June’s Going Huge List
Going Huge is:
Jack Johnson, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Shinedown
So So is:
Taking Back Sunday, AFI
In two years you won’t remember:
My Chemical Romance, Acceptance, Panic! At the disco
Archive for June, 2006
Computer Based Audio Recording 101
I am going to start a series of posts on audio recording, mainly for my own benefit, but also for people out there who might benefit as well (Sweens).
This first post will cover the basics of computer based audio recording. Whether you are recording a podcast or a full band, the principals are the same; sound waves are captured/generated by a microphone/instrument and then travel to a audio to digital converter, this converter converts the audio waves to a string of ones and zeros and then your recording sequencer of choice records and stores this data on your computer. This is about as basic as one can describe this process, and in reality it isn’t much more complicated than that.
Dusk and Summer, Liberation Transmission
Two of my favorite bands release brand new albums on the same day! How cool is that. Dashboard Confessional’s “Dusk and Summer”, and Lostprophets “Liberation Transmission” were rocking my iTunes yesterday. Now that my ear drums have stopped ringing and I have given each album a good listening to, I will tell ya what I think.
I blogged earlier about the release of Dashboard Confessional’s Dusk and Summer, and even though I had listened to the album on MTV’s the leak before purchasing the album (yes I bought it), I was still stoked to have it in my hand (or at least on my computer). I personally think this album is slightly heavier than “A Mark, A Mission, A Brand, A Scar” (which was also all electric). The only “acoustic” song on this album is the title track, but it still features some electric guitar in the background. Another great album from Chris and the boys, which will probably open the eyes of some new fans that initially wrote Dashboard off because of the emotional acoustic albums Chris put out in Dashboards infancy. If you liked the acoustic stuff (like me) then this album is no different, it’s just plugged in!
Now onto Losprophets; a band from south Wales that I probably haven’t mentioned too much on my blog, but have been listening to for a couple years now. I first got into them after purchasing their previous album “Start Something” for the song “Last Train Home” and have been hooked ever since. “Liberation Transmission” is a good album, but I think they may be trying to cash in on the “Last Train Home” type song success by writing mostly pop songs and nothing really over the top as they did on “Start Something”. Don’t get me wrong, this album is worth buying, but if you’re looking for songs like “We are Godzilla, You are Japan” or “We Still Kill the Old Way”, they are not on this album.
In conclusion these albums are both worthy of a listen and even a purchase, so blow the dust of your iTunes accounts and pick em up!
And speaking of brand new music……. another favorite band on mine “Brand New” has started the final mixing of their long awaited new album, which is supposed to drop later this year (no official date yet)….. Stay tuned!
Back from the great outdoors
I survived the 7th annual college roommate camping trip this weekend! It was great to see everyone and just relax for a couple days. I haven’t been water skiing in probably 10 years or so, but I decided to try it again. I got up ok, but then became cocky and tried dropping one ski. Doing a face plant at say 20 or 30mph with one eye open isn’t cool. That and the fact that my arms were killing me, pretty much ended my water skiing adventure. Other than that there wasn’t much out of the ordinary; drinking, and eating a lot of greasy food cooked on the fire. Check out the pictures
I used to be able to ride back in the day!
Today at work I got a little bored so I started searching Google and yahoo (during break of course) for “Brett driscoll” just to see what came up (come on you know you all do it). So anyways I would normally search Google but for the heck of it I tried out Yahoo to see what came up. To my surprise I found Western New York Motocross Association’s 1996 Summer Series race results online with yours truly taking 4th place in the 125 beginners class!!!! 1996! I was 15 years old! No one will find that amusing but I think it’s funny. I can’t believe that stuff is on the internet……….especially for 1996.
Those were the days……… the days were if I broke my leg riding dirt bikes it just meant I didn’t have to go to school. Now I wouldn’t be able to go to work, or make any money if I got hurt! I still have a bike, but don’t get to ride it that often (because I am lazy and don’t own a truck). That was a fun summer of driving all over New York state racing different tracks and enjoying being a young kid with nothing to lose. Not to toot my own horn, but for never racing motocross till that summer I did quite well even though it was the beginner class lol.
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