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Orientation '09 – Day 5: Katchafire, Soulsystem and sexy sound

March 13, 2009

Day 5: Katchafire, Soulsystem and sexy sound
Today the DBX driverack arrived, finally! Stoked, I really was. I have been desperately wanting to adjust the cross over frequencies and the time alignment. Just had a fiddle and instantly the system and room is now tight and singing like a princess (is that a  good thing?… do [...]

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Orientation '09 – Day 4: Autozamm, The Midnight Youth and Evy Lies

March 13, 2009

Day 4: Autozamm, The Midnight Youth, Evy lies and CRANKING the system.

I arrived at the venue today to find legendary Tube amp ‘Dr’ Guy Benfield standing at the FOH console already playing Toto’s – Africa loud as hell through the PA… I could only smile from ear to ear when I saw his beady [...]

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Orientation '09 – Day 3: Emerging New Zealand Music Artists night

March 13, 2009

Day 3: Emerging New Zealand Music Artists night
With the booze fuelled Toga party, and the ragging Metal Mania night under our belts the next night on the event list was Emerging artist night. Featuring 3 emerging young bands from around the country I really enjoyed tonight a lot despite the fact that the turn out [...]

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Orientation '09 – Day 1: Setting up the PA and tuning the room

March 12, 2009
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Ok, it’s Tuesday morning (3rd March 09) and I am currently on a plane to Auckland having just come off the back of 8 shows at The University of Canterbury’s O-week , or Orientation 2009. I am feeling pretty jaded right now, but have kept a small diary of the days I spent there mixing [...]

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Pro Tools 8 – Test

February 17, 2009

Today we installed ProTools 8 on the studio computer. This latest release from Digidesign is basically a complete rebuild of probably the most popular audio recording and editing software around the world.

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