got a flat tire last night in midtown

got a flat tire last night in midtown.

parked the car in the only open spot on the block, right in front of some fancy Park Ave apartment building. went to meet my significant other at the train. walked back to the car. she doesn’t want me changing a tire while in the road so she waves her scarf to signal the oncoming traffic. Continue reading

colorful paul

new Paul Maddison recording

Dear World- my man Paul Maddison just released his 2nd solo track. He’s a badass and has lyrics about “butter sandwiches.” i had the privilege of producing, recording all the overdubs, mixing, and playing some instruments. we snuck in a little metal moment, too.

check it here: http://paulmaddison.bandcamp.com/track/yer-love

and check paul’s website here: http://www.paulmaddison.com

serious work was whipped by Jason Wexler, Bobby Bananaz, Jim Perry, Steven Salcedo, and Kenny Shaw.

Pro Tools Workflow Part 3 – modifiers, user defaults, and more

In our last couple posts, we dealt with optimizing Pro Tools workflow. In Part 3 we’ll deal with a few more tricks to speed things up

  1. Using Modifiers - Option and Shift+Option are powerful tools. any pointing/clicking that you do to a track (changing an input or output, adding a plugin, adding a send, changing from “waveform” view to “volume,”) can be applied to all your tracks, by holding Option as you do it. holding Shift+Option will cause the operation in question to be applied to all *selected* tracks.Want to quickly mute all tracks? hold Option while clicking “mute.”Want to insert a 7-band EQ III on every drum track? select your drum tracks; hold Shift+Option while inserting the plugin on one of the tracks.Subgrouping all your guitar tracks through a stereo aux? create the aux, set its input bus, then select your guitar tracks, hold Shift+Option, and set their outputs to that bus. Continue reading