Monday, September 25, 2017

The making of Concrete and Gold

Sunday, September 24, 2017

Muriwai redux





Stormzy - Shut Up

METZ - Drained Lake


First-timer


Monday, September 18, 2017

Nick Yacyshyn is an animal

Sunday, September 17, 2017

Office for the afternoon

Could be worse.

Casefile Podcast - The Frankston Serial Killer



Saturday, September 16, 2017

Bits and pieces from the recording archives, continued (continued)

Bits and pieces from the recording archives, continued

Unbeatable for hand-blackening


Chris Harris test drives the Pagani Huayra

Friday, September 15, 2017

Arch Hill Studio, 2011


Histrionics - Fugue State (2013)

The Killing Room's Sunn amp



Mean Girls (Live at Whammy Bar, 2011)


Holy shit these guys were loud. 

The Federales - Gonna Leave You (2010, XII Below)

Far North, New Year 2016-2017







Double-wide

From the surprisingly excellent Jack Black film, "Bernie". 

Early Graves - Days Grow Cold

Repost from 2014. Much heaviness. Listen loud.

*Springtime intensifies*


Thursday, September 14, 2017

BADBADNOTGOOD (feat. Ghostface Killah / Tree) - Street Knowledge

Hidden in my bag for years, only now discovered


Buddy Guy - Baby Please Don't Leave Me

Some proper bass to rattle the neighbour's windows. 

The Bright Light Social Hour - Rhubarb Jam

Lungfish - Black Helicopters

Wednesday, September 13, 2017

Tim and Eric at their weirdest



The greatest. (From here). 

Tuesday, September 12, 2017

Leave no word behind


Monday, September 11, 2017

Northwestern running track, rainbowfied


Sunday, September 10, 2017

Hypodermic

(Photo credit: RGK)

Night landing in Nice

Slick.

Double-mic setup

The new condenser mic recorded amazingly well, but I forgot to save the project on Reaper. Lesson learned. 

Saturday, September 9, 2017


Indestructible

"Are you sure you just haven't made thousands of mistakes?"

How guitars were recorded for "Songs for the Deaf"

Behringer B1 Condenser Mic


A super cheap (but surprisingly good) large-diaphragm condenser mic to hopefully get around the cymbal wash that otherwise dominates my drum recordings. Also sounds crazy good recording the guitar amp (note the "shoe mount" for the kick mic also). 

Wednesday, September 6, 2017

Interface 3.0

Behringer UMC204HD (really rolls off the tongue). A significant improvement on the Alesis i02+, which used to clip and distort at anything over 0.5/10 on the gain knob. 

Saturday, September 2, 2017

KNOWER - Overtime

Greg Koch plays the Gibson DG-335

More from the noise archives

Death From Above 1979 - Holy Books

Friday, September 1, 2017

From an expedition into the depths of the old hard drive











Solar eclipse in close-up





Dave Grohl - Just Another Story About Skeeter Thompson

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