Windows 7 (I like it so far!)

January 27, 2009

So, curiosity got the best of me and I grabbed the Windows 7 beta soon after it was publicly released.  After planning on installing it on an old PC (500mhz celeron, 256mb ram), and finding that it just plain wouldn’t install without at least 512mb RAM, I hatched a plan involving my laptop (a gateway […]

Lots to do

September 29, 2008

I finally got a chance last night to go through the drum sessions from NYC the other week and give them a listen.  When we were at the studio, we kept between 3 and 6 takes for each song.  For some songs, we tried a couple different tempos, and for others, Mike or Tom played […]

Pro Tools Overdubs Video

May 17, 2008

I made my first educational video the other day. My friend Mike recently got Pro Tools and had a question about making overdubs sound smoother. So rather than typing out a huge email, I just broke out the video camera. After doing that, it seemed like it was something other people might find useful, so […]

If it doesn’t exist in 3 places, it might as well not exist at all

May 1, 2008

So I have a ton of new songs I’ve been working on, recording demos as inspiration strikes and when I have free time.  Last night I thought of a vocal harmony for one of them (“so long” is the title).  So I brought up the Pro Tools session to record it.  To my horror, the […]