Halcyon Sky (Debut EP) – Day 11

« 2 May 2014 | 21:26 | Music Production/Studio Recording | No Comments »

Greetings all. It’s been a very quiet Friday evening so I took advantage of that fact to get some progress time in on the EP. Tonight I continued on one of the more chilled tracks and have finished the entire arrangement. I got a little work in on it last night and afterwards popped in […]



Halcyon Sky (Debut EP) – Day 10

« 20 April 2014 | 17:49 | Music Production/Studio Recording | No Comments »

Day 10. Ok, so each track on the EP is at some level of development. Some are ready to mix and master, some are just snippets that need to be arranged and so on, others are sort of at the midway point. As said in the last post, collaboration track with C3 is arranged and […]



Chronicles of A Remix – Vol.2: Stop It Now/Karlina Veras – Pt.1

« 4 May 2011 | 14:10 | Indie Artists, Logic/Logic Pro/Logic Pro 8, Music Production/Studio Recording | No Comments »

Greetings Crew… Back with another edition in the series entitled “Chronicles of A Remix”. In this edition, I’ll bring you in on a song I’m producing for Santo Domingo born, London-based vocalist, Karlina Veras. Karlina and I connected via Twitter as a result of her tweet requesting collaboration with a producer for some tracks she […]



Chronicles of a Remix: I’m Walkin’/Mary Mary – Day 8 (The Sendoff)

« 26 April 2011 | 22:47 | Indie Artists, Logic/Logic Pro/Logic Pro 8, Music Production/Studio Recording, Remixing, Technology | 1 Comment »

Sup crew… I just finished the final base arrangement of the mix. Added a little track automation to the acappella track, as well as a jazzy guitar riff towards the end. I tend to like using a nice combination of a clean tone with just the right delay on it. Here’s a screenshot of the […]



Chronicles of a Remix: I’m Walkin’/Mary Mary – Day 2

« 3 April 2011 | 22:16 | Logic/Logic Pro/Logic Pro 8, Minidisc: The Platform, Remixing | 2 Comments »

Day 2 – Ok, I have the first two tracks kickin’ off this tune. I know that at some point, I’ll probably chop the vocals up, and some track automation, etc. As mentioned in the audio clip above, I’m thinking of some specific vocal samples to add, if I can find them. For this version […]



“Left Coast Flow” (Thai-Roc Instrumental Mix) Pt. 1

« 27 February 2011 | 2:54 | Logic/Logic Pro/Logic Pro 8, Music Production/Studio Recording | 5 Comments »

Ok.. hope everyone’s well. Some of you may remember seeing some posts about a P5 Audio West Coast Detox beat contest I entered last month. I follow them on Twitter and check out the free samples they always post for their contests. While I’d download some packs along the way, I happened to like this […]



Hardware vs Software: Tools of musical composition

« 19 February 2011 | 13:44 | Logic/Logic Pro/Logic Pro 8, Music Production/Studio Recording | 2 Comments »

Hey crew… Hope all is well. It’s been a minute since I posted a blog, but I’m back. Been pretty busy between various music projects, work, fam, life, etc. This post is sorta related to the last few as its on the subject of how we, as musicians, compose music and the tools we use. […]



Sample Library Organization – Making Workflow Efficient

« 26 November 2010 | 21:04 | Logic/Logic Pro/Logic Pro 8, Music Production/Studio Recording | 3 Comments »

Greetings… Thanks for stopping by. Some of you may have read a three part series I did recently on Sampling and Music Compostion. Over the last two days (Thanksgiving morning and evening, and this evening), I decided to gather up all the downloaded sample libraries, construction kits and various samples spread out over two Macs […]



Apple’s Logic Studio 8 Tutorials

« 10 November 2010 | 18:52 | Logic/Logic Pro/Logic Pro 8, Music Production/Studio Recording, The Music Industry | No Comments »

Though there are rumors of Logic 10 on the horizon, I thought I’d post tutes for Logic 8, the DAW of choice for me. Logic 8 Overview Logic 8 Recording Logic 8 Arranging Logic 8 Overdubbing Logic 8 Editing Audio Logic 8 Editing MIDI Logic 8 Mixing Logic 8 Automation Logic 8 Finishing The Mix […]



A Day In The Life #1 – The Lab – 23 Oct 10: Yamaha TG77 Synth Strings

« 23 October 2010 | 22:14 | Logic/Logic Pro/Logic Pro 8, Music Production/Studio Recording | 3 Comments »

Just playing around with some of my rackmount synths, the Yamaha TG77, seeing what sounds I can incorporate into the balance of the CD project, as well as other ones. I recently read a quote by Brian Transeau, remixer, film scorer, electronic musician and composer, in the October 2010 issue of Future Music: “I have […]