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We’re really excited about all the upgrades going on here at AtticBoy.com. We just moved from WordPress.com to our own server and are working on a total site redesign, so have a look around at some of the new stuff and check back soon for more!
I’ve been doing a lot of live sound lately so I thought I’d talk about a few important comparisons between studio and live mixing. In many ways live is similar to studio mixing, but in some ways it is a lot different, particularly in smaller gigs where they don’t do a full sound check for [...]
Thanks to skype, we got video conferencing set up now between the control room and the live room. Sorry for the bad pictures but check it out!
Yeah, I said it. And I sometimes get flack for it, but the truth is, imho, the only thing that Pro-Tools has going for it is that it’s the industry standard. Here are the main reasons I prefer Reaper: – Even my biggest projects load in seconds – Uses less computer resources – Never crashes, [...]
Had a good photo shoot yesterday with rapper Professor Squid, cohort of Dr. Octopus. These two cephalopods are in the beginning stages of Prof. Squid’s debut album, Kiss the Squid. We’ve recorded one track for fun, just to lay it down and it turned out pretty good, click here to listen. Professor Squid – She [...]
Happy new year everyone, we’re bringing in the new year with some new additions; a new header for the site and the Attic is spreading…. That’s right, not only is the word spreading about the attic, but the attic is spreading into the house. Sometime this month we will begin using the living room as [...]
Attic Boy’s sister studio, RVA Studios, tied for best studio in Richmond in OneWayRichmond.com’s year end music awards! Aaand, Joe Threat, regular shredder of Octopus Drummer beats, was also on the list for best rapper. Congratulations guys, it’s great to be working with some of Richmond’s best. Check out the whole list here
The new album Down with the Sun by Aeon Yahweh out today! Click here to download
Since I talked about mixing in the last post, and I’ve been getting a lot of mastering work lately, I thought I would talk a little about mastering. Even more often than with mixing, people don’t know what mastering is or what the process entails. Some think mastering is just a process of limiting songs [...]
While mixing may not be the most important part of the process, it is essential to creating a cohesive and complete song that has a life of it’s own. Sometimes mixing even gets overlooked or underestimated as a process, some assume it is simply a matter of getting the volume of each instrument right and [...]
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