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Mature Pine harvest – DIY recording success?

October 15, 2010

DIY recording success?
Pine have been one of Christchurch and New Zealand’s leaders in the indie pop revolution and a few months ago we finished up the recording and mixing of their latest album ‘Books and Magazines’.
This particular recording project was not only one of the last albums to come out of the studio (pre earthquake) [...]

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Julia Deans – A belated ‘Well done little lady’

October 15, 2010

Well done little lady
A while ago (2009) Julia Deans  came to The Sitting Room recording studios to record a bunch of songs for her Debut Album – ‘Modern Fables’. This is just a very short post to say well done Julia, Dave all the musicians that played on it. The album has been released for [...]

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How to shoot, film edit and audio post produce: Zombie deaths

August 15, 2010

Shooting
For those who haven’t been involved in film or audio post production for film, shooting, editing and mixing this amount of footage of this calibre is no easy feat. In fact it’s a time consuming and costly process, but once again Logan and Katie have managed to ace this and the proof is simply [...]

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Hot Hot Foos

June 16, 2010

Well this happened some time ago and I meant to post it when it was exciting, current and super uber cool… but I didn’t.
BUT, back in May I took part in the V48 Hours Film Competition which was pretty fun. I was part of the Ruffell Productions entry and helped out with a spot of [...]

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What have we become? Apple’s new iProTools?

January 23, 2010

It seems as though the world is turning faster and faster, I’m hardly able to keep up. Whether it’s the latest obscure indie music video that’s storming the web, the latest iphone app or even just the latest and fastest way to get weather updates, these days one must have a full time ‘ear to [...]

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The Unfaithful Ways – congrats!

November 30, 2009

Gotta get a record deal, gotta get a record deal!
That has been the catch phrase for young indie musicians for decades, myself included. Hordes of long haired, guitar wielding mumma’s boys religiously following the teachings and trends of ‘Rolling Stone’ or ‘NME’ all pinning their hopes on the fact that it just might be them [...]

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A Special Farewell Tribute Song For Michael Jackson

June 26, 2009

When we heard about MJ’s death this morning we knew something had to be done. We quickly put down the incredibly important work we were doing and set to work trying to create something that would really bring honour to his quickly fading memory.
Guitars came out, tears were shed, sweat was sweated, ideas were bandied [...]

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12 hours, 100+ Facebook Fans & Lots of Love!

May 1, 2009

Yesterday we launched our Sitting Room Facebook Page and eagerly awaited the nothing that would probably happen. But, in just 12 hours we got over 100 new friends signed up to the page – we were proud as punch!
The process was helped along by a very special competition between Ben and I. Ben thought it [...]

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"digidesign and ProTools, it's time to die" – Grim Reaper

April 27, 2009

Recording software: Music industry and studios take note!
Isnt it funny when certain items, software, guitars, shoes, clothes, anything really become what is known as ‘the industry standard’. I find this term and phenomenon totally bi-polar, it’s either perfectly warranted and the item is by far and away the leader of the pack, OR it’s almost [...]

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Sitting Room Recording Featured on Hipster Tracks

March 17, 2009

Last year I wrote and recorded an EP for my side project called The Sneezes. The Sneezes is comprised of Ben on bass, Ivor ‘Pants’ Richards on Drums (nepotism anyone?) and me on vocals, synths and guitars.
Our debut single ‘All We Could Do’ had some measure of success on RDU. Yesterday the track was accepted [...]

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