Springtime 1994. I’m sitting at a table with super-diva Donna Summer—in an absurdly expensive Italian restaurant in Manhattan. We're both sampling out-of-this-world spaghetti carbonara and discussing, for 2 hours, what I can and can not put on screen in a…
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MORE ABOUT HOW I MASTER MY OWN MUSIC
You might (or might not) notice, when listening to my music, that I don’t master my tracks as loudly as they could be.
But first things first. You might be wondering, "What in the world is mastering?"
Well, mastering happens…
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REALLY SCARY: MY FIRST LIVE SHOW [225,000 PEOPLE!]
A quarter of a million people is a lot.
Seriously, a lot.
A lot a lot.
Remember that old saying "be careful what you wish for because you might get it"? Well, that applies to this story because — I…
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HOW I SECRETLY RECORDED MY FIRST TRACKS IN THE STUDIO OF A FAMOUS TV EVANGELIST
I never studied music formally but around the age of 6 I did take maybe 3 or 4 piano lessons from a very elderly and very mean lady who liked to slap the tops of my hands if I…
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HOW TO RECORD AN ALBUM IN YOUR BEDROOM
These days there's no reason why you can't record a full blown album in your own bathroom, if you know what you're doing. Actually, I wouldn't try it in a bathroom because there's never enough electrical outlets in there.
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CREATING "THE SECRET LIFE OF BOYS"
Long before I DREAM DEEP this article focuses on the first album I recorded in 2001, THE SECRET LIFE OF BOYS:
BOY SEVENTEEN
The first thing that I wrote in January 2001 - in my new apartment in Southwest DC…
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MASTERING YOUR OWN MIXES: IT'S NOT THAT HARD
Amongst all the mysteries in the business-of-recording-music there is one that strikes fear into the hearts of musicians and artists the world over to a much greater extent than just about anything else. Especially if you are a so called…
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OUT WITH THE OLD, IN WITH THE NEW
The coolest thing I've done lately is upgrade my home studio gear. Out went the 10 year Dell and in came a brand new HP Z-Book Mobile Workstation and an external 20" monitor. I also stopped using the old SONAR…
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YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH: THE INFAMOUS DEADMAU5 POST
A lot of Electronic Music people have read the infamous Deadmau5 post which appeared on his blog quite a while back. The other day a friend of mine and I were rehashing it because I’m thinking seriously of doing some…
Read moreSIGNING WITH MONDO TUNES
After having been out of the on-line stores for a little over a month---3 of my albums (The Secret Life of Boys, Rush Push, and Remixes Demos & Bootlegs) are back in a big way. Thanks to the fine people…Read more