In the world of sounds

Every single day I seem to learn something new about Logic. I enjoy reading about how others work within Logic to get tips and to learn new things. One of my favorites are the SFLogicNinjas video tutorials. Check them out here. I've learned quite a bit from this guy, and still do follow his video updates.

In his latest video he mention a musician called 'Moldover' which was recommended to him by the great keyboard genius Jordan Rudess of Dream Theater. So I had to check him out and I must say that I got a lot of inspiration watching this guy. Even though I'm not into the exact same music. He seems to play around with funky sounds (sampling his on stomach when eating different types of food) and other wierd stuff, really cool.

Check out his 'album preview' clip on the tube:

Watershed and Free Effects

To begin with I would like to recommend a couple of free effects that I've found useful (havent tried them all yet).

Bismark have made a couple of free plugins for mac (Spectrum analyzer, sampler):
Bismark

Stillwell have a lot of 'free' (if you could stand some 'bad karma') plug-ins as well (EQ, Limiter, Compressor, ...):

Stillwell

At last I would like to recommend two plugins from Audio Damage (a vintage compressor and fuzz distortion):

Audio Damage

Hope you dig it. I sure do!

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The last few days I've listening a lot to Opeth and their new album 'Watershed'. It's so amazing and the music sounds fresh. Actually I haven't really been a Opeth fan for a long time. Always liked their music though. But now I've been backtracking all the Opeth albums that I've missed during the years and I'm stunned by all the great music these swedes write.

Here's the opening track from their latest album 'watershed' called 'Coil' preformed on swedish breakfast tv:

The Crown and the Ring

When I was a little boy, the group Manowar ment a lot to me. They sung about vikings and greek mythology and all that cool stuff. Catchy melodic metal hymns that I just adored. Manowar - Kings of metal, like they call themselves.. and I must surely agree.

I remember seeing them live during 2000 in Stockholm, just an amazing show. 

These bands you grow up with will always be something special to you, Manowar will always be special to me. One of those bands. Anyways.. They seem to have released a new double DVD now, and it looks absolutely amazing. I'll have to buy it! Watched this clip today on the tube (one of my all time favourite Manowar tracks from that DVD):

 

Finals and Book

Valentines day and I had my first final today in the basic sounddesign course. I hope it went well, it was a bit strange at some parts/questions, but it felt alright. 

Also finished a book I've been reading: 

<-- that one :D

It was an alright book to read. Altough I believe that the content of the book was written in a too high level for me, not that much details. More concepts about mixing really. But that's cool too. I would recommend this book to people that have been mixing songs for a while and maybe are a bit stuck in their way of thinking. It's not the book that will explain all the studio gear in-depth. But it was easy to read and follow non-the-less. 

Lucy in the sky with diamond..s

...and I'm not actually talking about The Beatles. I'm hooked on the Dream Theater song 'Octavarium' where they give a reference to this John Lennon song. Lyrics on that given section (my favourite part): 

Sailing on the seven seize the day tripper diem's ready
jack the ripper owens wilson phillips and my supper's ready
lucy in the sky with diamond dave's not here I come to save the
day for nightmare cinema show me the way to get back home again

Someone asked me what albums I liked during 2008. Here's a small list of some of my favourites from 2008 (in no particular order):

1. It Bites - The Tall Ships 
2. Juno Reactor - Gods and Monsters
3. Seventh Wonder - Mercy Falls
4. Protest the Hero - Fortress
5. Meshuggah - ObZen
6. Frost* - Experiments in Mass Appeal
7. The Arcane Order - In the Wake of Collisions
8. Cynic - Traced in Air
9. Amon Amarth - Twilight of the Thunder Gods
10. Karmakanic - Who's the Boss in the Factory
11. Opeth - Watershed

Lindbergmusic.se online again

Since I think Aftonbladet.se will miss out on this BIG news I had to write it here. For the sake of humanity.. or.. well.. grumble. 

At least I have a page again and I believe that I will have an easier time maintaining this setup.

Here it is in all its glory: Lindbergmusic.se 

Howdy! 

Soon

Worked on the homepage today, changed everything from my original approach. Well.. it was just too much left on that design and I didn't know how to get there, felt cornered. 

But NOW its soon done. Really! :) At least good enough for putting it online. You could always fix stuff later, right?

You can see the banner at the top of this blog anyways, what a cutie... 

Enough of nonsense for a saturday I'd say! 

 

Point Zero Rehearsing - ROCK!

We're back! After about eight years we're back again. The original line-up is intact, point zero 2009 consists  of the following rockers: 

Johan - Vocals and Guitars

Mackan - Bass 

Walle - Drums 

Freddy - Guitars, backing vocals and keys 

We're rehearsing every tuesday now, and I tell you - the boys are hotter than ever :) 

Our myspace is all set up with some of our older recordings. Updates will come as the rockparade move along. Check it!  

Let the rock begin! /Freddy