Fish(er) Tales

If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! These posts will give you a better idea about what this site is about. Start here, then go here, and here, and then here.Hey, I’ve written a bunch of tutorials on my three favorite apps: Sony Vegas, Sound Forge, and Acid. Here’s a list of them all along with a couple of other related articles. Efficient...

Want to be a success? Of course you do. So, either get the resources you need from here. Done. Originally posted 2009-12-22 02:31:46.

This is a guest post from Seattle composer Jeff Tolbert and his fine, new film scoring blog (check it out!) Compressors can be confusing little buggers. When I was a recording novice, I was often baffled by them and was never really sure if they were doing anything. Even now, with more experienced ears, it’s still sometimes hard to tell exactly whether a compressor is adding anything useful to...

Hey! I’ve written a bunch of free tutorials on using Sony Vegas, Sound Forge, and Acid. Click to read ‘em! Editing Music with Sony Sound Forge Using iZotope RX for reducing noise and more Audio For Video: The Audio Post Workflow Reflections in Sony Vegas — make your titles and logos shine! Slow, fast, reverse, and freeze motion in Sony Vegas Efficient Editing with Sony Vegas Anatomy...

This past summer I ended up with jury duty. I didn’t serve on a trial, but I did have to report for several days. The only positive outcome of the experience was that it gave me time to think. Since prospective jurors can’t use electronics – no camera phones, no laptops, etc, I brought along a book and a spiral notebook that I bought at a back-to-school sale. (Can you tell me why...

Here is a terrific TED talk on the “Barefoot Movement”. It specifically talks about Barefoot College which, according to their Website: “provides basic services and solutions to problems in rural communities, with the objective of making them self-sufficient and sustainable. These ‘Barefoot solutions’ can be broadly categorised into solar energy, water, education, health care,...

Sir Ken Robinson teams up with the clever folks at RSA Animate to discuss  Changing Education Paradigms. This has important insight into a subject we should all be concerned about. His take on the way we currently teach and how we should teach are worth studying. This excerpt (so cleverly done) is part of a longer speech that you can watch, too.  

The best way to make sure you get the most from your talent is to use it. So, write a piece of music every day. This doesn’t need to be extravagant or even complete, rather just put your first thoughts down on paper, HDD, disc, etc. Make composing part of your daily routine. Not everything you do will be “good”, but the exercise will yield some bits and pieces that you can later turn...