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Green Man Humming valve amp repair

New Pillowfish track available for download

Ice Sculptor Isotope 14 version Cover Art

this new recording uses the valve mic preamps I built over the last couple of months.

It was a learning process for using the new gear and for some recording and mixing techniques we hadn’t used before.

The arrangement features more overdubs than most of our prior work, and is [...]

I built some valve mic preamps

they sound great! I have tried a variety of critical components, different capacitors and transformers.

The lundahl 1538 input transformers sounds great as expected, very open and detailed but the much cheaper OEP A262A3E is not too bad at all either with a pleasing solidity, although a little less detail.

Claritycap capacitors from ICW were the overall [...]

Recording pics

Beginning work on the 2nd Pillowfish album. Recording the zouk with a stereo pair of hypercardiod mics in 60deg XY, and a single 414 as a different sound option.

Recording the Zouk

Recording the Zouk

restoring dynamic range to music

a very well intentioned website at: http://www.dynamicrange.de/

every musician, producer, engineer and listener should know and care about this…

disappointing that their DR measurement plugin is not yet available for osx…

new hosting

moved the blog to my own hosting, running on wordpress, as you can see….

improvements will follow as I have time…

more on headphones

hmm, so I haven’t posted anything for a long time, i think this is because I feel I have to post something interesting and complete. Being on twitter has cured me of this, so I’m now going to post smaller things as they occur to me if they are too large for twitter.

Here’s the update [...]

Headphones, in ear monitor comparison review

Well, in the last month I’ve learned a LOT about headphones.

I tried out 4 pairs of in ear monitors (IEMs) these were:

Westone UM1, Westone UM2, Futuresonics Atrio, Etymotics ER4S

What do they each sound like?

Westone UM1Very midrange heavy. Severely recessed treble and bass. An unpleasant and fatiguing upper midrange peak at about 3khz. Usable with precise [...]