Archive for the ‘Technical Stuff’ Category

Guest Blog: “How The Art Was Done” by Paul Talbot

Paul's Blog

As you may or may not know I had already created a tee shirt design for the World of Spit. It was a most pleasurable process and made simple by the fact that Lord Zion is a very focused and driven being; we bounced around ideas and quickly came to a most satisfactory conclusion.
So, [...]

Album Mastering: The How-To Guide

Album Mastering

Date: March 6th 2012
Location: Wired Masters, London
Task: Album Mastering
I’m not going to pretend for a second that I know the first thing about mastering.  I don’t.  Well, that’s not entirely true, I know what the desired outcome should be but, how that is achieved is beyond me.  So that is why we use the professionals, [...]

Vikki Receives New EMG’s

Vikki received her brand new EMG TBP Thunderbird shape pick-ups with the magnets in the P style today.  This will be fitted into her new Dean bass to make it sound even more heavy-as-fuck!  Massive thanks to EMG for hooking us up.  Click on this link to view Vikki’s Artist Page on the EMG site!
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Vocal Techniques: Live vs Recording [UPDATED]

Vocal Techniques

I got thinking about the different kind of techniques that a singer has to apply when singing live and when singing in a studio.  It might surprise you to learn that both environments require two completely different – and often opposing – requirements.  This post might also be useful to any singers, or aspiring singers, [...]

Day 19: Fuck Me, We Have A Finished Album!

Saturday 31st July
I’m writing this the day after completion, a bit overwhelmed that it’s all finished. Of course, that isn’t entirely true. For a start, it has to be mastered (this adds the extra sprinkle of fairy dust onto the whole thing and levels the sound out from song to song, it also [...]