In December, I bought a looper. The idea was to lay down a couple of foundation guitar parts, rhythm heavy things I could sing over or that would free me up to do something other than guitar. As things progressed the Fela-style afrobeat jams were by far the most interesting and fun to play.
Thus began Me Mountain - a combination of afrobeat and post-punk.
We recorded the drums and foundation loops live using a pair of C414B’s as overheads and a couple of MD421’s on the kick and snare. We ran those four tracks into my RME Fireface 800 and Digital Performer over a few hot days in our practice space.
I like the results. Would you like to join my band?
The Autry needed a convention soundscape to play behind a slideshow of former presidents roughing it like cowboys. It had to flow seamlessly from decade to decade while not showing any particular political bias.
I didn’t have access to university archive or old new reels; I had to rely on the internet to give me my material. I used Miro to download any and all convention related material I could find on YouTube, Google video, etc. After stripping out the choice audio from the convention footage, I added in some crowd sound effects from my personal library and mixed it all together with DP5.
When you go to the exhibit, you’ll hear the audio as you walk in.
Here’s what the Autry has to say about the exhibit:
During the spring and summer of 2008, April 12 through September 7, the Autry National Center will premiere Cowboys and Presidents. This national traveling show will explore the fascinating and ongoing intersection of cowboy culture and presidential politics from Theodore Roosevelt to George W. Bush.
The exhibit will explain how the presidency became intertwined with the emerging image of a heroic American cowboy at the turn of the twentieth century and will explore the ways that U.S. Presidents have used this powerful iconographic symbol to define themselves and their administrations to the nation and the world. It will also show how the press, foreign governments, and domestic political opponents have found cowboy imagery useful in criticizing presidential policy and leadership.
I had the great pleasure of mixing 6 songs on the new City of Progress record, Human Machine. To be fair, Max had already put the mix together in DP4, all that was needed was some EQ, a little automation, and some Vintage Warmth.
Black Dollar Productions teamed up with Quiet Pirate Press to create this meditation on what a Web 2.0 video might look like if it was created by an robot Noel Coward. The piece debuted at BETALEVEL’s Late Night Snack in Chinatown.
Two of the robot voices were default Mac text-to-speech voices. The other two, the bawdy Brits, were GhostReader voices. I split the main script into four character scripts and exported each characters lines to audio. After timing the stop motion in Premier, I chopped up each characters audio in Digital Performer and edited it all together with sound effects and Kraftwerk.
Black Dollar Productions was hired in 2006 by testwiser.com to be both recording engineer and Voice-Over talent for all online media.
Black Dollar Productions recorded and edited over 2500 GRE/SAT words, definitions, and sentences in preparation for testwisers 2007 site launch. For a glisp of the finished product, try testwiser’s online demo.
Testwiser has been authored by expert test takers who scored in the 99th percentile on the verbal sections of the GRE and SAT, with advice from skilled teachers and real students. The Testwiser system is proven to help students succeed in learning the vocabulary essential to their test.
In December, I bought a looper. The idea was to lay down a couple of foundation guitar parts, rhythm heavy things I could sing over or that would free me up to do something other than guitar. As things progressed the Fela-style afrobeat jams were by far the most interesting and fun to play.
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Black Dollar Productions teamed up with 
Black Dollar Productions was hired in 2006 by