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maashu

producer.

About Me

producer. dj. screenwriter. travelled. no ink.if you have over 1000 friends, you must be a robot. leave me the fuck alone.

My Interests

Reason. Nuendo. Ableton.Live. Remixing. Spinning. Rickenbackers. Rollerblading. Running.

I'd like to meet:

ambitious. genuine. unique. interesting.

Music:

house. my bloody valentine. progressive house. bjork. pappa. sasha. digweed. matador records. radiohead. electroboobies. the high violets. the cure. the smiths. depeche mode. catherine wheel (early stuff). ambient groove. kruder & dorfmeister. fila brazillia. !K7. Ninja Tune. Brian Eno. Placebo. Pixies. Spacemen 3. Verve (pre-urban hymns). arab strap. cat power. cornelius. the gotan project. sonic youth. all natural lemon and lime flavors. swervedriver. slint. tortoise. mogwai. muse. the octopus project. mono. pelican. the juan maclean.

Movies:

slacker. heathers. spun. bowling for columbine. a christmas story.

Television:

simpsons. kids in the hall.

Books:

catcher in the rye.

Heroes:

Frank Zappa.

My Blog

The Echo Layla "Auto Mute Digital Inputs" option

So the studio has changed configurations yet again, due to the addition of Native Instruments' EXCELLENT Kore device.  I've only just started playing with it, but man, it's a LOT of fun to be abl...
Posted by maashu on Mon, 22 May 2006 08:55:00 PST

Too Little, Too Late

So that's the title of the EP I'm finishing now.  This past Friday, I sat down with Reason 3 and just banged out layer after layer, lyric after lyric for the first song, A Thousand Days of Rain.&...
Posted by maashu on Mon, 17 Apr 2006 11:10:00 PST

nuendo 2 and the midi editor

So last night i had the Con-Airs in the studio again, mixing down a cover of Lucinda Williams' Fruits of My Labor.  Con-Airs did some amazing guitar work on this one, so good that there was littl...
Posted by maashu on Mon, 13 Mar 2006 06:17:00 PST

signal chain

here we go again.another year, another studio configuration.  you'd think i'd just pick somewhere to put the stuff, set it up and be done with it, wouldn't ya?  it's a good thing this year t...
Posted by maashu on Thu, 29 Dec 2005 09:43:00 PST

oh, that new B4 [2]

I recently got the update for Native Instruments' B4 Organ.  The original sounds fantastic, especially if you've just seen Medeski, Martin and Wood and want to try to play some sounds like the fo...
Posted by maashu on Thu, 01 Dec 2005 11:54:00 PST

[re]discovering sound

I don't feel like a sellout for ordering the Absynth 3 Tutorial DVD.  I don't.  And I'll tell you why in one brief, profane sentence. Absynth is about as fucking user-friendly as a lesbian ...
Posted by maashu on Tue, 18 Oct 2005 12:08:00 PST

They call me the walrus

"Poke out your eyesAnd move to PortlandKill your wifeAnd move to PortlandBurn down your homeAnd move to PortlandCome on everybody!We're movin' to Portland" -dead milkmen the walls seem to be closing i...
Posted by maashu on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

How to make Nuendo 2 stop acting like an idiot

I'm not sure how much of this was my lack of familiarity with the program, MIDI, or what, but it sure as hell took up a lot of my Sunday afternoon. After picking up the new ones from Low, M83, Mede...
Posted by maashu on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

unchained / rechained

my assistant at my DayJob(TM) told me the other day that working with DAWs sounded a lot like trying to configure Linux. Not knowing much about that, I really wouldn't know. However, I did get the i...
Posted by maashu on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

FM

it ain't just for the radio anymore. reading up on frequency modulation on the Native Instruments Web site. This is a quote from their tutorial on Absynth: In FM synthesis, its the carrier tha...
Posted by maashu on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST