Archive for August, 2006
Bob Dylan’s a Bloody Hypocrite
Bob Dylan wrote some amazing songs back in his day (which was around the time I was in diapers), but looks like he’s now at the point at which he’ll criticize the music biz with one side of his mouth while sucking up cash for endorsements with the other.
Quoting from this article : “Bob Dylan [...]
Posted: August 29th, 2006 under Uncategorized.
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Apple Not Particularly Green
Macrumours.com notes that Apple doesn’t score particularly well in environmental awareness. Quoting from their site:
Late last week, environmental watchdog Greenpeace released their Guide to Greener Electronics (pdf) which rates how eco-friendly different tech companies are based on publicly available information. Apple scored 4th lowest, beating only Leveno, Motorola, and Acer. Among the top-scorers were Nokia [...]
Posted: August 29th, 2006 under Uncategorized.
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DIY PC Boards
I’ve made a couple of PC boards in recent months, and thought I’d mention here the resources I’m using. For schematic capture and PCB layout and artwork generation, I’m using a newish program called DipTrace. After looking at as many PCB design programs as I could find on the web, I arrived at two conclusion: [...]
Posted: August 28th, 2006 under Studio Nebula.
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More Audio Damage Coverage in Computer Music Magazine
Yes, it’s been a busy week for AD. Response to Reverence has been amazing, for which we are extremely grateful. Yesterday the new issue of Computer Music arrived in my mailbox, and besides sporting Chris’s lovely half-page ad for Reverence, we were surprised and very pleased to discover it contained a nice review of Discord [...]
Posted: August 24th, 2006 under Audio Damage.
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Reverence: It’s a Hit
Our new reverb plug-in Reverence is enjoying a very warm welcome in the marketplace. It’s selling like crazy–it’s broken all of our first-days-of-sales records by a factor of two or more–and the buyers love it. There’s a nice review here at the Create Digital Music website.
Posted: August 23rd, 2006 under Audio Damage.
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Audio Damage Releases Reverence Reverb
I’m pleased to announce a new Audio Damage product, available today. It’s called Reverence; it’s a reverberation plug-in which recreates the effects typical of 1980s-vintage digital emulations of plate reverbs. (Yes, that makes it a software version of an electronic imitation of an electro-mechanical simulation of acoustic reverberation.) It has both their lush sound and [...]
Posted: August 21st, 2006 under Audio Damage.
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“Rustic”?
This article in today’s New York Times about the new self-created suspect in JonBenet Ramsey’s killing describes Boulder as a “rustic college town.” Okay, there’s a big university here, and yes, the city is about 125,000 people which makes it a town in the eyes of a big city, but rustic? I don’t get that, [...]
Posted: August 19th, 2006 under Uncategorized.
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Audio Damage in Electronic Musician Magazine
Audio Damage products are the topic of this month’s “Download of the Month” column in the September issue of Electronic Musician. The author mostly talks about Discord but mentions several of our other products also. I kind of wish he hadn’t described DubStation as “a very basic feedback-delay [sic] line” since that’s sort of like [...]
Posted: August 16th, 2006 under Audio Damage.
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The Future of Air Travel Security
Just in case you’re curious about what’s going to happen down the road with airline security, in the wake of the recently foiled liquid-bomb plot, there’s an article by a Time correspondent here that pretty much paints the picture. It’s about airport security in Israel, a country that has forgotten far more about conflict and [...]
Posted: August 11th, 2006 under Uncategorized.
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Pug Party
Our neighbor Lisa has two pugs. I’m not much of a dog person but I have to admit that pugs are kind of charming. They’re compact, good-natured, and so goofy-looking that it’s hard not to like them.
A couple of days ago, in a moment of weakness and insanity, Lisa agreed to board two other pugs–pugs [...]
Posted: August 10th, 2006 under Uncategorized.
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