My Guitar Case: 2012

Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Film trailer sound track experiment

So I recently bought Native Instrument' Komplete 8 ultimate.
There are way too many sounds in there so I though I should start some kind of project.
Project that can simply touch each area of sounds.
In my first experiment, I have chosen to do some sound tracking.
Perhaps sound track for movie trailer.

Here it is,

Mountain lion + logic pro + komplete 8

So the Mountain Lion is finally here and lot of DAW owners are probably wondering
"is this new os gonna work with my DAW?"
I have seen mass failure when Apple launched 'Lion'.
I owned apogee duet at that time and the lot of people was having a driver issue which
did not go away for weeks.
This got me scared and made me stay on the Snow Leopard until now.

This time though, I woke up and saw Mountain Lion on the app store, I just downloaded it
and installed it without a second thought.

Pretty crazy thing I did.. since I am on the middle of a recording session..
but.. Time machine has my back so I was not too worried.

Okay so does logic pro and komplete 8 work with new os x Mountain lion?

Yes!! in my case.
I have late 2010 macbook pro running Logic pro 9 and Komplete 8 ultimate.
I did not load every single instruments from Komplete but seems like most of it works fine.
I pulled my current project in logic and things are popping hard! Great!

I have focusrite liquid saffire 56 and it did not work when I first installed the new OS but
I re-installed Mix Control 3 and its back on running.

One thing I hate about the new OS is..
Airplay mirroring is not available on my mac
Why?
I only had this computer for 2 years so it's fairly a new computer.
I am able to use airplay mirroring with Airparrot app.
Darn you Apple. Hear me now and support 2010 models too!.

Cheers,

Friday, April 6, 2012

John Coltrane solo transcription

Few weeks ago I had a chance to see some of John Coltrane's transcriptions.

and oh my lord!!!

Sheeet of music

Thursday, April 5, 2012

Best beer in Canada

Is of course my favorite Rickard`s beer

They have Rikard's RED,BLACK and White.

They taste fantastino

Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Human pancake

Just made human looking pan-cake
..
Maybe raccoon looking one.

Guitar pick collection

Different guitar, amps and strings have their own unique sound.

When we are talking about 'sound', guitar picks have huge role in it.

I have tried many different types of guitar picks.

The one that I use the most these days is one on the top right.

It is a stone pick.

yeah,, STONE PICK.

Don`t worry, they dont break your strings.

They actually sound very mellow and clear.

Google stone picks and get yourself one!

The new Ipad light leakage

I own Ipad 1 and was 100% satisfied with what Apple have done to this lovely thing.

When Ipad 2 came out, It did not really hit me because there was not

much of difference except camera.

But when Ipad 3 came out, I had to pre-order it because it was a killer.

So I was so excited when I first got it.

After I put screen protector and played with for about 10 days, I noticed something.

While I was lying down on my sofa, I saw a light coming out of Ipad.

Normally, you can not see it but when I lower it down to one

specific angle, I see light leakage.

I thought,

Oh my lord why is it happening to me..

I had to wait three weeks to get this one and I had to return it back.

I had a engraving at the back so there was no unit-swap.

I was lucky to find out about this within 14 days.

Check your Ipads.

Adam Rogers

I think Adam Rogers is one of the best guitar player in modern time.
He is versatile player who can play any style of music and that is not easy.
I first saw him at the Rex Hotel Jazz bar with Ari Hoenig and Smashing Pumpkins
This trio sounded like something that I have never heard before.
They were playing lots of odd time stuff that I just had no idea what time signature they were in.
I wish I shot some videos so that I can share how I felt that night.

This was his rig.
What a man!!
no pedal board!

These Days, I listen to this album a lot.

Contemporary jazz album that features lots of guitar-listic melodies and playing.

and Chris Potter just rocks.

I went to my friends house one time and he played Chris Potter album that was live.

Adam Rogers was in that album and he was playing some pop stuff.

His guitar solo sounded like he was a total 'pop' guy who spent his life playing

pop music.. and he is not!! he is just a monster!

I tried to download this album from Itunes and it was not there.

I looked around the local music stores and "not surprise!" nobody had it.

I ordered it from American Amazon because Canadian Amazon did not have it.

Tunes in this album is not even on the youtube.

And believe me.. this album is something.

I was knocked out.

Ordinary day in Toronto

One ordinary day, instead of taking a train to school I took the street car.

You encounter lots of things on a street car.

Coolest thing ever. This guy had no collar on his dogs (isn..t it illegal?)
As soon as he got on the street car, these dogs fell into sleep.
On one stop, he gets up and these two dogs suddenly follows.
Cool