Today, at Frankfurt Musikmesse, StudioBricks has announced the new StudioBricks One Plus. Guillermo Jungbauer has taken everything that he has learned from the original StudioBricks One and improved upon it with the One Plus.
The first noticeable difference is the size. The original One had an...
In Part 1 of this series, I went through the questions that anyone should ask themselves to see if their sound issues can be handled without the expense of a Vocal Isolation Booth. In Part 2, I went through some questions that anyone should consider if they have decided that they do indeed need...
So, it turns out, that after doing some pretty thorough research (see last week’s article), I do in fact indeed need a Vocal Isolation Booth. And, with all of the choices on the market, it seems like a good idea to document the process.
Question #1: Do I want to permanently transform part of my ...
At some point, almost all Voice Over Professionals ask themselves the same question: Do I need a real Vocal Isolation Booth to improve the sound quality in my studio?
For most of us, the answer really should be No.
We can handle boxy or reverberant spaces with simple sound treatment p...
So far, 2014 is shaping up to be a great year.
I completed two wonderful projects in January (an audiobook and a website).
The audiobook is an interesting piece of speculative fiction by JC Andrijeski called Karma. The story revolves around two immortal souls that encounter each other th...
Karma by JC Andrijeski was definitely an enjoyable project to work on.
The story was provocative, and the author was a wonderful collaborator. Hopefully, I will get to record more of her work in the near future.
The story details the meetings of two immortal souls over many lifetimes. And, ho...
Even after using almost every advanced DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) out there, I still have a soft spot in my heart for Audacity.
It’s a wonderful piece of open source software that can handle an incredible number of common audio editing tasks. One reason that people sometimes leave Aud...
I had a wonderful coaching session the other day with Carol Monda.
If you don’t know her work, scroll through her audiobook credits, choose one, and listen… They are all great.
Carol has an amazing voice and uncanny acting instincts. I was honored to have some one-on-one time with her to hel...
Sometimes, blogging can seem to get in the way of creativity.
Tearing one’s self away from substantial projects long enough to formulate a valuable posting can feel like a creative disservice. This concept probably seems “odd”, but should it?
After all, if the purpose of blogging is to draw atte...
“One day, I shall come back. Yes, I shall come back. Until then, there must be no regrets, no tears, no anxieties. Just go forward in all your beliefs and prove to me that I am not mistaken in mine.”
— The First Doctor
It has been four years since I finished writing my last Doctor Who script,...
Many months have passed since my last post, and a lot has happened.
And, by now, you have probably noticed one big change — this site is not running gasp or drupal (or wordpress for that matter).
I was playing around with gasp, in hopes of modifying it to work in a database-less (XML) mode. Fi...
Recently, I got an email from Dries Buytaert (CTO of Acquia) that I’d like to share with you.
Hello stevenjaycohen,
recently Mollom has been feeling kind of lonely. We noticed that your site https://stevenjaycohen.com hasn’t made any requests to Mollom for about two weeks.
If you decid...
Over the last few weeks, I have completely rebuilt GaSP (both the front and back ends).
It is now fast, secure, and intuitive, while keeping the source code easily readable (Hey, I spent too many years as an educator for that not to be one of my goals). All of the changes inspired me to buil...
After a bit of a refactoring frenzy of late, GaSP can now intelligently reformat its content for mobile, tablet, and desktop computers. I big thank you goes out to the people behind PHP Mobile Detect for helping to make it this easy to implement.
Making GaSP mobile-aware lead me to re-examin...
After a short stint of a few months with Drupal, you may have noticed that, once again, this site is running GaSP.
Drupal is wonderfully powerful but was “getting in the way” instead of fascilitating creative expression.
So, I have resurrected the GaSP project. I am still doing a bit of cleani...