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How to Build a Vocal Booth

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Morph Productions, my Toronto based studio ended up moving this summer and the new space required that I build a vocal booth.  I'm pretty handy and have tackled many home improvement projects but nothing so involved as framing and drywalling a room within a room from scratch.  In addition to that I also had to make space for a window and door (with extra wide) door jamb.  Sometimes when life gives you challenges you just have to give yourself a little pep talk before you get started and then... get started.  Here's a few pics and descriptions on how I made my vocal booth for the new studio.  I'll also put a few things in of times where I went wrong to help you if you're building your own vocal booth.  I'm by no means an expert and you'll want to reference other resources to build a booth of your own but hopefully you'll find a few useful nuggets of info that will help you on your build. #1 Supplies: I decided to make the booth double studded on the two...

The Year That Was 2015!

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2015 was definitely an interesting year with a lot of different challenges and success.  In the year previous I was asked by Tep No to come up with a classical guitar line for a tropical house tune he wanted to do.  I did it late one night and he developed a great song around it that wasn't released till January 2015.  We had the fortune to have it premier on the BBC on Pete Tong's radio show and that really helped launch it.  By the end of 2015 it had 2 licenses (Michael Korrs video and a US tv show) and it got  4 million listens on Spotify.  We'll see how much farther it can go in the new year.  Here's the song on spotify and the Michael Kors video: From this collaboration I ended up meeting other deep house producers who liked what I was doing and wanted to collaborate as well.  I've been doing a lot of work with Chicago producer Kiso Armic and a French producer Daitshi.  A remix I contributed guitars to for Kiso ended up going...