Death and beyond

Faces Of An Undying Nightmare

Trespassing Into Hell

"When there's no more room in hell, the dead will not walk very much"

I'm just back from recording several new scenes, this time mostly from an abandoned and very run down-place that reeks of evil, pain and generally bad manners! With rusty nails and chunks of metal, rotten floorboards, broken glass, and a lot of other pretty unhealthy stuff just waiting to get stepped on or treating me to a rather unpleasant fall I wasn't very cocky. Of course safety is always my number one priority, I never record anything without knowing I will not get hurt seriously in the process, but you're very aware of what surrounds you when in places like this.
There's something special about really old and worn locations, something that hasn't seen repairs or maintenance for years! I have now already a pretty wide variety of locations ranging from both contemporary interiors to heavily unearthly and mechanical surroundings to cold and hostile exteriors (though the focus of the movie s on claustrophobia and insecurity), and the soundscape will be anything but friendly. I love playing with decay and disharmony, and here there will be a lot of that.

/CvanC

Beating The System

The transition to 64bit Windows 8 in the studio was bitter-sweet. In many ways it was a great leap forward, both due to a way better memory-management, but also to a so far much improved stability and performance.
I expected pretty heavy problems, but initially it all went well, actually! Though I had to replace my trusty old but long since discontinued Matrox Parhelia APVe-card with a passive XFX HD 6570 (the Matrox card was also passive after ripping out (literary) the fan and build the cooling-system myself) and a Black Magic Intensity, the Lynx-cards and other drivers played along nicely! The much better OpenGL-processing capabilities of the AMD-card has been pure joy when playing back HD Quicktime movies when working in the DAW even!
There where no problem installing and running Nuendo 5.5, the new interface on Win8 wasn't very hard to get into, and most of my old plugins transfered well.
Except Altiverb and Dolby Media Meter. My two absolutely most expensive plugins in respect to what they do. Even trying to install the Dolby plugin screwed up my entire system, which is a shame as it quite frankly has one of my absolutely favorite limiters though perhaps a little CPU-greedy. Not to mention I bought it for a reason...