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What If You Want MORE Vuvuzela?

By Big Al on Thursday, June 24th, 2010 | 1 Comment

Can’t get enough of that angry-swarm-of-bees sound that is vuvuzela? What’s that you say? You wish you could add vuvuzela to EVERYTHING you watched? YouTube to the rescue! In honor of the World Cup’s signature sound, YouTube has added a vuvuzela button to its online videos. The circle-shaped button, which appears at the lower right [...]

fMRI Studies Show Music Is More Emotionally Stimulating When You Listen With Your Eyes Closed

By Big Al on Thursday, April 15th, 2010 | 2 Comments

This 60 Minutes segment explained how the use of the FMRI can actually “see” what people are thinking. (Note: Speed of video has been increased so that the full video could fit on YouTube.)

Bohemian Rhapsody…With A Bluegrass Spin!

By Big Al on Friday, January 15th, 2010 | 1 Comment

This is a music video from the upcoming Hayseed Dixie album, “Killer Grass,’ to be released February 2010. It’s from the included DVD included. Here’s a cool twist…the DVD also contains all of the multitrack WAV audio files for the complete album (over 2 Gigs)! It also contains a bonus song, “Love Cabin,” which must [...]

What’s Your Favorite Audio Myth?

By Big Al on Thursday, January 14th, 2010 | No Comments

Back in October one of my favorite acoustic room treatment gurus, Ethan Winer of Real Traps, conducted a workshop at the New York AES convention. The topic? Common audio myths. Today I received a note from Ethan about a video from the event. Here’s what’s in the video according to Ethan himself: For copyright and [...]

Slipperman’s 10 Commandments of Audio Engineering Beatdown

By Big Al on Thursday, January 7th, 2010 | No Comments

If you’re thinking of hiring out the services of your home studio, then this post will be a combination of humor and stark reality. This was just reposted on the Womb Forums by Otek and is a sage piece of prose by none other than industry pro and audio poet laureate of the audio engineering [...]