that space thing…

myspace mania… what some recent studio visitors are up to…

Susan Levine
Natalia Zukerman
Patti DeRosa
Joyce Andersen
Harvey Reid (not on myspace? come on Harvey!)
Mark Erelli
Spirit Fiddle
Chris O’Brien
Ken Bonfield
Joel Ninesling (okay, Joel isn’t on myspace, either)
Meg Rayne
Roy Davis
Vance Gilbert

Upgrading is fun.

Yesterday I moved from a Mac G4 1.42 dual to a G5 2.7 dual. Copied the hard drive across, moved the 424 card… all looked good to go.

DP needed to be re-authorized… no big deal, find the manual, good to go.

Oops, Atmosphere and Stylus need to be re-authorized. No big deal. Move the iLok over and my Waves and Oxford plugs work. All seems good.

Still on 10.4.7 though.. maybe upgrade the OS before I roll onwards.

Go to 10.4.8 and move the machine into the rack in the control room.

Suddenly, the interfaces vanish. A quick call to Motu suggests downloading the current PCI drivers. I didn’t know there were new drivers. Download new drivers. Interfaces show up. Good.

Open a session and my Spectrasonics and Oxford plugs open, and pass audio, but have no on-screen display. Just a blank window. Hmmm.

Another check in with DP where it is suggested that my video card might not be compatible with those particular plugs. Though they worked fine in the lobby before the G5 got racked.

Hair pulling ensues. Two remixes wait.

Finally, I revert to 10.4.7.

All is fine.

The entire process took me only 6 hours.

And of course the first project I opened to work on “overloaded” the processor within an hour (though Activity monitor showed no such overload). Time to reconfigure the MAS engine.

I swear the RADAR machine in the corner was snickering.

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October, 2007

Susan Levine’s Atlas is back from the plant and happily webbing at iTunes and CDBaby. The early response has been phenomenal. The band rocks, the singing and writing is unique and we think we really made something different. It’s nice to be able to listen to a record you just finished slaving over and still love it.

Patti DeRosa’s new record is also back from the plant. Secrets and Stories was produced, mixed and mastered by me. We had a great band, Lorne Entress on drums, Paul Kochanski on electric and upright bass, John Curtis on mandolin, acoustic and electric guitars, and Billy Novick on sax and clarinet. Special guests included Pablo Pickler on piano and vocals, and Tara Greenblatt and Vance Gilbert on harmonies. I played Hammond, wurlitzer, piano, percussion, a tiny bit of electric guitar and even sang a little.

I’ve been locked up working on a rather interesting project for Harvey Reid and Joyce Andersen. More to come on that.

Lots of other things going on… more updates to come.

the beginning

starting at the beginning of blogville.

thoughts and ramblings on a life spent in the recording studio.

more to come…