How's Your Ear? Test Your Listening Now!

CREDIT

For almost a decade now, I feared for my hearing. Having played the drums professionally a few times a week for a couple of years made me feel like I may have damaged it. All these years, I prayed (really) for God to restore my hearing like that of a child's. Why? Well, working in music professionally now doing mixing and mastering stuff really need the best my ears can give. When I go out now in clubs especially rock joints, I always have my ear plugs on or at the very least a pair of folded table napkin in my ears to protect it.

Our ears can hear a certain range of frequencies and as we know, the animals can hear more high pitched ones. As we grow old, the range of frequencies we're able to hear narrows down a bit depending on how you took care of your ears. 

Going back to my story, I never got around to having my ears checked and then I came across this site and did their test last night. I can't tell you how happy I was upon checking my hearing. The test starts from 22. I heard it starting at 18. For our everyday listening the higher ups are already high and it's really more piercing than pleasant.

Try the test out and lemme know which frequency you started hearing it?

http://www.audiocheck.net/audiotests_frequencycheckhigh.php

Cy

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My Latest EP from Danish Label Subtec

To the techno-heads :) My latest EP entitled Stronger from Subtec Records in Denmark just came out!

Check it out here and support it by buying if you dig the tunes :)

http://www.beatport.com/release/stronger/816360

God bless!

Cy

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How To Do DIY Style CD Album Packaging pt2

Here's part 2

Enjoy!

Cy

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How To Get On Beatport Without Having To Pay Anyone

Here's a short video on my story on how I got into Beatport without needing to shell out money to pay any distributor or label.

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Get Some Music Software Cheaper!

This is pretty specific but a lot of other products tie up with various brands so take this as you see fit :)

If you've bought some hardware controllers or other hardware products over the past 5 years or so, you may have noticed that it came with some freebie "lite" versions of popular software like Ableton, Cubase, etc. Some of the people I know actually have discarded these installer CDs just because they were "lite" versions or "LE" or limited edition versions... yeah sometimes it appears that it just came with your controller as a little add-on to make the purchase seem more than worth it. Truth is, it is!

For a real life example, I was one of those people who either threw out the installer or in my case, I lost the CD. I actually had to go online on forums to ask other people who may have some of their CD installers lying around because those my friends, are gold. 

Not getting into exact figures but the Lite version of Ableton Live actually gives you around $100 off your upgrade to the full version! Neat eh!? This is what I did. Once I found someone who sent me his lite installer, I was well on my way getting the full version and that's how I got my copy of Ableton. 

Right now, I actually had to dig up my old box of my NI Audio Kontrol 1 to look for my old Traktor installer because once again, it's $100 off to upgrade to the full version! 

So there! Just a little reminder to all you guys and gals out there who may have ignored their humble lite installers in favor at looking at the full versions not knowing that they actually have money in their hands for a nicer and more practical upgrade path :)

So who's going to look for their old installers after this? 

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Our Latest Project for My Band, Lovecore

Check out the link and help us in this little project of ours :)

http://artisteconnect.com/projects/lovecore-our-first-full-length-funk-rock-a...

Cy

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How To Do DIY Style CD Album Packaging pt1

Here's a short tutorial I made on DIY album packaging. This is part 1. Part 2 to follow for other ideas :)

Enjoy!

Cy

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For Sale : iControl for Garageband

iControl for Garageband for sale

 

Brand New so anything you see online would be the same :)

But for reference and to save you some googling, here's a photo.

Retails here around 10k I believe.

Selling for 5k Brand New.

Cy

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Mixing in Reason 6 Masterclass

I'm not the master don't worry :)

Here's a link to a recently shared video over at the Propellerhead forum on Mixing in Reason 6. This is a must for everyone who wants to develop their sound engineer side :)

There's a video window but scroll down a bit and you'll find a link to download so you can watch the video as much as you want offline. 

I have 7 mins left in my download as well as I type this :)

Enjoy!

http://www.musotalk.de/video/reason-6-mixing-masterclass-mit-gary-bromham-eng...

Cy

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Looking To Rhyme?

side note: It sometimes gets hard thinking of what to blog about but I always fail to remember that part of it is just simply sharing anything that may be helpful to others and so I shall from now on just post random stuff that can be of help to anyone in my field of interest :)

Jumping in...

At times, the pressure of clients breathing down your throat can be an inspiration killer and when I'm tasked to write lyrics for something, I go visit some sites when my mind draws a blank. I figured that for any songwriter out there (or even if you're a poet) this site might help you out if your juice isn't there and you need to finish something quick. 

Rhymezone and Rhymer

I use Rhymezone more coz it's easier on the eyes when searching for a word but you can try out both. 

These sites can help you look for words to complete a set of poems or lyrics for anything... Don't also just go to these sites if you feel like there's no inspiration. Sometimes finding the right words can be a jump off point for inspiration as well and you can keep searching for new words even if you feel you're on the go already.

Hope that helps :)

Cy

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