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“There is nothing so secular that it cannot be sacred, and that is one of the deepest messages of the Incarnation.” - Madeleine L'Engle I interpret that to mean if God is the epitome of sacred and became the lowest form of secular by becoming a human, even mundane subjects of every day life...

Absolutely. Just as there is no "Christian" songs, there are no "Satan" songs. There are songs with lyrical content that worship God (worship = ascribe worth to), as there are songs that worship sex, worship anti-politicalism, worship antidisestablishmentarianism (i have always wanted to use...

I just did a google search on Steve Barnett and found his site - but not only that, he wrote some essays on recording! Nice. Mostly it is on recording etiquette, expectations and the producers job. Nothing on what he notates for mistakes though. Steve Barnett - Production Essays

If you're writing about classical editing.... I actually love doing this stuff! It probably sounds like a mindless monkey job, but it's actually very creative and musical in nature. I have to understand what the artists interpretational goal, what the composer was intending, fitting it all...

Good to know. I've been building pre's and compressors and reading books to understand how electronics work, but it's more like "paint by numbers" at this stage. I feel like if I understand how something works at it's most fundamental level, it will help me understand and use gear more...

Unfortunately, what you hear in classical music is completely fabricated. It's not that it's not "real," it's just the perfected version. A musician might not like the tone of one note and will replace it. It's the same with pop music, but because classical music doesn't have the repetition...

Sometimes those mistakes really make a song too. It sounds more organic and less over produced. Years back, I did an EP for a girl and she totally messed up on an acoustic part - she hated it and wanted to retake it, but it was the coolest mess-up I've heard. It was perfectly placed in the...

Me too, I've found it really helps to do that during the editing process after I know what I want to keep and cut. Keeps my edits organized. Do you do that while recording or only while editing?

It's a HV-3D - 8 channels of clean goodness. I've got 12 channels to work with if I need my two other hv-3c's. You wouldn't believe how many channels you need to record an organ. Fantasie und Fuge uber den Choral Ad nos ad salutarem undam - Franz Liszt - YouTube I think I used only 10 on...

Nah, once you start teaching you only then begin to learn how much you don't know.

I used to mark actual physical copies of musical scores (with staff lines and notes) with pencil, but I just bought a tablet to electronically mark PDF scores. That way I can email the marked up score to clients for review quickly. In Reaper, I make notes with markers while in the editing...

I've been trying to come up with a quick way of marking scores for good and bad takes. I'd like some refinement. I came up with an acronym for ease of memorization, but that's not necessary to keep. PRINTEDLX and G I notate these letters in the score to show what's good and bad, and then...

I often tell my students this example: Even if I was the greatest guitarist in the world, I would still take lessons - but I would take lessons from vocalists, cellists, even drummers. There is something always available to learn from others and their experience. Even if I was the greatest...

I just got my Millennia back today. Left outside my door in 30 below Fahrenheit weather for who knows how long.... A $4000 piece of gear, left in the snow?!?!?!?!? Thanks UPS man.

Well, I have follicular deficiency (I almost wrote phallic) and completely able to stick (clean) plungers on my head and walk around like a unicorn to the amusement of store-shoppers, so I'm usually able to attain that nice "airtight seal." These are relatively inexpensive, and I haven't...

I just looked at the HD380 manual.... it states they have 32dB noise reduction. In your experience, is that correct? And are they "accurate," without any funky frequencies popping out? When I was tracking the associate concert master of the MinOrch, his wife was listening in through the...

My fault! I miscommunicated. I googled the manual and found the diagram on page 10 to double check. Technical jargon can get confusing, so the pictures left no doubt in the writers/editors intension and there was no keyboard in the example. The worst part of it was that I miscommunicated...

Which is probably why I keep forgetting.... It's all coming back now. And this is why I choose Classical and Jazz as my bread and butter.

OK, my mastering buddy has talked a lot about gain voltage and I've heard some people say that when reducing or increasing the main output of a project reduces or increases the bit depth of the project. What is all that about? Do they actually mean gain voltage or what? Does that matter?

This is exactly the response I expect from a mastering engineer! This might help explain the differences of why I do it this way. Compression only attenuates the peaks, but I may not be focusing on just the loudest peaks. There might be a very soft section, well below the apex, that is...