Morph Productions

Here it is!  My band, As the City Rumbles Underneath 's new video.  This one was done with a lot more planning and we're really happy with the results.  We hired an experienced friend, Hunter Luis to direct which took a lot of pressure off us so we could just be "artists".  Another friend of mine, Jake Vincent was the videographer and he did a really great job.  Roz Gracie edited again and because she had a lot more footage to work with she really outdid herself this time.  It's times like this that you can appreciate having such talented friends! Whenever we do a video we get a few visuals in our heads and then we kind of do everything impromptu during shooting.  The main visual  I had for this song was two separate pieces of poster board with a half a heart so when they're combined you'd have a heart.  We took a lot of B roll with those hearts and I thought it looked great. Props to Hunter Luis for making such great hearts! Here the...

I'm writing this post to help fellow music producers and engineers who may have the same problems I've had with wrist pain.  Keep in mind I'm not a doctor so please contact your own doctor before making any changes to your healthcare. Something that a lot of people aren't aware of is that being a modern music producer/engineer involves a LOT of tedious editing on a computer.  One song can easily have hundreds of very small edits to make the performances sound perfect.  It's great that we have the technology to do this sort of editing but it does come with a toll to the person whose job it is to do it! There are a lot of music producer/engineers, myself included that have extensive wrist problems as a result of the years of editing on computers.  I myself developed problems about 3-4 years into my professional career. It's kind of hard to describe what it feels like other than to say there’s a bit of pain and discomfort while working on a computer or pl...

As some of you may know I've been working on a project with a good friend of mine Cat Forsley , called " As the City Rumbles Underneath ".  She approached me about making "shoegazer" music last summer and I got really excited about the prospects of doing something like that.  In the 90's while in college I fell in love with bands like My Bloody Valentine, Slowdive and Curve but I've never really had a lot of opportunity to pursue those kinds of sounds in my professional career at the studio.  Generally my space echo from the 70's sits idle, my many delays cry for... well you get the idea.  If you don't, here's a picture of my space echo which I use quite a bit for the music we make. Ashton's Space Echo Anyway, I was really interested in doing something like this and using some of the gear I've accumulated in a new way but I wasn't interested in recreating something that bands from the past had done.  Cat and I both felt the...