Author Archives: Bryan Cord

Cyanide Valentine discover Pipeline engineers’ dark secret

Posted on September 16, 2005 by Bryan Cord

Scroll to the 9/13 blog entry If Nick and I are robots, we have to be the two laziest ones ever built.

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Hooray for vacuum tubes! (PreSonus Bluetube DP impressions)

Posted on August 31, 2005 by Bryan Cord

We’ve had the Bluetube DP stereo mic preamp around for a few weeks now, and I’ve had a chance to use it in several different recording situations. It’s a pretty sweet-looking (the visible tube glow is cheesy but cool) little … Continue reading →

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I Have Insomnia (book-learnin’ inside)

Posted on July 28, 2005 by Bryan Cord

I haven’t been able to sleep for the last two days, so I decided to make myself useful and write up an in-depth breakdown of the automatic pop filter circuit I posted the link to previously. It’s a little bit … Continue reading →

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Realtime Analyzer software (the free kind)

Posted on July 20, 2005 by Bryan Cord

We should download this and try using it to get a more quantitative feel for the sound of all the different monitors we’re testing. Looks pretty comprehensive and it’s only $25 to register if we like it. Are there any … Continue reading →

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Bag End – Take 2

Posted on July 20, 2005 by Bryan Cord

Just had my first real stab at mixing on the Bag End system last night (Shore Leave on Pipeline). My impressions aren’t really too much different from Ramsey’s, but I’ll reiterate them for posterity here: – Mains are unbelievably clear … Continue reading →

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Fun with circuits (audio geekery within)

Posted on July 14, 2005 by Bryan Cord

I was looking around online today trying to figure out how to design an arbitrary analog phase-shift circuit that’s constant for all audio frequencies. That didn’t go very well (short answer: it’s pretty goddamned complicated), but I did run across … Continue reading →

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DynAudio monitors – first impressions

Posted on May 25, 2005 by Bryan Cord

So after doing two mixes (Les Breastfeeders and the Charms) on the DynAudio monitors Andy brought by last week, I’ve got some early comments (in bullet form because I’m too lazy for complete sentences today): – Having a subwoofer in … Continue reading →

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Beat Circus and the Samsons

Posted on May 11, 2005 by Bryan Cord

So I’m sitting here listening to the recording of the Beat Circus set from last night and trying to correlate it with what was coming out of the monitors last night. No really earth-shattering revelations (mids/highs very bright and clear, … Continue reading →

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Samson Rubicon 6a – first impressions

Posted on April 20, 2005 by Bryan Cord

So Nick and I hooked up the new monitors tonight. I engineered the evening’s band (whose name I can’t remember) on them and also subjected them to all of Mclusky’s excellent third album as a point of reference. Some things … Continue reading →

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Winter Pills

Posted on April 12, 2005 by Bryan Cord

Note to future-Bryan: do NOT use hypercardioid mics on acoustic guitars in a full-band setting! Second note to future-Bryan: That Sennheiser MD421 with the tone you’re so fond of is in fact hypercardioid, and not just cardioid as you’d previously … Continue reading →

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