Tagged: compressed

Nick Tolford and Company are like Columbus's version of The Commitments . A bunch of young, (mostly) white people bringing rockified soul music to the people. Except Tolford & Co. write their own tunes that rival stuff sung by mostly dead Motown guys. This Saturday at Carabar the band will release their much anticipated debut, Extraordinary Love. Tolford was kind enough to give me a little window into his world - a world of Ray Charles, The Misfits, Booker T, MF Gnar and "Bed Intruder." [...]

It's been three weeks since our friend Alix Reese was tragically shot in the neck while driving on the east side. Multiple fundraisers have taken place and the support for them has been and continues to be incredible. In yet another selfless effort to raise money for medical expenses, Jacob Wooten has gathered the help of 20 local businesses and musicians to release a special limited-edition record for Alix. The album features 15 different singles, including unreleased tracks by Phantods, Winter Makes Sailors and Wing and Tusk. Only 500 copies will be made, and 100% of [...]

NPR piece on compression and the trending of loudness in modern music. Anchor Robert Siegel interviews legendary mastering genius Bob Ludwig, who has 40 years of experience in sound engineering. He references the following YouTube clip entitled "The Loudness War" as an example of the decline in dynamic range.

A Place to Bury Strangers- Exploding Head (6)For more on A Place to Bury Strangers and their new LP, Exploding Head, go to aplacetoburystrangers.com. And click here to watch a music video for the track "In Your Heart".

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I like chairlift. People don't seem to like them that much. Either way this video is great. Datamoshin is all the rage. Where are my capable datamoshers. Lets make a viddddd.

Every week in the "Shhhh-it!" AnonIMous Super-Secret Music-Biz Interview Series (S-I!AS-SM-BIS for, uh, short) we interview a grizzled music industry veteran via the letter thunderstorm of instant messaging software. Last week, we had an illuminating chat with Joe The Engineer , who has worked as an assistant engineer for five years at a major NYC studio, and whose credits include quite a few big-time pop and hip-hop records. We decided to bring him back for another round, and in this edition, Joe tackles overcompression, underwhelming Autotune usage, and whether hip-hop has lost its fire: [...]

All photos: Robert Jacobs Get Ponytail's entire set at Beatbots A/V Club! Compression have been around for a while (1993 to be exact). To quote front-man Greg Scelsi "probably before most of you could drive." They started the night on a solid, forceful note. Being the first hardcore (with plenty of metal flavorings) band I've probably seen in about a year, I can say they have a fury about them. Their sound is a truly [...]

Today, we enter a new category in our blog. Let's talk a lil bit about production. This time around, we just want to talk about how important it is to compress your sound. In general compression makes your sound especially drums become phat. And for this exact reason we want to let you in our little secret. We've been using this great free compressor called BLOCKFISH . This compressor with extreme setting and extra saturation will make your drum sounds thick and big. So, what are you waiting for? Go to www.digitalfishphones.com and grab it.