Got wood?

Maybe the days are over for those that have a "black crack" habit. Seems as though someone has devised a technique to cut records to wood instead of vinyl and/or acetate.

Ignoring the newspaper the report is filed from, it still makes for an interesting read and brings a new angle to things. Best of all you can apparently cut your own records....

Although I wouldn't suggest using an MP3 as your "master" to cut from, I'm not sure if this is a limitation of the code that was developed to perform the process....


 Hopefully this might lead to some record labels doing limited runs of certain tunes on wood, which I think is a really cool concept. As a record collector myself, I'm a sucker for anything that's remotely limited or special, and would love to own a version of a song from one of my favorite labels cut to wood.

Find out how to cut your own records to wood

Here's the actual site of the creator and how to cut your own records 

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Time & Space EZDrummer Lite - Absolutely Free

"Ever wanted to try Toontrack's EZmix 2 or EZdrummer? Well now you can as until 31st May, you can download EZdrummer Lite and/or EZmix 2 Lite absolutely free!"

 
I've just tried this out myself and the order went through fine, just make sure to enter the discount code "EZDL100" when purchasing and all shall be fine. Waiting for my download to be sent to me, but as far as I can tell you shouldn't have a problem at all.

Happy drumming!

EZDrummer Lite - For FREE!

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Sega Synthesis

The original games machine may be a little bit before a few of our younger students time, but all that aside this is a pretty sweet idea for a synth!

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Sound City

Just a short to the point post here. If you have any interest in music (which I imagine you would being on this blog) just go check out the film "Sound City."
Nothing much else can really be said, just thank me later :)

SOUND CITY.

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Great Promotional Video

This seems like a great solution to many live mixing engineer's worries, and if you've done it yourself you'll understand why. The ability to roam around the crowd and see what it sounds like to the people that matter why adjusting any parameter on the desk - what a liberty!

In no way are we endorsed by the company in question, but it sure is a great promotional video none the less.

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What is this I don't even...

Water + Sound? Nothing more to be said than to watch this video and try and persuade one of the lectures that doing this in the live room of studio 2 is a great idea....

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Won't catch me riding dirty....

SO! It's been a while since I posted. And I guess as part of some new years resolution I said I'd make an effort to submit some blog posts. It just so happens I've come across a great solution for Logic Pro 9 users who have experienced the "spinning beach ball of death" one too many times.....

So I'd heard about this before, but in all honesty I've not had to use or panic to try and find it as Logic has been pretty stable for about the last year or so on my machine. I've had the occasional crashed project. But nothing like a few years ago where some projects would end up being called "Idea 1 (crashed) (crashed) (crashed) (crashed) (crashed).logic"
Anyway, I digress.
What this is and what it is useful for is when you're performing a task in Logic and you're greeted with the spinning beach ball of doom. Usually your only solution to this is 'force quit' the application and just hope your CMD+S habit has saved you only a small bit of work to recover manually.
I'm not going to bother to try and explain the technicalities behind it, it's best to just watch the video as the guy walks you through pretty well. But essentially from what I understand is that you force logic to crash and therefore save a (crashed) version of the project at the hang up point.
I tried this out today as it finally happened to me and it worked a charm. He says it will work about every 9/10 times. But I'm fine with those odds!

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