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Magical Marla Jean video

March 21, 2009

Marla Jean McKenzie @ The Harbour Sessions, Wunderbar, Lyttelton.
The Harbour Sessions is a bi-monthly showcase of Christchurch and New Zealand’s underground, DIY singer/songwriters and has been running for a few months now. The Sitting Room recording studios has been involved since day one providing the live sound for the night and as of last month [...]

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Wildman Hillbilly Fuzz Rock

March 18, 2009

Boss Christ live @ The Harbour Sessions, Wunderbar, Lyttelton.
The Harbour Sessions is a bi-monthly showcase of Christchurch and New Zealand’s underground, DIY singer/songwriters and has been running for a few months now. The Sitting Room recording studios has been involved since day one providing the live sound for the night and as of last month [...]

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Orientation '09 – Day 6: The Mint Chicks, Liam Finn & The Bats

March 17, 2009

Day 6: The Mint Chicks, Liam Finn & The Bats
Last night went really well although was a little quieter than I was hoping but I am pretty pumped about tonight’s show. 3 of my favourite kiwi bands of all time all on one night, it’s as though the event organiser put tonight together especially for [...]

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How Improve Your Home Recordings

March 17, 2009

Just read a very informative article from the great guys are Home Tracked offering some excellent but really simple tricks and tips to improve your home recordings. You can read the full article here: Improve Your Recordings and Mixes, on the Cheap.
I just want to mention a couple of the tips that really do work (we [...]

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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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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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A brief look at Coldplay's studio

March 12, 2009

In the video Chris Martin gives the interviewer a quick tour of the Coldplay studio in Camden (studio part starts at 1m 19s). Of particular interest is the list of ‘rules’ on the wall one of which is that Coldplay will never write an album that is longer than 43 mins or has more than [...]

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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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