1 February 2012 by John L.

Drums, bass, and pedal steel.

Available on Bandcamp.

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17 August 2011 by John L.

Tape is a more natural way to record than digital technology. Yes, if you think that suspending a zillion little magnetic rust particles in plastic and then telling them how to line up as they get dragged past an electromagnet, which has to be fed by a high-level supersonic signal just so the audio doesn’t sound like a buzzsaw, is totally natural.

http://www.emusician.com/tutorials/five_digital_audio_myths_busted/

But does anybody really use the “natural” argument?

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8 May 2011 by John L.

It’s taken a while for this album to become available.

Mastered at CutSnake in December 2009.

Lots of history…

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27 March 2011 by John L.

The attraction of tape and vinyl puzzles me. I’ve recorded to tape, and we had 4- and 8-track machines in the studio during the eighties. They were expensive and awkward to use.

Vinyl leaves me completely cold.

Tom Ellard disses vinyl (and other things): Audio Mouth Breathers

Owsley Stanley (RIP) talks about the near-impossibility of accurate playback from vinyl.

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26 February 2011 by John L.

Now available from CDBaby.

Some percussion and vocals came out of Cut Snake.

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26 February 2011 by John L.

At Gearslutz:

I wouldn’t even consider doing a joint audio project with somebody who was using windows, because they simply don’t get it, and wouldn’t be on the same wave length as I. And if I stepped into a recording studio and saw PC’s running windows only in the control room and no Macs, I’d turn right around and walk out the door, as that wouldn’t qualify as a professional studio, according to my standards.

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4 November 2010 by John L.

Finally a new studio CD from the Okapi faction. (We’re using a slightly different name this time, given the musicians involved.)

We started recording this back in 2007, but put out the live CD before completing this.

We’ll be giving it a proper launch in January 2011, but it’s already up at CDBaby if you want to have a listen.

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9 August 2010 by John L.

This Chinese ribbon mic comes in various colours under various names. Here in Australia it’s available as part of the Legacy brand. The Legacy variation isn’t listed at recording hacks, but a bunch of other re-brandings are.

I got one secondhand, and wanted to open it up and remove some of the mesh and filters. But I couldn’t figure out how to open the case. Finally saw a photo on Michael Joly’s site that made it clear how the covers came off.

Here’s some photos I took that hopefully make the situation clearer. Basically the covers are held on with tabs that slide into slits. My mic seems to have a few broken off…

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17 May 2010 by John L.

The studio album we’ve been working on since finishing Haram Homebrew will be called Plenty.

Should be out this year, but in the meantime, here’s the single at CDBaby: Age of Plenty.

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25 March 2010 by John L.

Here’s a song from our semi-acoustic side project, Kizungu 3.

Nhemamusasa -Kizungu 3

A Zimbabwean mbira song we learnt from Noble Mashawa, with a local lyrical twist.

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