The 8-track lives!

01/01/2009

PortastudioBehold! The first test tune recorded on the new Portastudio 8-track: 8 Track Test

It was recorded and mixed a couple days ago -- three tracks of guitar, some panned left and some panned right.  I added a fade to the end of it after it was mastered on the device, but that's it -- the rest results from the basic settings, and the guitar is recorded through the pickup, directly into the Portastudio.

The next experiment will be to record a bunch of tracks on the 8track, export them individually as wavs, and them get them post-produced on the computer using my original recording software.

The best thing about the 8-track?  No noisy fans!

Update - 3:30 PM

I love this thing - three more takes, through the mics: NY Day

Posted by Phil Pelanne on 01/01/2009 at precisely 12:45:00 | See Full Story

This is the movie that lauched a thousand stickers around my campus back in 1991.  It's an entrancing movie about nothing, where each scene melts into the next. 

I watched this movie way too many times back in college...

Posted by Phil Pelanne on 12/28/2008 at precisely 21:45:00 | See Full Story

Got Vertigo?

12/27/2008

This video is absolutely ridiculous.  The trail gets worse and worse as it continues. 

I can't imagine the amount of cash that it would take to convince me to walk this trail, but it would exceed the government bailout fund, guaranteed.

Posted by Phil Pelanne on 12/27/2008 at precisely 11:13:00 | See Full Story

This is exactly the way all Creed songs sounded to me back when they were making music. The best part of this particular video is when they bring it home near the end of this video.

Posted by Phil Pelanne on 12/26/2008 at precisely 11:09:00 | See Full Story

Merry Christmas!

12/25/2008

Snowman Death Another Christmas has come and gone in Blacksburg, and we here at pelanne.com are fuller for it.  Seriously, that was a whole lot of lamb.

Hope you had a great one, got to hang out with loved ones, and found the time to put your hands in the air in such a manner as to give the impression that you just don't care.  That's very important...

Posted by Phil Pelanne on 12/25/2008 at precisely 16:55:00 | See Full Story