Happy me at the mastering studio

Jonas og Morten

Mastering Engineer Morten Bue

Ras and Jonas listening intensely... upwards

I seem to record this song whenever the family travels out of town without me.
local news predicts collapsing horizons
Done with stretched and effected Guzheng

Here's my version of a remix. I simply time-stretched an entire song that Rasmus did a while ago... but using variable time-stretching.

I turned, yet again, to the excellent Paul Stretch, which I just discovered has a drawable envelope that controls the amount of time-stretching over time. What a wonderful tool for massive sound transformation.

My reworked version, turned into a 10min piece, from which I edited together all the bits that scared the bee-jeebus out of me.
arp bad boy remix
I really don't know where all those spooky voices came from. Rasmus?

Here's an ambient, Philip Glass type experiment that I cooked up last sunday, using the 64bit version of Reaper and the 64bit version of Kontakt. The 64bit versions are a great boon for using large sample libraries.
In fact I started this experiment by sitting down and seeing how many large sample libraries I could load up.
Some samples came off the net, some are from the Native Instruments libraries, quite a few are from the excellent folks at Sonic Couture.

Then, as I am wont do, I dumped copious amounts of vst plugins onto the outputs of Kontakt.
Mostly Audio Damages plugins... but also lots of cool freeware VST plugins that I've scrounged from the net. Only the best, most stable plugins - which also have a unique sonic characteristic

One of the most useful functions in Reaper for my particular workflow is the 'Save Live Output to Disk'.
That way Reaper records everything that it spits out. Remember to uncheck the 'Save output only while playing or recording'.

This way I can start and stop playback in Reaper, yet still record the leftover maths that is in the various buffers. I really like hearing this debris of numbers that have to unfold themselves, especially since I can continue to mess with the plugins' settings and have some 'bull by the horns' kinda control over the outcome.

The result was 15 minutes of audio, which I cut down to the choicest bits and came up with 2min 44sec
doors, windows, roof and floors

So I sat down to do 'my version of a pop song', since Raz laid down the gauntlet. It went completely wrong for me.

I started by listening to radio in the car on my way home. Already here I should have seen it coming. Skip to the end.... I wound up feeling a bit nauseous, disliking the world and generally feeling a bit half-hearted/arsed.

So when I finally made it to my computer, I simply wound up doing a one take improvisation using my voice, my ukulele, and Gleetchlab 3. Which is a good thing too since it helped me feel a lot better about things.

Anyway, an incidental by product was this piece of ambient music, clocking in at a little over 15 min.
AnotherLongWaveGoodbye

Feeling particularly unoriginal tonight... so here's a cover of weatherman by nick drake.

weatherman

Started off noodling this little ditty for the littlebabyman... he either laughs or falls asleep, both of which are great

A song to those not yet here...

now-that-youre-alive

Farmer Bob - 1st and only victim of the green revolution
farmer-bob

Farmer bob is such a son of a bitch
we'd like to stick him in a fridge for the fun of it
but first we'll take him out and cut him to mince
or maybe milk him half to death, so he'll see how it is

sure it's Bob who feeds us
and puts a roof over our heads
but the pig pen is a pig sty
and the battery for the hens
is as run down as the cow shed

well we're just tired of this bullshit

and the final straw was when we saw that
he's been stealing our kids

the hens were hatching plans
and the cow were mulling them over
the pigs were at first skeptical
but then they came in closer

it started in barn
and continued in the yard
they trapped Bob in his car
but then came his friend Rover

after that Bob wasn't just mad
put the pigs in a pot
and the chickens in a vat
Daisy's fate was not much better than this
Bob put her in a cage
and hooked machines up to her tits

So that days revolution didn't quite stick
But at least the Rooster wound up as MacNuggets
that made everyone sick

One of the guys in the band wanted to do a little something special for his newborn sons name-giving. So we re-interpreted a traditional danish children's song, playing bucket-bass, ukulele and toy xylophone. With harmonies provided by my lovely girlfriend Sofia.
This is recorded in the practice room before Frej's name-giving.

atlastop-elefantensvuggevise

A song I've recorded before, but I just thought this simple version works quite well. Recorded in our tiny bathroom, sung to a lonely pine tree in tub.
ghosts-still-feel-the-sun
For the audio nerds. Signal chain- DPA-4060s to Zoom H4 set to 96khz 24bit wav. Cut in Reaper rendered with 3 Rough Rider compressors and an EQ that sliced out all freq below 100hz and ablve 7000hz. Mastered in WaveLab 6 Essential, using Crystal Resampler set at 192khz. Ah!... gratuitous processing, how amazingly unimportant