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[Waves, BanPiracy, and Overreaction]
An Open Letter To Waves Audio Ltd. and Its Sister Company BanPiracy
To Whom It May Concern:
First, I'd like to preface this letter by saying that at our studio, Famous London Recording Studio, we own all of our software (and hardware, for that matter) fully and legitimately.
I had never heard of BanPiracy.com before this week. That's when it came to ( Read more... ) -
[Photo Missing, Link Invalid, Meh]
Okay. So. Back from the ATL. It was a nice trip, but we narrowly avoided a tornado and I got very little accomplished in the way of Migrant. So now I feel a bit like I'm playing catch up.
But first, some updates from our very own recording space, Famous London Studio: The rhythm section work for the Latchkey Kids' fourth song---"Going to Rome ( Read more... ) -
[Epiphany]
Licensing. We have all this music, all this professionally-recorded (mostly), professionally-mixed (mostly) professionally-mastered (entirely) body of music...and it's just sitting here! Tons and tons of it! Holy crap!
Just brainstorming, here's what we should get together and send to some people (I'm already in email cahoots with some licensing ( Read more... ) -
[No Sax Before a Fight]
So we claimed the first half of last weekend Specters Saturday. "Specters" is the third Latchkey Kids song we have the "skeleton" worked out for. When Matthew was here three weeks ago, he put on a really nice guitar part and a very, very rough scratch vocal. Onto that we put some auxiliary strings, some backwards rock guitar chords (one note at ( Read more... ) -
[Art, Justin, New Bain Song, J.D. Mixing, Slick, the Sampler]
So the last week has been relatively eventful, which is to be expected given the the nature of the several weeks preceeding it. Nothing flashy, but constructive just the same ( Read more... ) -
[Recording Updates, Dirty C, Latchkey Kids, Bain, Justin, Etc]
So! Last weekend was quite productive. Matthew Lovelace of the Latchkey Kids came up from Athens, GA to listen to what Yon and I have done. He said he really liked what we'd done with the first few LK songs over the last month. So we know we're moving in the right direction there, which is good. While in Knoxville, Matt laid down vocals and ( Read more... ) -
[Updates, Goings-On]
Too busy workin' when I shoulda been writin ( Read more... ) -
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Okay, so I've been very lax in my entries. We've spent the last two months wrapping up the new Rockwells CD. The last song is being mixed today. Look for a CD release show in August ( Read more... ) -
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Is it possible to be thoroughly sickened by something while also being utterly dependent upon it ( Read more... ) -
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Why I Love CDs
by Fred Kelly- They’re shiny. Mammals seem to like shiny things…a lot. I am no exception. I like how CDs reflect light, how I can see myself in it, how I can make pretty marks on the wall if I aim a reflected sun ray correctly.
- They’re durable. I got my first real CD when I was fifteen. It was the Beatles’ Abbey Road. That was seventeen ( Read more... )