Mum told me a couple of days ago that Mia was going nuts! She’d lost her voice and was running up and down the stairs like mad. Funny thing is Pou my last flatmate said the same thing as I was returning from Japan last year. Rob my Zen business partner swears by it; that animals know when their masters return! I think it’s all true!
She’s been so crazy in love with me since I’ve been back! She was a lap cat before, but now she’s a cuddle monster!!!
We flew Cathay, on a pretty small plane with much turbulence.
Cool Chinese peeps having a smoko out on the observation deck.
5 years?!
Sydney > Hong Kong > Koh Samui. Our asses, they hurt very much.
Gearing up at Geedup Co. Star and I are in Koh Samui right now. Photoshoots imminent!
Upgrade Made!
I’ve been using Garageband, which has been great so I’ve made the jump to Logic Pro X, which looks and feels just like Garageband (and can open my Garageband files without issues), but has a lot more power.
The first song Star and I made was made with Soundtrap, and it’s currently featured! Sweet!
Beau from Geedup invited me to shoot some behind the scenes shots of Eurasian Hotties Mimi Perkins and Lea Niksic in Geedup gear this morning. Turns out the location was Wylie’s Bath’s down the road from my place, and the photographer was Brix, who I’ve been meaning to meet for some time (love his work and was super fun watching him work it!). There was quite the crew; LindaQ makeup, video guy was Adam from Redscope and Ben from Eurasian Hotties was there too.
Full set of my photos here: http://www.justinfoxphoto.com/stories/#/bts-mimiperkins-for-geedup/
Had quality hangs (and a shoot this time!) with Tonie. Such a great gal, a hippy at heart. I have a thing for hippies!
Lounge Studio.
Gearing up!
My Komplete Audio 6 interface.
KRK monitor speakers.
So this is my lounge room studio set-up! I’ve geared up pretty quick, but I think I’ve got all of the basics covered.
The first thing I bought was an audio interface to plug guitars and microphones into (it sits between the instruments and the computer, and also sends sound to my monitor speakers. Garth gave me the heads up on the Komplete Audio 6. It’s a small little metal box, with a massive metal volume knob to control volume of my monitor speakers. I’ve always wanted monitor speakers! Now I’ve got a set of KRK ROKIT 5’s and they’re awesome! I’m in love! The TRS cables I bought to connect them to the interface are too short so I’ll have to buy longer ones.
I also bought a Rode NT1-A condenser microphone, which came with a cage and pop filter. It all looks and feels a bit cheap and nasty, but the reviews out there say they function well. I figured I’d try to keep the mic on the lounge table so I bought a Rode desktop microphone stand and it blows. With the mic set-up as is it’s so front heavy it wants to topple over. I’ll have to look into buying a proper mic stand next spending spree.
I’ve bought some Samson SR850 headphones for mixing down tracks. Great reviews out there, easy on the wallet too. I’ve also got a little Belkin headphone splitter so 2 people can listen in whilst recording.
Last of all I have my Arturia MiniLab controller/keyboard. It comes with software that makes many amazing sounds, but the software isn’t compatible with Garageband, which is what I’m using now, so I’ve just been using it with Garageband’s built in instruments for now (check The Piano Song the post before!).
Track #2! Had a lot of fun with this one! I used the Arturia midi keyboard to record the emo piano bits in Ved’s cave, and finished the rest of it off at my place in Garageband. I’m hooked!
The Mighty Car Mods guys did an interview style video at a JDMST EOMM years ago and it was awesome. Ved and I have decided to do something similar at every #EOMM from now on to capture the vibes and more importantly involve the community some more. We had a go at it at last Thursday night’s EOMM and it was a lot of fun! I’m looking forward to seeing where this goes.
PS: We’re using one of my loops in the video (the one behind the interviews). Yew!