Steve Vai – Jemini Distortion Pedal Demo

Steve Vai – Jemini Distortion Pedal Demo

3 July 2009

This is a video clip to promote the new distortion pedal from Ibanez, Jemini. It’s a twin pedal, so the video came up with 2 Steve Vai talk and jam together. The Quality of video & audio is good. Timing is perfect.

Valuable guidelines for making Sound Design demo reel

Valuable guidelines for making Sound Design demo reel

2 July 2009

I’ve just finished reading “Guidelines for Making a Sound Design Demo Reel”, a blog post in audiocookbook.org by Kyle Vande Slunt. He shares how he created his sound design demo reel. This is very useful since I’ve never known anything about this before.

[Free] Pro Tools QuickStart Guide

[Free] Pro Tools QuickStart Guide

1 July 2009

Here’s another good & free resource for me to get started on Pro Tools after finished the Method One DVD. I knew about this free quickstart guide from someone via Twitter (sorry that I can’t remember who).

Pro Tools get started

Pro Tools get started

30 June 2009

I got Digidesign MBox 2 mini more than 6 months ago. I bought it because I want to learn how to use Protools but I rarely use it so far. I’ve just made up my mind a few days ago that I should get started with Pro Tools. At least, I should make it worth spending money on this MBox.

Did Apple hurt Universal Audio?

Did Apple hurt Universal Audio?

29 June 2009

I read the news about Universal Audio’s UAD-2 SOLO/Laptop yesterday. It’s an interesting product to use on the go. 1-DSP chip in a pocket-sized ExpressCard to power up laptop is many people look for. No break-out box, no cable, no external power adaptor, these make perfect mobile solution. But, what has just happened to ExpressCard slot on MacBook Pro?

drag audio file from iTunes into DAW

drag audio file from iTunes into DAW

29 June 2009

I’m finding the way to manage sound effect library on my mac. On windows, my DAW is Nuendo and I use Foobar2000 as music player & sound FX manager

The Road to Happiness in Your Work

The Road to Happiness in Your Work

28 June 2009

I saw this pic several weeks ago via someone in Twitter, probably @iMenn (owner of Wordpress theme I’m using). It attracted me immediately. This diagram describes the way to balance 3 field of working; what we do well, what we want to do, and, what we can be paid to do.

Choosing DAW for my mac : DP6?

Choosing DAW for my mac : DP6?

25 June 2009

I’ve been a Nuendo user on PC for a few years. Now I’m trying to switch to mac, and thinking about new DAW. Nuendo isn’t bad but it’s costly. Here are my choices.