Author Archives: Ian C. Anderson

Mixing “Monday Night Mistake” pt. 1 – Drum Sounds

I agreed to mix a rock song for my buddy Frank Tierney.  Tonight is the first night I’ve worked on it.  Right now I’m plugging the drum part into my Steven Slate Drums sample library to find the right drum kit for the feel of the song. impossible_absolute_rock impossible_all_american impossible_big_fatty impossible_chunky_rock impossible_cla_hybrid impossible_crisp_rock impossible_deep_rock impossible_fat_radio_rock impossible_modern_rock impossible_slates_hybrid I really like the Absolute Rock, Big Fatty, Chunky [...]
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Looping session turned remix?

Sooo I was in the process of figuring out how to live-loop the bits and pieces of Lunar Sunrise within Ableton Live tonight. I was too lazy to plug my bass and guitar in, so I pulled up some virtual instruments in Ableton and jammed out with them. Next thing I knew, I [...]
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Email Marketing with Mail Chimp

Mail Chimp is an online tool for email marketing and email list management. I recently created an account in order to manage email list for my “fans.” Why? Because many of my fans won’t actively read my blog or visit my website without a little nudge. But they all check their email. Sending [...]
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Pledge to me, I’ll pledge to Haiti

I’ve decided to pledge to the Haiti cause, specifically to the Doctors Without Borders cause. As many of you know, I’m currently accepting pledges, via kickstarter.com, to help with the costs of producing my first album. The amount that I’ll pledge to Doctors Without Borders will be 75% of the kickstarter pledges that I get over the [...]
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Day 0 of #ica2010album : Drum Sounds

Today (technically yesterday now..) I started the process of salvaging my (rather poorly) recorded drums from a few years ago into separate MIDI tracks. Reaper makes this process easier with a JS plugin called drumtrigger – it takes an audio signal as an input (such as a snare drum track), and outputs a MIDI [...]
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  • <a href="http://music.iancanderson.com/album/perennials">Lunar Sunrise pt. 1 by Ian C. Anderson</a>