Obviously, heavy rotation of November is The Whirlwind by the giant Transatlantic and the new release by the mythic Magma called Ëmëhntëhtt-Rê. Easily two of the best albums of this year in my opinion. The Whirlwind is a huge epic prog party with a fantastic production (Pete Trewavas bass sound is excellent, as his playing of course), I had aRead more
Some days ago, I found this used M-Audio Oxygen 8 for my new setup. With its 25 keys, it’s the smallest of the family (Edirol PCR50 and Fatar TKM88) but it’ll be great for small places like my new studio corner. The problem is there is no Windows 7 driver yet as it’s an “old” keyboard but it’s currently underRead more
As you can read here, I added some days ago a laptop to my recording setup. I plan to use this laptop mainly to play my VST synths and record my demo tracks here in Paris. I will probably install my Samplitude Pro which I use for audio recording but my main “vst software” was Tracktion 1. Very simple softwareRead more
And its name is : Toshiba Satellite L505-10P! Some weeks ago, I wrote about a mobile recording setup (and asked for your opinon in the forums here) but I was a bit lost in the laptop world. I spent a lot of times reading about laptop models and I finally decided to take the Toshiba road. I’m reallyRead more
October 2009 : Some old prog rock classic of course… Moving Waves, great album which is not just the crazy “Hocus Pocus” song, the 23 minutes long epic “Eruption” is just excellent! QE2 by Mike Oldfield became one of my favourite albums from the artist, his guitar sound and playing are fantastic. Some vintage electronic prog with Force Majeure byRead more
Thinking about recording Spleen Arcana’s second album lead me to the conclusion that I will need a mobile recording setup. I plan to set up a new home studio in Paris but I will have to record vocals in le Refuge as recording vocals is really too loud to be recorded here I guess.
So it’s probably time for me toRead more
These days, I mostly listen to the last cds I bought, all the albums in the picture on the left are new in my cd collection. I received my signed preorder of Guilt Machine. I was really curious to hear this new Arjen Lucassen’s music. Well, it sounds like Ayreon with one voice (a great, versatile, voice by the way)Read more
Custom 77… I introduced you this quite new French brand guitar some weeks ago here.
As I got back a small amp (Vox Pathfinder), I recorded a small video to show how this SG Jr copy sounds. Keep in mind that the sound comes from my digital camera and that I played on a very small amp at low volume.Read more
The second electric guitar I bought twelve years ago is a Les Paul copy from a low cost brand called “Maison”, you can see it on the picture below
I played it quite a lot for the first tracks of The Field Where She Died, then I bought my Fender Classic Player 50 to add a different sound to myRead more
A quite eclectic playlist isn’t it? I’m really into L’Histoire de Melody Nelson by Serge Gainsbourg these days. I’m not really into french music but we still have some classic albums and this is one of them. And I love how this album sounds! My other last discovery is Moondawn by Klaus Schulze. You must think I’m a bit lateRead more
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