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Pro Tools 12 update

 WOW, with all the new features that AVID has put into its update of Pro-Tools I cant help but wonder if eventually the features will over shadow the recording process. Will we trade bit-depth for some new form of automation. Maybe Sample rate for new fancy tricks and gadgetry. What's your take? Let me know in the comments section.

Gunning for South Texas!!!!

What"s happening everyone? I hope all is well. Know that my family and I are finally relocated and settled (or almost settled) in Corpus Christi TX., I felt that it would be a good time to get this blog started again. I'd like to continue with the original concept of all things audio.

W.L.R.C Founding

  Hello everyone, Mr. Rude is back with an incredible track. This post is the beginning of a new chapter in The Life and Times of Mr. Rude. For those who follow this Blog, Apologies for not posting in a while but I'm back to stay. Since the last time I posted I have graduated school with a Bachelors Degree in Audio Production, I have been to Texas and back, and (most exciting of all) I have opened the doors to my own recording facility around where my family and I are currently residing. Needless to say, its been a busy summer and fall. The name of our company is White Lion Recording Company, LLC. We took the name from combing the names of our two youngest children Bianca and Leo. Bianca meaning-WHITE, and Leo meaning- LION. I'm proud to say that I have my own place but I'll be even more proud when I begin to have clients on a regular basis. I will be posting every week with updates on the studio and different content that I may find interesting. Please continue to follow and comment on my posts. If you can, please like our face book White Lion Recording Company, LLC and stay tuned. Thanks!

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Hey everyone, Mr. Rude here. Due to the subject of my last post I thought it would be fitting to post a couple of songs (that most of us know)from Metallica that is a prime example of what too loud can do to your mix. The Album Death Magnetic is the bands latest album which was produced by Rick Rubin. If you compare this album to the Black album which was produced by Bob Rock you can clearly hear the difference between the 2. I have included songs from Death Magnetic and the Black album to let you be the judge of which sounds better. The beauty of audio is that it's subjective. Listen, make your choice, and send me some feedback about what you think. It would be intersting to find out what other people think, since we all hear things differently. Thanks again to everybody for you comments. PEACE!
                                                             -MR. RUDE-

The Loudness War

Hello everyone, welcome back to The Life and Times of Mr. Rude. To day I want talk about audio compression and what some in the audio industry are calling "The Loudness War". Today compression of an audio signal is now the norm for almost every track in a recording/mixing session.  The novice and beginner are under the assumption that their tracks must be as loud as possible but what they fail to realize is that louder does not always equal better. They do not understand that when you compress a track your messing with that single track (or the mixed 2 tracks) dynamic range. The dynamic range of an instrument is what gives the instrument its sonic and tonal characteristic. When you mess with that via compression/limiting you are essentially taking away the instrument is supposed to sound like naturally. As recording/mixing/mastering engineer it is out goal to capture the natural tone and sonic characteristic of any thing we record whether it be a guitar, bass, or vocal. Although compression is an essential tool for us it is imperative that we don't over do it. Don't fall into the trap of over compression it will just make your tracks sound amateur and to "Loud". I have included a short video that will let you hear what I'm talking about. Thanks again to everyone that views my blog and thanks to all those that post comments, I appreciate it! Until next time, PEACE.

                                   - MR. RUDE-

How music and sound affects the brain Part II

Hello again everyone, Mr. Rude is back with part 2 of "How music and sound affects the brain". I hope that you found the first part informative. If you didn't then maybe this isn't the blog for you. Anyway, part 2 of this post is a continuence of an article that I found by Ben Geenfield that continues to explain about the chemicals in the brain that are affected by sound and different music for that matter on a daily basis. If you found the first part educational, then this part will also hit home pretty well. I want to remind all the viewers of this blog that this blog is for persons with interests in all things audio. If there is at anytimt you don't understand somthing that I post please feel free ask questions. That's what the comments section is for. I will always be glad to answer your questions with as much detail as possible and if there is something that I don't know I'll be glad to do the research for you and get the correct answer to you as soon as I can. Thanks again to all that view and comment on my blog. I really appreciate it. Thanks Again! PEACE

                                                             -MR. RUDE-


Article Starts Here:

Most of us live the majority of our lives in a state of primarily beta brain waves – aroused, alert, concentrated, but also somewhat stressed.
When we lower the brain wave frequency to alpha, we can put ourselves in an ideal condition to learn new information, perform more elaborate tasks, learn languages, analyze complex situations and even be in what sports psychologists call “The Zone”, which is a state of improved focus and performance in athletic competitions or exercise. Part of this is because being the slightly decreased electrical activity in the brain can lead to significant increases in feel-good brain chemicals like endorphins, noroepinephrine and dopamine.
So, for example, when you meditate, you are focusing on something, whether it’s a candle flame or your breath going in or out, or a mantra or a prayer. When you focus like that, the electrical patterns in your brain slow down and relax, and the amplitude of your brain-waves generally stabilizes in the alpha wave range.
But it turns out that you don’t need to be a trained monk or meditate for weeks on end to be able to achieve this state of alpha brain wave relaxation.
Instead, you can use a concept called “brainwave entrainment” to get the same effect.
Brainwave entrainment is any method that causes your brainwave frequencies to fall into step with a specific frequency. It’s based on the concept that the human brain has a tendency to change its dominant EEG frequency towards the frequency of a dominant external stimulus (such as music, or sound).
The type of sound frequencies that are typically used in brainwave entrainment are called “binaural” beats. The way that these work is that two tones close in frequency generate a beat frequency at the difference of the frequencies.
I know this sounds complicated, but it’s pretty simple to understand when you think about it. For example, a 495 Hz audio tone and 505 Hz audio tone (whether overlaid in music or in a sound frequency) will produce a 10 Hz beat, roughly in the middle of the alpha brain wave range, like this:


OK, so now we get to the cool, practical application of using sound and music to enhance your brain and change your brain wave frequences.
I hunted down an expert, Dr. Jeffrey Thompson, from NeuroAcoustic.com, which produces and educates on using sound for stress reduction, relaxation, sleep enhancement, mega-learning, creativity, peak performance, meditation and higher states of consciousness.