miscellany 
July 27, 2011
My latest CD of songs is complete! With this CD I made a
definite move into digital production. About 40% the songs were
recorded and mixed in analog, and about 40% were recorded and
mixed digitally; the rest utilized both techniques in one way or
another. That is, I sometimes took a song originally recorded on
analog eight-track tape and brought the separate tracks into
Digital Performer for digital mixing and processing. It’s nice to
be able to say that the sound turned out wonderfully either way.
Of course, in one sense, mixing digitally is not faster than analog: there
is a nearly unlimited
number of adjustments possible, and they can be made so precisely
and repeatably that I can easily find myself tweaking individual notes for hours on end.
More soundfiles will be coming as well.... stay tuned.
—O.P.
P.S.:
Where does the name “Messier 81” come from, you ask? I’m glad
you
asked. Messier 81 is one of the names astronomers give to the
galaxy
in the picture. The name derives from a French
astronomer named Charles Messier, who cataloged a number of such
objects
in the 18th century. There's a great page about him HERE.
In fact, there is another fine site where you can see ALL of
Messier’s
objects, from M1 to M101! Click HERE
to see it.
The image of the galaxy is one of the classic images produced in
the
1940s and 1950s by Mount Wilson and Palomar Observatories.
Thanks for taking a look at my site!
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