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Like father, like son…

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AutoTune in Popular Culture

AutoTune has officially been committed to the lexicon of the masses.

Evidence:

Evidence:

But somehow T-Pain himself still thinks AutoTune is the same as a Vocoder:

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Friends From School @ Backstage Lounge

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Estelle’s “American Boy” mastering is shit

Listen to this…

This is an incredibly catchy song, but how did it make it to market with such poor audio quality? It distorts throughout, but not in the warm way… more in the no-regard-for-digital-full-scale way.

I decided to investigate in Pro Tools…

Yeah. Except for the intro, the whole thing is pegged. This is what the channel strip looked like most of the time…

Now I understand that this is sort of typical of the music of our day. There is the so-called loudness war and every mastering engineer wants their track to have the highest possible RMS so that it sounds really loud. It’s a tragedy of the commons.

But this isn’t even the same thing—it’s way worse. This song isn’t just compressed and limited, it’s actually clipping. A lot.

Here’s a zoomed in portion of the song at 2:51 (2:27 in the video version above) where it kind of breaks down and Kanye does his thing. Totally clipped.

Seriously. wtf.

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Piper Davis @ The Biltmore

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We played The Biltmore on Monday. Everybody likes a good review…

1. Local Exposure: He who pays the Piper calls the tune

2. Piper… At the Gates of Dawn: Piper Davis at the Biltmore

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Collarbone Bass Tab

Collarbone by Fujiya & Miyagi

Intro & Verses

   1   2   3   4   1   2   3   4   1   2   3   4   1   2   3   4
G |----------------------------------------------------------------|
D |--------------1-------------------------------1-----------------|
A |3-3-------3-------------1-1--1--3-3-------3------------1--1--1--|
E |----------------------------------------------------------------|
   1   2   3   4   1   2   3   4   1   2   3   4   1   2   3   4
G |----------------------------------------------------------------|
D |--------------------------------1-1-------1---3--------11---1---|
A |3-3-------3---1--------11-1--1----------------------------------|
E |----------------------------------------------------------------|

Chorus

   1   2   3   4   1   2   3   4   1   2   3   4   1   2   3   4
G |----------------------------------------------------------------|
D |------------0-1---1-1-1-1-1-2-3---3-3-3-3-3---------------------|
A |3-3-3-3-3-3---------------------------------5-6---6-6-6-6\1-1-2-|
E |----------------------------------------------------------------|
   1   2   3   4   1   2   3   4   1   2   3   4   1   2   3   4
G |----------------------------------------------------------------|
D |------------0-1---1-1-1-1-1-2-3---3-3-3-3-3---------------------|
A |3-3-3-3-3-3---------------------------------5-6---6-6-6-6\1-1-2-|
E |----------------------------------------------------------------|

Later in the bridge, the rhythm simplifies like this…

   1   2   3   4   1   2   3   4   1   2   3   4   1   2   3   4
G |----------------------------------------------------------------|
D |--------------0-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-2-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-------------------|
A |3-3-3-3-3-3-3---------------------------------6-6-6-6-6-6\1-1-1-|
E |----------------------------------------------------------------|
   1   2   3   4   1   2   3   4   1   2   3   4   1   2   3   4
G |----------------------------------------------------------------|
D |--------------0-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-2-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-------------------|
A |3-3-3-3-3-3-3---------------------------------6-6-6-6-6-6\1-1-1-|
E |----------------------------------------------------------------|

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Piper Davis @ The Commodore

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Pemberton Festival 2008

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Piper Davis @ The Commodore

After The Kitchen split, I started drumming for Piper Davis. Here’s a clip from our second show together…

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Awakening

I composed this musique concrète piece last year for Barry Truax’s Electroacoustic Music 347 course at SFU. I entered it in the JTTP competition for young Canadian composers (but didn’t win anything).

Wear headphones for maximum experience.

http://cec.concordia.ca/jttp/2007/index.html

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