Archive for May, 2007

Nice Grapes: a wine blog by complete amateurs, for complete amateurs

Angela and I have been wanting to keep a diary of the wine we drink for a while now, and last night I had the bright idea to keep our results in a blog format. Thus, Nicegrapes was born.
Of course, we no little to nothing about grapes, regions, vineyards, et cetera, but we know what [...]

Recording Drums At Home

Tomorrow, Todor and I will be tracking some drums at his place in Little Italy. His room, actually a converted living room in an apartment, has supplied some my favorite drum sounds as of late. You, too can get amazing drum sounds armed with a small pro tools rig, some mics and a couple of [...]

Old Jingles and GPS

Scuba Maps is the best!
Scuba Maps is our nickname for Microsoft Streets and Trips 2007 with GPS Locator [DVD]
I don’t know how we got by before GPS navigation. The QEW was all blocked up, so we took a little detour through picturesque suburban Hamilton.
I’m really into old Jingles (pre globalization of advertising) When we used [...]

Hooked on Live

I’ve been screwing around with Ableton Live 6 for about a week now and I’m hooked.
Now, I’ve been using SAW software for 13 years now, and Live is the most radical shift for me since I started using VSTi instruments. Finally a program that takes away the learning curve and lets you just CREATE!
I started [...]