Dada Life’s Sausage Fattener VST – Demo and Review [VIDEO]
Wednesday, May 25th, 2011
Tried out Dada Life’s new VST, the Sausage Fattener ($29), today. Shoutout to my main man Drew Frey, who bought it for our studio (and by studio, I mean my living room) ’cause I’m poor.
What it promises to do is “fatten” your sound. Dada Life says it can be used on a single track, or a bus, or on the whole track to master. After playing with it for twenty minutes, looks like it’s dead on.
How-To: Make a Top 10/Most Popular/Popular Now widget using the Chartbeat API
Tuesday, May 24th, 2011
Chartbeat is a real-time analytics web app that lets you see how many people are on your site, which pages they’re currently on, how they got there, how fast the pages are loading, and a host of other useful stats.
If that’s not enough, however, Chartbeat also has a robust API. I haven’t tapped into much of its potential, but I did use it to make this nifty little “popular now” widget.
All it does is call the API, request the top pages (built in function), and then displays them. Easy, right? Well, it is.
Filthy Friday, Feb 18, ’11 – Dirty Dubstep Mixtape
Thursday, March 3rd, 2011
One of my favorite music blogs, earmilk.com, does a weekly “Filthy Friday” column where they post 10ish dirty dub tracks every week. (Another one of my favorites is Wobble Wednesday, all dubstep, all the time.)
Here’s a mix I did of their Feb. 18 edition. Thanks to @crimestein for the track selection and for promoting the mix on ear milk.
If you want a how-to on the making of this mix, hit me up in the comments and I’ll post a tutorial.
Listen:
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DJing with Ableton Live: Midi Controllers
Friday, February 11th, 2011
The most fun part about DJing, for me, is messing around with nobs. Yeah, I like playing with nobs. Eat it up. Tweaking nobs with a mouse just doesn’t give the same satisfaction as tweaking a real live one. Enter: equipment.
You can literally use any midi controller you want to fire events in Live, but there are some that I’ve settled on after screwing around with (and wasting too much money on) dozens of ‘em for the last four years.
Note: If you’re just getting into using Live to DJ, you might want to check out my tutorial, DJing with Ableton Live, the Easy Way. Continue Reading →
How-To: Make a clickable background takeover
Wednesday, February 9th, 2011
With advertisers slowly getting over the banner ad thing, background takeovers (clickable background images) are becoming more popular. Although they’re a pain in the ass (I accidentally click on them all the time), they’re quite valuable to advertisers, and thus a good revenue stream.
Making them work, however, can be a total bitch. Here’s how I do it. It’s definitely not a science, and I’m not winning any CSS awards, but it works.
There are three steps. Continue Reading →
Who Owns Whom in Snow Media?
Thursday, November 4th, 2010
Here is a quick reference of the big players in the ski and snowboard media space. All magazines and websites are predominantly owned by two massive media companies: Bonnier and Source. SMP is the third player, with two magazines (and the mags’ respective websites).
Source Interlink Media (~100 magazines)
- Action Sports Group
- Powder
- Snowboarder
- GrindTV (network of websites)
- Newschoolers.com
Bonnier Corporation (~50 magazines)
- Bonnier Mountain Group
- Ski
- Skiing
- Warren Miller
- Transworld Snowboarding
Storm Mountain Publishing (2 magazines)
- Freeskier
- Snowboard
Mini Mix: Worker’s Wiggle (Dubstep)
Sunday, October 10th, 2010
Put together this 26-minute dubstep mix this weekend. Enjoy!
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Worker’s Wiggle (Dubstep Mix) by harvitronix
Mixed by: @harvitronix
Track List:
1. Cruel ft. Julie Thompson – Pyramid (SkisM Remix)
2. Swagga (Downlink Remix)
3. Scream n’ Shout (Skrillex Remix)
4. Flux Pavilion – Normalize
5. Deadmau5 – Ghosts n’ Stuff (Nero Remix)
6. Professor Green – Monster ft. Example (Camo & Krooked Remix)
7. Rusko – Woo Boost
8. Fresnch-Soler – Lies (Doctor P Remix)
9. Flux Pavilion – Lines in the Wax
Mini Mix: October Fire (with Drew Frey)
Friday, October 8th, 2010
Mixed by: @Harvitronix
Tracks selected by: @FreyDrew
Alternate mix name: Lotsa Dada Life (smiley)
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October Fire (with @FreyDrew) by harvitronix
Track List :
1. Bloody Beetroots – Domino
2. Dimitri Vegas, Like Mike feat. Dada Life – Tomorrow
3. Kaskade feat. Haley – Dynasty (Dada Life Remix)
4. Light Year – Sex Education
5. Dad Life – Cookies with a Smile
6. Squeeeze – Doop (Uppermost Remix)
7. Tiesto feat. Diplo – C’mon
8. Boy 8-Bit – The Keep
9. Animal Rights (Kids at the Bar edit)
OK Go – White Knuckles (Harvitronix Remix)
Sunday, September 26th, 2010
OK Go is holding a remix contest. This is my entry. Would love to hear feedback! Special thanks to Drew Frey for his input on this one.
If you’ve got time, I’d be stoked it if you voted for my entry in the contest. Just gotta enter your e-mail address.
Cheers,
M.
Climbing the Grand Teton Tomorrow
Friday, August 27th, 2010
When I signed up to climb the Grand this summer, it seemed like a long ways away. But now, the time has come. I’m heading up tomorrow at 9am. The weather looks awful, but we’re going to give it a shot anyway.
Here’s a quick video of me climbing a route in Grand Teton National park. Hopefully I can move a bit quicker tomorrow.