The new Young Widows and Grails records, both out later this year on Temporary Residence, will definitely be worth hearing.

I love Nuendo, which is currently very expensive. It used to be significantly different (better) than Cubase, but that's no longer the case. If you get Cubase, you've basically got the same DAW as Nuendo, from a track/mix perspective. I think the current Steinberg DAW model is the best I've seen, an...

I highly recommend contacting Adam Selzer at Type Foundry: m The things I hear coming out of there lately (and I've been lucky to hear a lot) are sounding really fantastic. The client list on their site is a who's-who of the Portland music scene. Past clients include M Ward, Grails, Decemberists, 31...

If your friend has a copy of Cool Edit or Adobe Audition, he should be able to read these files with either of those apps. You only need to know the sample rate and bit depth of the files, and then you can force the app to read the raw PCM data, with Motorola/big-endian byte order specified if they ...

Wiggins! Yo. When Neutrino recorded with Steve, we had a section of one track that we wanted to sound this way. We bussed the entire mix to a cassette deck with the input gain cranked. Most professional decks are designed to *not* distort, but it's pretty easy to get a cassette deck (even a pro one)...

If the compression a mixer is using makes the mix work and the mix doesn't work without it, I don't generally advise them to bypass it. I only ever advise against dynamics processing that is in place simply to achieve more output level. There are times when the compression artifacts in the mixes I r...

Probably the Crane Song STC-8, tho I think it's best suited for my rather specific task (mastering). That said, I am having trouble imagine getting by without my other two as options (API 2500 and Requisite L2M mk. III).

I used to go see his old band (forgot the name right now, but it was with Carl Saff on guitar) all the time. We (Brian, Dave Bychowski and I) was Neutrino. Thanks for going to our shows. Brian is one of my favorite drummers, for obvious reasons. A blast to play guitar with. Mac McNeilly is way up t...

I was thinking the whole time "what kind of scene are they going to devise that will sum up this show perfectly?" I couldn't think of a single way they could pull it off, but I feel that they managed to do it better than I expected. Seems more brilliant every time I play it back in my head...