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Bad Buzz?

September 10, 2010

We got word yesterday that our building is officially unsafe after Saturday’s earthquake. It’s been a bit of a weird ride as soon after the quake an engineer thought the building was mostly fine. We even started cleaning up.
Yesterday though we learned that the building has some pretty serious structural damage. Pretty soon after [...]

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Audio Post Production – Who cares

August 16, 2010

Audio Post Production for TV and Film.. Who cares?
When you think about it as a % your movie or tv watching experience surely depends on the sound about 50% as the visuals also about 50%, right? . The finer details could be argued that either is slightly more important at given times or depending on [...]

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Audio post-production: ADR recording

August 16, 2010

ADR and Hell Pizza
Audio post production, Sound fx, the soundtrack and audio post mixing for film and TV is often under estimated and overlooked by the general public in the finished product. Often if the music and audio post production mix is done REALLY well it’s designed to not be noticed, in fact it’s [...]

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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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Busting my balls to ‘make it’

February 6, 2010

Busting your balls in the strangest of the ‘industries’
The older I get the more I understand that there really isn’t a ‘top secret’ formula or series of events that makes one band or musician more popular or successful than others. In my youth I thought there must’ve been some secret that all the top bands [...]

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Some more pics of Eastern Album

February 6, 2010

The Eastern’s 2nd Album
The wonderfully talented Michael Edge-Perkins, and his gorgeous partner in crime ‘Sylvia’, joined us for a couple of nights in the wood cabin. While they were there Michael shot a bunch of great photos. Simply enjoy.

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Environment vs Vibe vs Acoustic Perfection vs Whiskey

February 5, 2010

Environment vs Vibe vs Acoustic Perfection vs Whiskey

I am a firm believer in not only creating a good ‘vibe’ for the band to record in but making sure the entire experience of recording surpasses anything they’ve dealt with in the past. There are many thoughts and theories behind the art of ‘recording music, capturing [...]

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Recording in a wood cabin – Jan 2010

February 4, 2010

Give me a woody!

Ok, let me start by saying that in no way do I want the following posts to sound like a verbal or literal wank fest of the people involved, it is a legitimate and accurate description of the facts (with a little subjective offering thrown in for good measure).

Exactly 1 month [...]

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Conor Oberst on Letterman.

July 8, 2009

Just a quick post about this lovely clip. Oberst’s new band is so hot! Check it out!

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Client: University of Canterbury

April 29, 2009

Client: University of Canterbury
Medium: Radio Commercial
Our Role: Creative, Location Sound, Production
UC has a brand kept fresh with the use of students on billboards, magazine ads and promotional materials. In the past, UC’s radio ads had remained unrelated to the rest of the advertising campaign. The Sitting Room was tasked with bringing the ads in to [...]

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