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Articles from June 2008

Meet Homer Simpson

 

Homer's voice is performed by Dan Castellaneta, who also voices several other characters, including Homer's father Abe. The second video is a different interview featuring other characters.


The 3 to 1 rule

 

Suppose you have set up several microphones to pick up sound sources. Each sound source has its own close-placed mic. You are mixing the mic signals through a mixer.

My Engineer's Drum toolkit

 

Here are some items that can prove indispensable to getting you through the obstacle course of a drum-recording session. The trick is to pull them out only when necessary; you don't want to give the impression you're infringing on the drummer's territory.

Drum Tuning - Getting the right tune from your drums

 

A drum is essentially a cylinder with a vibrating head stretched tightly over each end. Hoops, typically made of metal but sometimes made of wood or plastic, hold the heads against the bearing edges of the drum shell. The hoops are held in place by a number of tunable lugs (typically 5 to 12, depending on the size and type of drum) positioned equidistantly around the drum shell on either end.

Voice of Bart Simpson

 

On Australian’s weekly television talk show Rove Live, hosted by Rove McManus, he speaks with Nancy Cartwright who is famous for the voice of Bart Simpson. In the interview, she also impersonates does other charactors such as Nelson Muntz, Rod & Todd Flanders and others.

“Programação Genérica” - Análise e Estrutura de Dados [pt-pt]

 

Analisando o termo "genérico", não associado ao mundo da programação, simplesmente significa que não está directamente ligado a uma marca. Por exemplo, ao comprar um lava loiças genérico (lava loiças sem marca), sabemos que estamos a comprar um lava loiças e esperamos que nos ajude a lavar a loiça sem na realidade saber qual a marca exacta (se alguma) que está por detrás de tal produto. Aquirimos o lava loiças apenas para o nosso fim, ignorando a todo o tempo, qual o seu conteúdo.

Cadeira I.P.1 - Iniciação ao Javascript [pt-pt]

 

(article available only in portuguese)

Projecto simples de iniciação ao javascript e html, linguangens aprofundadas através do desenvolvimento do conhecido jogo do forcado.

Create Samples With Absynth

 

The simplest and easy way I've found for creating samples with Native Instruments Absynth.
If you find it usefull and create some wicked samples please let me know.

Capturing the Drummer - Recording KiPlug drums

 

After finishing the first stage of Kiplug's recordings and after being in the studio mixing and EQ and finally after reading all resources I could found from my book/mag library I really had the need to post all the information I could gather and therefore this can be come in handy (specially for me :).

Please note this is an ongoing documentation about the process.

iGoogle Fav themes

 

Finnaly took some time to customize iGoogle.
That being said :) I've found some nice interesting and cute themes for iGoogle that I'm sharing.


Hope you like them as well.
Please leave me a note when you find some other iGoogle themes.