CutSnake Studio goings on in the studio

8 September 2013

IceBenders “Everything You Know Could Be Wrong”

Filed under: Recording — admin @ 23:00

Finally a new IceBenders release. All on Bandcamp.

CD cover 300p

1 September 2012

Sam Derchie “Nsubeto”

Filed under: Recording — John L @ 13:35

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A song in the classic highlife style of the African Brothers (a band Sam played in while in Ghana).

http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/samderchie

Lead vocals, trumpet, and extra percussion recorded at CutSnake.

2 July 2012

Paul Mbenna and the Lorikeet Orchestra

Filed under: Recording — John L @ 17:46

We did Paul’s vocals for this track here at CutSnake, and I was also involved in the cover design.

CD Baby

Hamsini cover

1 February 2012

IceBenders EP “That Never Works”

Filed under: Recording — John L @ 19:59

IceBenders EP cover Drums, bass, and pedal steel.

Available on Bandcamp.


24 August 2011

Travel report #2: Sun Ra Arkestra

Filed under: Travel — John L @ 13:04

Arkestra live

Sun Ra Arkestra, Philadelphia, June 25 2011.

Audio recording: Love in Outer Space (mp3).

17 August 2011

Analogue and digital (slight return)

Filed under: Recording — John L @ 13:59

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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15 August 2011

Travel report #1: TBC Brass Band

Filed under: Travel — John L @ 01:09

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The TBC (To Be Continued) Brass Band at the Blue Nile in Frenchmen St, New Orleans, July 10 2011.

Audio recording: Why You Worried ‘Bout Me? (mp3).

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13 August 2011

Where ya been?

Filed under: Travel — John L @ 01:03

Yes, a long time between posts.

Some of that time I’ve been travelling in the USA: New York, Philadelphia, Washington, Atlanta, New Orleans, Miami.

I saw bands, and recorded some of them on my newly acquired Tascam DR-08.

Stay tuned for some highlights: the Funk Brothers, Tito Puente Jr, the Sun Ra Arkestra, and the TBC Brass Band. Sure, just as soon as I get busy on the DAW editing the rough live recordings into deliciously polished nuggets of audio niceness.

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8 May 2011

Wild West: Scratch Another Day (Selected Recordings 1980-1981)

Filed under: Recording — John L @ 01:59

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

Mastered at CutSnake in December 2009.

Lots of history…

27 March 2011

Analogue and digital

Filed under: Recording — John L @ 12:40

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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