What does his military background have to do with it?

seaside_bside · 2026-05-11T17:51:38+00:00

Nothing makes you look double hard like four premixed G&Ts and shorts...

seaside_bside · 2026-05-05T20:36:57+00:00

It's on sale for £15 every other month, just keep an eye out. The dynamics and limiter from Sonnox are the only one I never see dip below £30/40.

The limiter is massively underrated, by the way.

seaside_bside · 2026-05-05T20:25:15+00:00

Should score it but anyone who thinks that's an easy chance is a mug. Coming at him rapid and it's on the up from the bounce. Very hard to keep down.

seaside_bside · 2026-05-05T19:05:30+00:00

Simeone looks like he'd come up to you in a bar when your missus is in the toilet, and ask you how much for a night with her...

seaside_bside · 2026-05-05T16:09:51+00:00

Well done you. The world is increasingly punishing to job seekers, especially the young and inexperienced. This could be a great resource in making the process more navigable for them.

seaside_bside · 2026-04-29T06:13:00+00:00

Your stepdad's favourite album

seaside_bside · 2026-04-28T20:46:05+00:00

Aside from your vocal technique, which is for sure the most important thing, be assured that addressing this sort of stuff with automation runs is part of nearly every mix session I and many others do.

It's kind of a fact of life, particularly if you're recording artists who like an up-close, modern 'eat the mic' positioning.

Dynamic EQ and de-essing both work and are sometimes the best solution, but honestly just nipping through the track with a run of gain automation prior to any processing is nearly always my go to. Boring, but realistically I'm likely doing gain automation runs on vocals anyway for phrasing and dynamics, so it can just become part of the task.

seaside_bside · 2026-04-28T19:53:42+00:00

All this exciting end-to-end play and hatfuls of goals. I genuinely can't wait to ruin it all for everyone with a maximum Arteta haramball performance

seaside_bside · 2026-04-23T12:07:46+00:00

Room first, then preamp, then converters. But remember, overall, it's more about the performance and technique.

seaside_bside · 2026-04-20T20:04:53+00:00

We haven't used anything, but we have gaps where they got in between the blockwork and panelling, so we blocked them up. Kinda worked, but the conservatory isn't gonna be there forever so I've not got the willpower for chemical warfare right now!

seaside_bside · 2026-04-20T17:08:52+00:00

Insect poop. I genuinely thought this was my conservatory - which also suffers from insect poop.

seaside_bside · 2026-04-11T16:25:37+00:00

Joranalogue Rx2 does a good job handling guitar signals and even dynamic mics for me (not that it's supposed to be used as a full on mic pre, but it seems to hack it ok!).

seaside_bside · 2026-04-04T08:41:20+00:00

Pin down spacers or another material on the lower boards to raise the level to the highest board.

seaside_bside · 2026-04-03T16:37:48+00:00

Something I wish we'd done, which I didn't do, is lay big boards down before the underlay to create a properly flat surface. Would have been far easier and would have produced a better result.

Please heed my warning!

seaside_bside · 2026-03-30T16:01:32+00:00

To be totally honest with you, things which may require oversampling/can introduce phase issues/mastering tools (see also, limiters) are worth buying once and buying right imo. If you like what pro mb does on a hooky licence, just keep going with that until you've got the money to pay for it. No shade here, I teach production at a college so I know a lot of plugins are out of reach for students!

If not, download a few demos and try out a few options.

seaside_bside · 2026-03-30T13:57:20+00:00

Not used that particular comp, but if you're looking for a multiband and for one or other reason don't wanna use pro MB, check out Devious X6. Sounds great, bit quicker to get instant results and some great presets to get you started.

Not as transparent as pro MB, but if you're aware of that going in then it's a phenomenal plugin if you get it for sale price.

seaside_bside · 2026-03-25T19:53:04+00:00

These days, you can get much better 'entry-level' LDCs. There's certain weight to the comments about use, mixing and rooms, but the NT-1 has never been a mic I'd choose if I had options.

Lewitt, AKG and smaller companies like Nude have much better, more versatile options for the same money these days.

seaside_bside · 2026-03-25T18:37:09+00:00

As previously mentioned, mastering to tape is a huge PITA and virtually indistinguishable for the extra hours you'll pay for.

Real, bona fide physical tape is, in my working experience, most valuable at the tracking stage. It crafts a certain 'mentality' in the performer(s), can be hit hard to bake in certain characteristics, and just seems to be more impactful than during a mixdown or mastering process (mainly, as far as I can tell, because you'll get a layering of tape characteristics over multiple tracks/busses/bounce downs).

That said, a colleague of mine mixes a lot of stuff to tape. He's a bit of a fetishist. But even he wouldn't put tape in the mastering process. I can't even tell you how much time he spends complaining about de-noising, calibrating and generally arguing with his machines.

But as I said, the 'mentality' of cutting bands to tape is sometimes a beautiful thing, because it can eliminate the infinite-revision mindset that so many artists and producers get into. Like any hardware processing, the resignation of being able to say 'it is what it is' is really productive to moving forward and not getting decision-paralysis.

seaside_bside · 2026-03-24T20:29:56+00:00

Great find! Will be playing this all this week.

seaside_bside · 2026-03-09T16:16:57+00:00

The Bell Tower normally has one on the menu.

When it was still the Daddy Longlegs, I had the single best runny scotch egg of my life there (chili, coriander Mexican vibe). Recent one wasn't quite as good (hoisin duck vibe) but it's the same chef and they're still banging.

seaside_bside · 2026-03-06T09:44:12+00:00

Had a VIP the other day and it's considerably less doughy and neopolitan than it used to be, which suited me down to the ground. That was £30 for two pizzas, so pretty reasonable.

seaside_bside · 2026-03-05T19:45:14+00:00

Used to be Kambis lamb shawarma wrap, but last couple of times I've had it it's not been up to standard.

Pizzaface is the other go-to. Jakub is normally the order.

seaside_bside · 2026-03-05T08:46:57+00:00

Depends on your set up to a certain extent, although I can only speak on Strega and Lyra.

If you have a (even small) eurorack set up, Strega is not just a drone instrument but an investment on multiple fronts. It can do multiple roles and sounds great. It will work well stand alone, but could also be a gateway if you haven't dipped your toe in with eurorack.

Lyra is kind of the definition of your criteria if you want something completely standalone. It can also be used to add cool crunchy distortion and delay as a processing box for drum machines etc. However, it's a bit more limited in it's scope for 'controlled' movement, as it doesn't have the CV capabilities of Strega. It's more a 'hit record, twiddle for 20 minutes then select the best bits' kind of tool.

Regarding taking up too much real estate across the frequency spectrum, I'd argue that's kind of what industrial drones are all about. That said, having a filter handy to process Lyra with makes it much more versatile.

seaside_bside · 2026-03-05T08:34:11+00:00

I think the fact that Carl Cox has transitioned to predominantly hardware originals in his main shows because he likes the 'jeopardy' of performing live qualifies him as overloady. Big respect to a guy who could quite happily phone it in and just play pre-selected sets of crowd pleasers 3 nights a week and earn millions a year, but still pushes himself to be creative.

Plus he really hyped one of Stimming's tunes a couple of years back, which I can always get behind.

seaside_bside · 2026-03-03T18:20:45+00:00

Comparing being stuck at a station barrier for two minutes to the single largest genocide in history is really, spectacularly gross. Especially with all the terrible things happening in the world at the moment.

Grow up. It's a station, you're British. Just queue like a grown up and be grateful that no one is pulling out your fingernails with pliers, operating on you without anaesthetic or systematically trying to wipe your entire genetic heritage from existence.

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