• Weekdays are booked out with teaching work until June.
• I am still available for mastering at weekends.
• Currently mixing the Buds live, and Fionbarra’s album.
• Redesigning studio in the new location, by the sea. Superstition holds that studios by the sea are the best 🙂
• Casio VZ-1 keyboard for sale- lovely synth action, 3 mod wheels and assignable foot controller, cool sounding synth. I am changing to the rackmomunting version due to Feng Shui 🙂
I did location sound for Conal Creedon’s Christmas in Cork feature The Boys of Fairhill, recording the lads singing in the North Mon. To be broadcast Christmas tonight I think…
• Still busy. David O’Connell and I set up his gear in the Honan Chapel to record a choir recently. Here are some pics.
• Got an Electro Harmonix Small Stone Phaser, and a valve pre amp for the Transcriptors record player.
• The studio will be moving to a new acoustically treated location shortly, to facilitate mastering, audio post and composing. That’s where the rewards are 🙂 In future, drums will be recorded on location when necessary.
It’s been a busy month! But I still have time to do a DJ set at the liquid lounge this Thursday. More info here.
Please come along if you like melodic electronic music!
• Robert Plant is at the studio now:
That’s him there in the corner.
• I got an Ensoniq Mirage sampler too.
• MAKING PICTURES has just been short listed for the BEST DOCUMENTARY FILM AWARD at the
Boston Irish Film Festival November 8-11 2007. Irish premiere is Oct 15th 2007 at the Corona Cork Film Festival. European premiere is on the 20th October 2007 at the ARTECINEMA FILM FEST in Naples, Italy.
• Funny thing. I used my glockenspiel on Declan’s film. It’s also seeing some use on that street singer’s album I’m doing right now. Turns out The Feeling use the same one! So it must be good 🙂 See here.
• Cleaned the sink, it was manky.
• The MX1000 is so good!
• Room dimensions added to gear list.
• Making Pictures has been selected for ArteCinema as well as the Cork Film Festival.
• Rebel Underground has been selected for the Cork Film Festival also.
• Upright Pianos now available in Emulator X2 format. New shop here.
• Take a look at the latest studio pictures here.
• Doing another documentary about the Air India disaster, this time for Discovery Channel.
• Just completed audio post for No Go, an educational film about joyriding. More info soon…
• One of Cork’s best known street singers has started an album project with me.
• Just for fun, here are some pics from Thomas Dolby’s classic album, which we’re covering.
Just got a very very nice weighted keyboard, an Akai MX1000, it’s also a nice sounding digital piano.