This week we have been given a gift. Two of the most talented members of the Jazz fusion community are making a record at Manifold Recording. And they are trying something new: the co-production model of The Miraverse. If you are within 40 miles of Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill, or …
Acoustic Magic (part 2)
In Acoustic Magic (part 1), we talked about techniques for getting great sounds from players in an indie rock band that plays with a horn trio. Now it is time to turn our attention to Hindugrass, a band that brings together Sarod, Tablas, guitar, cajone, percussion, and a string quartet. …
Acoustic Magic (part 1)
In previous blog postings, I previewed that we would have a very busy spring at the studio, and this has indeed come to pass. We’ve done a lot of tracking, a lot of mixing, and not–unfortunately–a whole lot of blogging in the process. Let’s work on that, shall we? There …
How Long Is This Gonna Take? [TrustMeImAScientist]
How Long Is This Gonna Take? asks and answers one of the most important questions that any artist must consider before embarking on a recording project. The summary is pretty simple: while recording technology has dramatically lowered the cost of recording audio, there’s a lot more that goes into making …
A visit from Greenland!
In response to a visit to our blog from Greenland, I updated all the international statistics in the post titled A Global Audience. In addition to many more hits from around the world, the world itself seems to have expanded, with more countries than ever being recognized by Google. Music …
Updates…can't they just write themselves?
Before the studio opened, I had to content myself with taking photos of the construction progress and using Blender to visualize what the final studio might look like. The five years it took to open the studio gave me plenty of time to organize my photos and write stories about …
Hindugrass Recording Sessions
Hindugrass will be recording next week, and they are kicking off their session with a performance on Friday night, April 12th at 8pm. If you have always wanted to be a fly on the wall of a real recording session, the band is inviting a very limited number of people …
Celebrating the Home Town Hero
We live in a paradoxical age: believe nothing unless you have seen it, yet trust outside experts more than the leaders of one’s own community. All my life I have heard the quote “nobody is a hero in their home town” only to discover it’s a paraphrase of a verse …
Competition vs. Validation
When I decided to leave the certainty of multiple steady paychecks to start a new company, everybody I briefed thought there was no possible way it could succeed, and that gave me the confidence that I’d have no competition. The rest, as they say is history. But since that time, …
Zuill Bailey, Superhero
The North Carolina Symphony invited me to dinner on Monday, on stage with Zuill Bailey. I’ve been to fundraising events before, and often they are fun, but I was really excited about this one because Zuill was part of the first-ever session at Manifold Recording. The recording he played on, …