Sound Garden guitar cover

Hello six string slingers

I have finally come across an accurate guitar tab that brilliantly transcodes one of my favorite songs from the 90's, Burden In My Hand by Sound Garden. I remember many hang ups as a teenager trying to learn this song and have a rough time because the song is in an obscure open turning and every "free" tab out there was getting baffled by this right off the start—pretty gruelling to learn a song that is tabbed in the wrong turning to say the least!

This last year I came across a website that has transformed my guitar playng by making tabs much more accurate and the rhythm of the song is built in so there are no guesses with the time signature or any other important piece of musical information that free tab sites seems to frequently get stumped on. Don't get me wrong, the LE version of this tab site is also free, but what makes it great, is that it employs a strong interface that is incredibly intuitive for the guitar player.

Check out the website, http://www.songsterr.com/ and skip the frustration that faulty tabs will bring you! Unnecessary frustration when a guitar player like yourself should be focusing on developing your own style and recruiting more groupies. Below is the cover tune, it is an ode to my former tab-frustrated teenager self and the awesome readers of my blog, enjoy!

https://vimeo.com/79762346 

E bow Demonstration Video

I have created a demonstration video to follow up from my Ebow post. I have been having fun with my new guitar tool and thought that it could be useful for those considering picking up one of these awesome gadgets.

Music First audio production seminar

Hello

I have recently taken on a new position as head of audio post production for film and new media with the Music First school.  I will be teaching intro to audio post production on October 21st at Skull Space studios at 125 Adelaide St. I am excited to announce that this will be the last seminar at this location because we have newly acquired the former Absurd Machine Studio space and are in the process of converting it to be a fully operational recording space! In November all of our classes will be held this premier location. Esteemed Colombian electronic producer, Felipe Munoz, will be teaching electronic music production and I will focus on teaching  production techniques for live instruments and of course the film and broadcast side of production.

I am very thrilled to have a co-teacher with Felipe's great talents and I know from experience already that we make a great team in the studio. We are newly renovating our program outline for the new space; we will be able to offer a much wider range of subject matter. When the classes aren't in session the studio will be working on client projects., which will be engineered by Felipe and myself.

The greatest thing about the space is that we have the capacity to launch huge album release concerts in house because  of the 600 person capacity of the space. I will post a demo teaser of our seminars after we record the intro session  on  October 21st. Keep checking in! I will update you on the  renovations of the studio.

Cheers!

Blackbird Studios

I recently got to use a product create by one of my most favourite producers George Massenburg. I got to sweep the master mix of a couple new Last Relapse tunes and to fill out mix before we sent it out to a mastering house. I always try to do a bit of a pre-master before I sent any records out to a mastering house: so they know the over all sound that we are trying to achieve for the final product.

I was working with the GML 8200 on the stereo mix bus to treat the final left and right mix. I was amazed at the surgical precision and incredible transparency of this mastering EQ. I found the design to be very ergonomic with the pots having a certain weight to them so you could turn them within a fraction of a Db to target the specific frequency.

I remember a photo of George Massenburg's EPIC studio intrigued me at a young age just starting my career in sound with Sound Art Calgary. The photo was half way through an issue of Mix Magazine and it just jumped out at me as one of the most amazing studios I have ever seen. The design is acoustically brilliant and doubles as a modern art installation. Check out Blackbird Studios below:

Fully functional surround sound mixing space.

I was surprised to learn the George Massenburg coined the term "Parametric EQ," this term is consider part of the essential studio vocabulary in any modern studio. His products were at the fore front of their day and many of the EQs George uses in the studio have earned a world class reputation for delivering the most true high fidelity audio.

Even more shocking than the reputation of the studios renowned gear is the client list that has put in blood sweat and beers to create great albums at his studio. I wonder how many ground breaking artists visited each other in this multi studio facility: there are 10 separate sections of this studio for high quality recording... I think he's just trying to rub it in haha

I was happy to get my hands on an innovative piece of gear that sings true just like the legendary studio that has been a long standing fixation of my pipe dreams.