Hi everyone!
After my 2nd casting, where I had to choose between 52 singers, I finally chose...Xiomara Crystal !
She has the voice I'm looking for, but she also plays guitar and piano, and she writes for her band CrystalX !
We already talked together, and we record by the end of april.
Until that, you can discover her by listening at her soundclouds:
- her personal soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/xiomaracrystal
- her band's soundcloud, CrystalX: https://soundcloud.com/crystalxmusic
I'm really happy to record with her, and of course you'll have some samples here when everything is recorded!
See you next week.
Saturday, March 28, 2015
Friday, March 27, 2015
My studio !
Hi everyone!
A little late for this article, because I had to organize my studio again.
You may have already seen this picture:
This is the room where I spend almost all of my time.
If you already watched some of my videos, you may have noticed that the things in this room don't always have the same place...it's true!
Depending on the projets I'm working on, or my mood, I change all or just some things in this room.
For exemple, the electronic drums on this picture is usually in my other room, except if I have to record drums.
Th xylosynth usually is above the keyboard, while the Virus is in front of the wall.
This week-end, I put a wooden floor, so I had to unplug everything, move everything, install the wooden floor, then move and plug everything again...
Each time I decide to move everything, it takes me 3 days. The longest part is to plug everything again. Side to site, there is something like 250m of cables.
Here's the room now:
Let me tell you more about this room:
Everything is set around my mixing desk, a Yamaha dm-2000 V2, that I use for mixing, but also as a control surface for protools. It has 2 MLAN cards, allowing me to have 32 inputs and 32 outputs on my computer.
My monitors are BM5A, by Dynaudio.
On my left, there's a midi patch, which links all my midi gear. I can use any keyboard to control any other keyboards or virtual instruments on the computer.
There is also an audio patch to plug some temporary sources (guitars, DJ desk, another soundcards...)
I have some mics in this furniture, as well as my preamps (Jymm audio, the one I made). I always have at least 2 keyboards out, the kurzweil PC3, and the Access Music Virus. With both of them, I can have a lot of sounds and controls available when I need.
Everything in this room is permanently plugged to the desk, so everything is ready to be recorded.
I also have 2 multipairs ready to plug some mics to the DM2000, without having to go behing the desk...
But that's only my control room.
Here's my live room:
This is where I give my music lessons, but this room is also linked to the other one via a multipair cable, so that I can record instruments here, while in my control room. This is where I recorded the strings for "Shadows".
In this room, there's usually my 88 keys kurzweil SP2XS keyboard, the Edrums, one guitar amp, and one bass amp.
You now know everything !
See you tomorrow!
A little late for this article, because I had to organize my studio again.
You may have already seen this picture:
This is the room where I spend almost all of my time.
If you already watched some of my videos, you may have noticed that the things in this room don't always have the same place...it's true!
Depending on the projets I'm working on, or my mood, I change all or just some things in this room.
For exemple, the electronic drums on this picture is usually in my other room, except if I have to record drums.
Th xylosynth usually is above the keyboard, while the Virus is in front of the wall.
This week-end, I put a wooden floor, so I had to unplug everything, move everything, install the wooden floor, then move and plug everything again...
Each time I decide to move everything, it takes me 3 days. The longest part is to plug everything again. Side to site, there is something like 250m of cables.
Here's the room now:
Let me tell you more about this room:
Everything is set around my mixing desk, a Yamaha dm-2000 V2, that I use for mixing, but also as a control surface for protools. It has 2 MLAN cards, allowing me to have 32 inputs and 32 outputs on my computer.
My monitors are BM5A, by Dynaudio.
On my left, there's a midi patch, which links all my midi gear. I can use any keyboard to control any other keyboards or virtual instruments on the computer.
There is also an audio patch to plug some temporary sources (guitars, DJ desk, another soundcards...)
I have some mics in this furniture, as well as my preamps (Jymm audio, the one I made). I always have at least 2 keyboards out, the kurzweil PC3, and the Access Music Virus. With both of them, I can have a lot of sounds and controls available when I need.
Everything in this room is permanently plugged to the desk, so everything is ready to be recorded.
I also have 2 multipairs ready to plug some mics to the DM2000, without having to go behing the desk...
But that's only my control room.
Here's my live room:
This is where I give my music lessons, but this room is also linked to the other one via a multipair cable, so that I can record instruments here, while in my control room. This is where I recorded the strings for "Shadows".In this room, there's usually my 88 keys kurzweil SP2XS keyboard, the Edrums, one guitar amp, and one bass amp.
You now know everything !
See you tomorrow!
Tuesday, March 24, 2015
Shadows - looking for a singer...again
Hi everyone!
You know that it was hard for me to find a singer. I finally organized a casting, and I found one !
Unfortunately, we have schedule issues, so I have to find another singer.
I created another casting on starnow, and I had 50 applications.
I will keep you informed when I made my decision !
See you soon !
You know that it was hard for me to find a singer. I finally organized a casting, and I found one !
Unfortunately, we have schedule issues, so I have to find another singer.
I created another casting on starnow, and I had 50 applications.
I will keep you informed when I made my decision !
See you soon !
Monday, March 9, 2015
CompoLive - Here's the result !
Hi everyone!
The first CompoLive was last sunday !
After a few checks to know if everyone was able to see and hear me, I used my number generator to pick up a number for the styles, and some instruments, then I started composing the song...
There were 5 people watching this live !
From my side, everything went very fast, I hope that everyone who watched like it.
I only have one regret, I would have liked to add some noises, but I didn't have time...
I really appreciated this live, so I decided to do another one, the 19th of April, on stageit.
You can already send me your propositions !
Here are the propositions I received for the first one:
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See you next week !
The first CompoLive was last sunday !
After a few checks to know if everyone was able to see and hear me, I used my number generator to pick up a number for the styles, and some instruments, then I started composing the song...
There were 5 people watching this live !
From my side, everything went very fast, I hope that everyone who watched like it.
I only have one regret, I would have liked to add some noises, but I didn't have time...
I really appreciated this live, so I decided to do another one, the 19th of April, on stageit.
You can already send me your propositions !
Here are the propositions I received for the first one:
Thanks to Claire, here are some samples of this live:
And here's the result on bandcamp:
See you next week !
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