25Feb
Yes, I did say “the BOMB”. And yes I know it isn’t 1993 anymore, but these plugins are A-MAZE-ING! Clearly, the only way to describe something so cool is to say “the BOMB”.
I started using T-Racks 3 Deluxe on individual channels in mixes and they sound great, but they suck up some serious processing power. So I started using them on my output bus as sort of a pre-mastering tool and man, what a difference! I understand that the deluxe package is a standalone mastering suite, but you can use them anywhere so I chose to reduce my processing overhead by concentrating them to my output. I don’t think I will use the package for mastering because I am very partial to Apple’s Wave Burner. But this suite will certainly hold a permanent place on my output bus.
25Feb
I’ve been on a social media kick lately and I’m realizing that this thing isn’t going away. I’m not talking about social networks like Myspace, Facebook or Ning. I’m talking about Social Media, i.e. USTREAM, Tumblr and, of course, Twitter.
Over the past several months I’ve discovered that the simplest of ideas make for very powerful tools. I’ve been all about the idea of Twitter lately. I’m amazed at how people can say so much in 140 characters or less. Some people use it to say “Going to dinner” or “At the movies”, but the real innovators see it as a marketing device. The social media marketers are using it to promote their businesses, ideas, beliefs and so more. Truly amazing! USTREAM, and vlogging in general, is starting to dominate the landscape as blogging has been doing for the pasty couple of years. Some of my favorite vloggers are 1938 Media, Wine Library TV and iJustine. Give these sites a look to see where the future of the web and the sharing of information is going. The potential for this stuff is HUGE!
BTW, you can follow me on Twitter by clicking this link.
