R.I.P. We-Verb

Aside from a few informational messages, We-Verb will be discontinuing any updates.

If you have been referred to this website by Blythe's business card, please refer to the following website:

http://positronicbliss.com

Thank you for reading, but now on to bigger and more epic journeys... life beyond the confines of college.

Latest Happenings....

February has been a busy month in many regards... the Audio Engineering Society- San Francisco chapter hosted their meeting at Cogswell on February 10th. Robert Rich spoke about mastering and the loudness wars, and its effects on current music. It sucked hearing 'Death Magnetic' for a few seconds, but it illustrated two points: 1) Don't over compress and 2) Don't listen to modern Metallica albums if you have any self respect.

Later that week I visited Robert at his home studio, and hung out with him for about an hour and a half. He explained details on his modular synth, as well as some work-flow issues he goes through when he gets a project. I can't wait to take his class next semester!

My current projects involve reigniting the Cogswell student AES chapter... but it looks like I will have to venture outside the campus in order to do so. This is where I really, really miss Foothill (that, and... my Royer R-121), students actually wanted to do things. More on that as it happens...

The Laser Harp? Le sigh. The school and its logistics have gotten in the way, so we may just purchase some SCA preamps, and build those for Cogswell Studio A... since we have such a large injection of cash from the Boeing project.

On the upside, I am definitely graduating in Spring of 2012... and I already have some ideas for my portfolio project. Go go audio restoration website!

I will be attending my first Game Developers Conference in SF on March 4. Looking forward to seeing what the rest of my school is so damn excited about...

I have also decided on my second tattoo, that will be on my right wrist:

The first Omega (the curly 'W' right after the capitalized 'F') is going to be a heart, integrating love from the frequency to the time domain. Yes, I am a nerd, and I an definitely ok with getting a tattoo of a math formula on my person.

More as it happens, midterms next week, then hopefully delving back in to some audio related projects.

New Mix...

Just a quick update, this is my current mix from the Rob Owen session, one that was released as a single and didn't make it onto the album. This is my take on the song, I am fairly proud of it, because this is the least processing I have ever used on a session (read: EQ and compression... that's it), and I recorded everything else.



Additionally, I am feeling brazen enough to share with you guys, the first thing I ever did in a DAW. I'm especially not proud that it was in Logic, but that's the way things roll. Originally, it was a remix of my teacher's (Scott Church) friends, but then I made the piece dissolve into a sound scape... which I feel truly expresses the emotions I was feeling at the time... all that time ago in 2005:

Number One.

Just a quick update... We-Verb has received its first number one acclaim. Remember the Rob Owen project? Music Connection Magazine has named it #1 album of 2010. We tracked everything except the kit.

Happy Holidays from We-Verb!

It's that time of year again...

Yes, it's the 129th annual Audio Engineering Society convention, held in San Francisco! The awesome starts Thursday, and goes through Sunday.

If you're a student, you can Google for a free exhibit pass, to go in and see all of the vendors pushing their product. And hopefully, unlike the 2008 convention, the Celemony guy won't be so sad, because 'Direct Note Access' is actually out!

Also, students, if you can spare the $30 a year membership fees, it's worth it! You get access to a lot of great information, can join the student chapter, AND the membership fees practically pay for themselves with the access to scientific papers for research projects.

You'll be getting live coverage from your favorite audio blog team [ahem], in the days to come. See you in San Francisco*!


* From the entire We-Verb staff, we formally would like to congratulate the Giants for a kick-ass-world-championship-wielding year! Also, Brian Wilson, you're my OTHER hero named Brian Wilson.

Bread Board Tube Screamer: Stage One Complete

That's right! We've been rambling about this for months, and we have finally gotten the time (and components) to commence our first bread boarding project.




And as We-Verb tradition dictates, that is a beer in the background (Lagunitas IPA for anyone interested):




And our completed breadboard! It now only awaits us making connections, and then the testing... oh the testing. More on that to come...



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In additional unrelated news, BlytheRocks had to go up to San Francisco last week for a work event held at Fort Mason, and holy crap look what I found:



Now any self respecting audio enthusiast who looks at that and doesn't think "I want to take an impulse response of that space" is probably a little unbalanced and shook seek professional help. And just when you thought it couldn't get any better...


Boo-ya! Printed PCB with components still in:



And all of this brings up a very important point: Never go anywhere without recording equipment. I may use this as an excuse to buy a Zoom H4n

We-Verb: Two years of aural bliss.

I had to get this in before August ended (Jesus, it's September already?), We-Verb is 2! Ah, the terrible two's, which can only mean that the coming year will be filled with becoming more independent and making life hell for those around us.

Ahh, but what year isn't about that?

Our Boeing project is currently in the mixing stage, and will be posted as soon as it has been finalized and bounced from surround to stereo. Our audio program at school has literally doubled, so also look forward to some tutorials and forthcoming projects.

The recent influx of Pro Tools HD gear, and the Mbox 3 has been triggering talks of "What the hell is Avid up to?" on Gearslutz. Warning: Do not read if you are still working through ADC (automatic delay compensation) trauma with your therapist.

And finally, the Audio Engineering Society will be holding its convention this November in San Francisco, and you will be getting live coverage from your favorite audio blog (ahem).

So thank you for your support of two years, and you can look forward to another year of audio kick-assery*!!

*That's right, we write about audio AND make new nouns.