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On Home Recording…

As the YouTube generation has proven, content trumps production quality. You could have something done with the crappiest camera on earth and still be an internet success if the material is interesting enough.

Unfortunately, audio/music isn’t that forgiving. Your senses are narrowed down to one thing; hearing – and all judgment will boil down to your personal musical taste, and more importantly the actual quality of the recording.

I’ve always been meaning to put out a sample of my raw sources just to give people an idea of how much work I have to put in to “improve” the sound before I post anything on the site. Hopefully this would help them appreciate the songs a bit more (hey, every little thing counts hahaha).

I guess this is because for the songs in my site, I’m artist, engineer, and producer. I found that the latter titles put so much more pressure on me than simply being an “artist.” As an artist, fellow musicians will know if you got the chops or not, regardless of public opinion.

But the others… especially being a producer – you have the task of applying what you think should be the “proper treatment” of a piece that will be palatable to the public. Only people that have tried to “produce” can truly grasp the pressure one could get from that sort of responsibility. Read More

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Enchanted Kingdom

Last weekend, thanks to Chrise – Cris and I were able to get with the HSBC crowd during their company outing to Enchanted Kingdom. We had a blast! And we realized how small the world was as we kept running into people we knew.

I brought my camera, but didn’t take much pictures… mostly videos of the rides we took (we didn’t get to ride that much) – so I guess this will be a video post. Read More

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Could You Be Messiah

Note

There are TWO versions posted here. They were recorded one after the other, and the reason for which is an interesting story.

I’ve always mentioned to friends that the person I’m most comfortable with as a musician has always been GP because we kinda think the same way when approaching music.

I call it “wavelength” while he calls it “sixth-sense.” 1 Which he mentions in our conversation below Whatever it is, it’s extremely useful in conveying things that are hard to articulate in words (and obviously given we’re not in the same continent, “example via practical application” is out of the question as well).

The conversation below shows this clearly. 2 It’s rather long/comprehensive so read at your own peril Also, for those who’ve always wondered how collaborations between people with our type of “dynamic” go, here’s a sneak peek.

You’ll notice that the “musical aspects” of the conversation, on their own, can be very confusing – because they’re not “articulated” – we just tend to give “gists/ideas” of what we’re going after and rely on the other to “catch” we’re talking about. Surprisingly, it works very well for us because at the end of the day, when all is said and done, we ultimately will have to wing it anyways hahahaha. The awesome thing about that implication is that there’s no personal creativity stifled in the whole process. Read More

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Notes
⇡1 Which he mentions in our conversation below
⇡2 It’s rather long/comprehensive so read at your own peril
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Meme With An Actual Purpose

I’ll just quote what Katz said about it (got it from her as well)

Saw this meme making the rounds, and I thought I’d participate. Because as far as memes go, this one goes beyond self-promotion (although I suppose it still is, in the teensiest way…that’s why it’s still fun, grin) because it actually has purpose! Read More