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The Hard Truth: There Is No Magic Bullet



I have to be straight with you guys.
If you are hoping to take your recordings and mixes to the next level, don’t look for that one “magic bullet” of a technique, tip, or piece of gear to take you there. It’s just not going to happen.

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Loudness Monitoring Tip

It’s a good idea to use an SPL meter to check your monitoring levels. Most of us listen too loud, both for accuracy reasons and for health reasons. Spend $30 on a Radio Shack SPL meter (the analogue one, not the digital one) and set it for 80/C weighted/Slow (you’ll understand when you get it). Place the device near you pointing at the speakers, maybe on the other side of your keyboard opposite your mouse (you are using a computer right?). Then play some music at the level you usually play it at. The needle should be dancing between 0 and +6. If you peg the needle you’re killing yourself and probably are deliver- ing bass light mixes. If the needle is not moving you’re either using a dead battery or you are one exceptional human being with phenomenal self control on listening levels (and you are probably delivering bass heavy mixes too).

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PROTOOLS IS NOW $600. Boom.

Pro Tools 9It'll run with ANY hardware, so that means that YES, you can edit a full session taken from your HD rig on your laptop using the built in headphone outputs. Science fiction.

Yes, it has delay compensation.

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Waka Waka or The World Cup Song

There is stuff flying around the internet about this and I get a lot of emails asking what the real story is, so here you go.

I was mixing Freshlyground's new record at FLUX in NYC in February after having produced and tracked it in Cape Town in January. We had submitted a song to FIFA for the World Cup anthem called 'Africans' (It was called many things that day, starting with 'Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah'), which we had recorded/mixed/mastered in one day in the middle of the tracking sessions in Cape Town, and had heard nothing of about it since.

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News

Fab Inteviewed by Avid

Monday, 06 February 2012
Fab was interviewed @ NAMM 2012 by Tony Cariddi from Avid.
Watch the video here.

Lauten Audio Atlantis

Tuesday, 24 January 2012
Here is a video of Fab showing the new Lauten Audio Atlantis Microphone.

pureMix @ NAMM 2012

Sunday, 15 January 2012
Puremix will be presenting Universal Audio's new top secret beast.
Fab will be giving seminar at the UA booth EVERY DAY at 1pm, 2pm, 3pm and 4pm.
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