Whitty’s Blog – December 2015
Well then, it’s been quite a while since I wrote my last blog and a whole lot of stuff has happened in that time. A few life changing…
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2nd Album Recording Diary – Part V
November – Bass Reamping, Synths…? Oh yeah, we totally re-recorded a song/ Putting loads of things that have nothing to do with ships on the ship, then burning…
2nd Album Recording Diary – Part IV
October – Guitar and backing vocal recording/ Building the rest of the ship Guitar recording mostly involves me spending all my spare time in THE STUDIO WHICH ISN’T…
2nd Album Recording Diary – Part III
The Rest of September – fucking around with things/ Fucking around with the keel I had a few days away from it, then got stuck back in. Over…
2nd Album Recording Diary – Part II
4th-10th September – Drum and Bass + Vocal recording/Laying the keel I’m buzzing round like a toddler who’s been given too many sweets. DRUM RECORDING IS MY FAVOURITE…
2nd Album recording diary – Part I
Here’s a glimpse into what we’ve been up to. I’ll liken each phase to building a ship, because that’s an analogy that surely won’t have to be stretched…
Runnin’ Down a Dream
They say a mix is never finished, simply abandoned. I can relate to that. It’s a strange thing to spend months working on a song, only to get…
2013
Remembrance Day 2012
I went to visit my dad last year in the frozen reaches of Scotland, and we happened to start having a look through family albums and keepsakes excavated…
2012
Summer Afternoon
Some things just find you. A memory found me today and I’m glad it did. It’s a summer afternoon. Fluffy white clouds drift slowly across the sky, and…
Noise Manifesto
No autotune, no beat detective, no snap to grid, cut and paste, paint by numbers production. That’s pretty much everything I don’t want. There’s plenty of other people…
The Light at the end of the tunnel.
My last blog entry was almost 6 months ago. I’d feel more contrite about that if I hadn’t been busy doing. It’s the old blogger’s cliché – when you’re…
2011
Album Recording Blog #1
Album Recording Blog #1Watch on YouTube I couldn’t have looked more silly if my legs were wiggling about in the air. “Ooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaa… Ok, found it… what note is…
My Take on Recent Events!
Guess Who? You got it, I’m back for round 2 of the Blogging world of bloggages and the same rules apply as the last one: I WILL go…
The Song Does Not Remain the Same
I think the hardest part of writing a great song is knowing when you’ve written a great song. You’d think you would know. Sometimes you do. Sometimes you…
Album blog chapter 1: MENU -> ENTERTAINMENT -> RECORD SOUND.
Have you ever wondered where songs come from? Welcome to 2011: they come from my mobile phone. At least, that’s where the songs we’ll be talking about in…
Whitty’s Blog, Episode 1
Right then me old Chumley Warner’s, this is my first and most probably my last blog on here as I don’t really seem to do incredibly well with…
A Typical CH Gig, Pt. 1
A Typical Gig, Pt. 1 Welcome to this, my first entry in what after some debate I’ve decided to give the rather clumsy title “My Blog About Gigging”. …
The 3 Pillars of Mixing: Water, Cement, Human Souls.
Whisky is becoming the theme linking these blog entries. It’s nearly 1am and though I’m planning on going to bed soon, I’ve got a little remaining of the…
Shake well before serving. Part 1
Mixing Part 1: The tools. There are a number of ways to skin a cat. The same can be said of mixing. Both will leave you with blood…
You are a spark, shining in the darkness.
Vocals should be easy to record. One microphone, sing into it, bam. That’s actually pretty much how it goes, from a technical point of view. On the first…