SnowGhost Music

It was always funny to me that the labels sold people on 44.1kHz CDs because of them being quiet and indestructible - really they were neither - their noise just lives in another frequency band, and they get dinged up pretty easily. In reality, as you may or may not know, it was the $.07 vs $7 production cost delta, while keeping the retail price the same.... I think Netflix just learned the same lesson about providing their customers a lesser product at a higher price, while further confusing them with two sites for their services. Talk about the classic example of adding insult to injury - now, I am paying more to Amazon to watch a la carte. The difference between the music industry and Netflix, you ask? Netflix learned their lesso... read more >

We just time traveled. It's guaranteed that History repeats itself, but in most cases with a new hair color. It is not all that common that History finds itself digging back into its closet to find an old turntable - I guess we never really bettered ourselves.

SnowGhost just bought a turntable for the studio, to showcase the wonders of the analog consumer medium, juxtaposed against a digital wallpapered world. In fact, this debate is not all that far off from comparing a nice plaster-textured wall to wallpaper. Wallpaper can get you there - or maybe it just keeps you from going crazy white-wall on everyone. There is something very soothing about textured walls. I don't know why, but it just feels like home.

Some of my fr... read more >

Here's an in studio performance my song 'The Deal', which gets a lot more ambient treatment with backing vocals for the record. I'll post a rough of where we're at, very soon.

The well-oiled industry keeps artists together. They are their best self, in the eyes of the public...

As a engineer/producer in the current environment, I find that I am dealing with totally competent artists that usually come from educated backgrounds in the traditional science, business, and literature fields. They just happen to be really good musicians as well. Example: So Percussion (Reich-ish quartet), all college grads, all very savy, and all very capable of running their own business. In addition to making great artists, they find the time to continue their study of music, production, performance, and even business. They are tuning themselves. They learn where they feel comfortable cutting corners, DIY-ing it, and the... read more >

Here is the Beach House edit with Brian Wright adding double tracked drums, and Jason Lytle on vocals and synths, as well as cutting it up with the razor-blade to make it more cohesive.