May 6th, 2007
Here’s a little bank holiday treat for anyone still reading my blog 
We’ve been busy working on new tracks and thought a nice DJ mix would be a good way to show off some new bits and also celebrate the fact that the first album will shortly be available on all major mp3 stores, just waiting on the encoding…
If you’re interested you can download the 30min mix of head nodding, booty shaking, bass wobbling Jellybass tunes here:
Jellybass Mix Vol 1 [28.2MB] – Right click to download
Feedback is welcome and feel free to add us to myspace (myspace.com/jellybass)
Enjoy
P.S. If Podcasting is your thang then here is the podcast link: JB Podcast
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April 19th, 2007
MP3 Trimmer
This program is a life saver! Can batch process a series of mp3 files and create short clips for you automatically. The length of the clips is adjustable and you can also set it to fade in and out. Whats better is that it doesn’t re-encode the mp3 for you so you’re not losing any quality either.
This guy will definately be getting my money, its a steal at only $10!
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April 7th, 2007
This is the ‘Photo & Vector’ tutorial… is nyce!
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April 7th, 2007
This one is loosely based on the ‘Displacement Effect’ tutorial… although they author didn’t provife the displacement maps they were trying to demonstrate… so its kinda everything but the displacement stuff lol
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April 7th, 2007
Found a load of archived tutorials over @ the Computer Arts website, so am working my way though them to try and block the holes in my Photoshop knowledge.
Here is the result of the tutorial ‘Another Dimension’
I think the background colouring is a little obvious, but I haven’t quite worked out how to do the technique to make it more subtle yet
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April 7th, 2007
Ordered some RAM for my sampler from Amazon… that is it on the bottom right of the image. On the left is the package they sent it in… can’t beleive nobody thought this was a little excessive?
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April 5th, 2007
This is mostly for my own benefit but found this useful tip today:
On a Mac you can make a non-linear selection in a body of text by holding the alt (option) button and drawing a rectangle around the text you want to highlight…. this is useful if you wanted to select a column from a text file
Most text editors seem to support this feature
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April 4th, 2007
These are the best sample CD’s i’ve heard in along time… most sample CD’s leave me feeling a bit disappointed but from the demo’s (which are lengthy) these sound awesome!
Bit pricey… but will be aiming to get these at some point.
Chix think you would like the Breakbeat Jazz one
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March 29th, 2007
I’ve had Photoshop for a while now but never really got on with it because of my pre-ocupation with Vector graphics, found an awesome tutorial this morning though which has really opened my eyes to the power it has and also the ease certain techniques can be achieved… namely this really cool lighting effect which I’ve been trying in vein to do in illustrator for along time
Next experiment… combine Vector art with this kinda cool lighting effects
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March 22nd, 2007
I recently got some dubplates cut for Chix’s birthday. I’ve had traditional dubs cut before and they are heavy and don’t last… so I wan’t to try out a new method I’ve being hearing about, which they claim offers ‘unlimited plays for a one off vinyl’.
I’d heard good things about Vinylcarvers but hadn’t used them… the hype is true, they are awesome! Honest and accurate responses to emails in a more than acceptable time! They even upgraded my postage for free on their own innitiative so that the vinyl would arrive in time to give to Chix for his birthday.
I will definately be using them again!
Incidently the vinyl sounds good and actually appears to be more like vinyl, only time will tell how well it lasts compared to other dubplates/acetates but yeah generally very pleased with the whole process!
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