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...

Dear Santa, It’s been a while since I last dropped you a letter. I recall the last time being when I was around nine years old. Let me just say thank you for the spaceship model and Battleground game — just what I wanted. Anyway, I’ve been a good boy this year (so my Mon tells me) and thought I’d let you know about a few things that I wish would happen this holiday. Here they...

Andrew Lauzon inquired recently with this: “I recently received a message from a Non-Exclusive library I belong to, informing me that they will be switching over to Exclusive licenses as of the new year. I’d be interested to hear your thoughts on the Exclusive vs. Non-Exclusive debate.” He went on to say: “On one hand, I understand the reasoning and how an exclusively represented...

Senator Bernie Sanders in his history-making filibuster (or #filibernie on Twitter) presented a huge amount of information along with his impassioned, emotional pleas for helping middle class and working Americans. Where did all of this data come from? Read these books: Rebooting the American Dream: 11 Ways to Rebuild Our Country by Thom Hartmann (For a short time, you can read this one for free). Griftopia:...

Ducking is the funny little word we use in audio production when we want to lower the volume of one sound so another sound can better be heard. Typically this means ducking the music under a voice over. It could also mean ducking a bass guitar so that the thump of a kick drum comes through, too. Ducking is a useful tool that can really make your mixes more dynamic. For instance, using the aforementioned...

I’m concerned about the general direction I see the Web heading. It’s consolidating in ways that I feel are cause for concern. Or if not concern, at least a little careful attention. Soon Comcast will probably own NBC and become a huge media conglomerate that will not only control content but also how that content gets delivered. That’s a dangerous precedent that threatens “Net...

We all have to pay taxes. But we are only required to pay our fair share. Make sure you are not throwing money out the window. Follow these simple end-of-year tips.   It all comes down to income and expenses – the money you make with your business and the money you spend on the business. The more you make, the more you pay in taxes. Simple, right? Even the most convoluted of IRS instructions...

I once  talked with an older adult student who told me that she had “the knowledge as big as a football field, but only a quarter-inch thick.” I pressed her to elaborate and she replied that she loved to learn new things (which is what brought her to my audio class) and to expand her understanding of all that she was interested in discovering. Unfortunately, she didn’t have the patience...