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TGP – Ronald and my Metallica story

DISCLAIMER: This Gratefulness Project of mine will come in random posts and in no sequence as to what part in my life, but more on just who I remember at the time and would want to extend the thanks to 🙂   When I got into music, I was a little 12 year old boy who just learned guitar and drums and played in a Metallica cover band. As I recall, there never were grade school bands before us and the…

No. I’m not dying. In fact, it’s the complete opposite why I’m doing this. It is this feeling of life and simply being alive, that I am reminded of where I am now and how I got here. Our successes in life, even if it may appear little to some, are still worthwhile in those things we would look back on one day, and all of these wouldn’t be possible if not for the everyday people God put across our…

To all my family and friends, you may (or may not yet) have received an invite to like my new page, and if you feel like supporting, please do smile emoticon

However, I also want to be responsible in letting you know what it’s about and not just some spammy call for likes.

After years of holding back, much to my regret in delaying, I finally decided to let everyone in what I’ve been up to behind…

   Full disclosure: I was provided with a pair of Grain Audio’s new IEHP.01 for review :)

Having received my new Grain Audio earbuds, I had to compare them with my current pairs of in-ear buds namely my Urbanears Bagis MK1 and my Sol Republic Amps. Unfortunately, the Amps has been discontinued as it is gone from their website already, and the Bagis that I have is their earlier model.  Some may say…

The Lord is My Peace and Joy

The past weeks have been quite a challenge for me with the studio…

About 3-4 weeks ago, 3 cabinets had some termite problems. One cabinet had all my treasured CD cases complete with the inlays. Unfortunately, they got through about maybe 40 cases most my favorites that I ended up throwing :(

A week after that, the rains started. When the studio was built, I put in place a covered drain in front…

Back in around 2001-2002, I made a whole album of lounge and organic downtempo tunes on Fruity Loops on my old ASUS laptop that was more expensive than the current generation MacBook Pros hahaha (computers were expensive then)

Anyway, I finished the tunes but I never got to finalize them for release that all of the tracks just got demo rendered and converted to 128kbps mp3s never to be salvaged….

Selling some equipment guys. Feel free to send me a message or post a comment if you have some questions. :) 

    AKAI MPK49 Keyboard Controller 10k – minor issues (mod wheel doesn’t go back fully to 0. One knob needs cleaning cuz it’s kinda erratic. All these can be filtered or disabled so that it won’t be a problem). Comes with box.

   AKAI APC40 Controller 10k Full working condition with…

I’ve never been this excited and nervous all mixed up for a DJ set.  I’ll be playing for a music festival tonight organized by our church in an open field in Southville International School. 

What makes me have mixed feelings is cuz I prepared a set that I’ve been meaning to do all my life. Yes, I said ALL my life.  I’ve always loved breaks. Unfortunately, it’s not as big in Manila as it is in…

Now before anyone gets the idea of piracy and such. This post isn’t about that. In fact, this is to counter that because there are a lot of DJs out there who don’t bother supporting the artists creating the tunes and simply decide to download everything while…

Shortcuts = Efficient Workflow

If you’re in the creative industry like graphics, arts, music, we all somehow work with some kind of application and what better way to speed things up while working is to know the keyboard shortcuts. As much as we can get them in manuals and such, here’s a nice little site that makes things easier with a real time interactive guide on your keyboard.

It’s for Mac though but I’m sure if you’re…

Hello There, Studio One!

  I recently jumped into Presonus’ DAW called Studio One….

Some of you may be asking, “Studio what?” I won’t be surprised if you haven’t heard of it. A lot of the users call it their little secret. You’d also be forgiven for not knowing it because it’s only in it’s early versions (currently 2) and most producers would probably have Protools, Logic, Live, Cubase in their priority list before they…

Additional Learning at BAM

As I do my Fridays are bookmark days here’s something interesting…

If you have some time on your hands and want to learn something really in depth online for free, check out http://bamaudioschool.com/audiocourse/00_0_courseindex.htmlI’m sure some of you guys would try it…

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In case you missed it, I started my mixes upload again after so long. I plan to do this monthly at least without anything set in terms of sound as this is more of simply music appreciation than anything so expect it to be a bit varied as what you will hear on my mixcloud at the moment. Also, don’t expect…