalla Music Instruments Guitar Banduria Octavina
Octavina and Banduria are lead instruments in Rondallas

The Drugmakers Rondalla is comprised of amateur/hobbyist musicians - all of them are also employees of the company. We were told that their company president loves music and in fact the company has a chorale group and a brass marchingband, too. What a cool company to work in huh?

Posted at 5pm on 06/16/06 | 54 comments | Filed Under: Sessions & Projects
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Jimmy Luttrell - Guitar King

This weekend we were fortunate to have a very personal encounter with a great musician - JIMMY LUTTRELL is a multi-style, multi discipline guitar player - he's been recording guitars and vocals for a CD of self penned love songs that he will release soon.

Over casual chats, he slowly revealed the "guitar king" that he is, the projects and musicians he has been involved with and OH BOY - it was like a story telling session "HISTORY OF GUITAR and GREAT GUITAR PLAYERS" - straight of the horse's mouth. Among other things, he taught Jimmy Hendrix how to play behind the back guitar - NOW that was blast of a revelation to a music fan like me.

Posted at 1pm on 05/29/06 | 1 comment | Filed Under: Gear, Sessions & Projects
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Wassup? Recording studio updates - New recording studio Gear

We’ve been terribly occupied since April through this month of May. It occured to me that I have not updated the blog for quite awhile. Well here goes.

New recording studio gear. We’ve received new processors, monitor speakers, microphones, plugins and other smaller stuff like drum skins, dampers, and egg shakers, too! Still waiting for the following a Fender reissue Blues Deluxe all tube amp, Gallien Kruger bass amp and 2×10 cabinet, Yamaha 01V (I don’t

Posted at 5pm on 05/22/06 | no comments | Filed Under: Construction, Sessions & Projects
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Eye Scream - the band from Cabanatuan City

Eye Scream is a band from Cabanatuan City, Nueva Ecija - standouts of Muziklaban and GBOB competitions. They have really nice songs and deliver strong and dynamic live performances. I chanced upon them through an acquaintance and now I'm producing their debut recording.

We started pre-production in February, recording live takes of Eye Scream's songs for studies re: arrangements, lyrics, dynamics. We've been tracking drum parts this week - so far so good. 3 songs down and 9 to go. We've also been laying down bass and guitar parts in between drum takes.

Inside, a couple of drums recording session photos

Posted at 12pm on 03/30/06 | 45 comments | Filed Under: Sessions & Projects
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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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Soft launch: Feb ‘06 - Calling artists & bands

Sound Weavers is on soft launch mode for the rest of February. We are inviting a few select artists and bands to come in for "live takes" and get a feel of the studio’s personnel and facilities.

Calling "real" artists and bands interested in laying down "live tracks". Curious? Send materials (profile, a couple of demos and where we can see you "live").

Musically mature bands, artists and musicians with passionate and kick ass music

Posted at 7am on 02/16/06 | 3 comments | Filed Under: Sessions & Projects
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Wanted: Music Projects Assistant

Rebolusyon! Rekords (a division of Sound Weavers) is looking for a

MUSIC PROJECTS ASSISTANT.
Ground floor opportunity with an independent record label determined to support Pinoy artists who write and perform their own music material. Assistant position reports directly to CEO. Path to lead and manage Rebolusyon Rekords.

Tasks:
- Scout and spot talents/artists that fit the Rebolusyon mold
- Facilitate/assist artists’ creative pursuits (talent/material

Posted at 12pm on 06/23/05 | 2 comments | Filed Under: Sessions & Projects
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