By Dorgan, on January 17th, 2012%
I was very saddened to hear that Colin Lay passed away. Colin was my, and many of my friends’ and peers’, recording instructor at Grant MacEwan College. I can’t overstate how much I learned from him in just one year. He was incredibly knowledgeable about the physics and the art of recording, a thorough . . . → Read More: Colin Lay
By Dorgan, on August 17th, 2011%
Once again I knew I was going to be in London so I brought an album to the magnificent Abbey Road Studios to have mastered. Last summer we did Peter Belec’s ‘Melodic Miner’ disc with senior mastering engineer Peter Mew (David Bowie, The Beatles, Paul McCartney, etc., etc.) and this time it was . . . → Read More: Mastering Session at Abbey Road Studios
By Dorgan, on July 15th, 2011%
AV was just in to record solo piano and vocal and shoot a video for a song commissioned by the Canada Tourism Commission. With Ann, 3 videographers, and their lights, it got pretty warm in the piano . . . → Read More: Ann Vriend Video Shoot
By Dorgan, on April 22nd, 2011%
We recorded these two songs live off the floor (minus vocals) and now, only days later, they’ve been made into awesome videos and are available for download from Tim’s website. These guys are going to be piling into their steal of a Rock Van and touring across the country this Spring and Summer. Watch . . . → Read More: New Tim Gilbertson Videos & Free Song Downloads!
By Dorgan, on March 3rd, 2011%
Here’s a little video of Bill “Furious” George (of Red Ram and Modo Trio) playing the drums on a session for artist CameronSound. When you’ve got a pro drummer like Bill playing, the session almost engineers itself. I find I need to use way less EQ and compression for a great player. (Of . . . → Read More: Bill George on the kit
By Dorgan, on February 17th, 2011%
On the other side of the glass today! I played some Hammond B-3 organ and Wurlitzer piano on a couple songs of Kaley Bird’s, with producer / engineer Terry Tran (pictured) at the helm. Great songs, lots of . . . → Read More: Keyboards for Kaley Bird
By Dorgan, on January 24th, 2011%
Producers Brad Smith and Fred Brenton (a/k/a The Fredditor) were in session this weekend with awesome young artist Michael Amirault. They’re working on an EP called The Most Blessed Man.
By Dorgan, on December 28th, 2010%
Those of you who were around Edmonton in the ’90s might remember a band of 9 greasy teens calling themselves The Bell Jar Blues Band and playing funky garage blues. Well, tonight we got together to hang and jam and compare hair loss and heartbreak.
Those who could . . . → Read More: Bell Jar Blues Band reunion
By Dorgan, on December 27th, 2010%
By Dorgan, on December 15th, 2010%
Bruce Bischoff of Piano Action tunes our Yamaha C3 grand piano. Whenever Bruce is here I don’t just get a beautiful sounding piano, I also get a physics, music, and history lesson.
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