Take A Walk on de Wilde Side

One of the very cool things about working with Sam is his willingness to try anything, and then be happy to completely throw it out if he feels it doesn’t work. This was the case for the horn parts for Poverty Blues. I thought they worked great, but Sam has decided to take the track on […]

Oh man, it’s been a long long time coming, but it’s great to finally be back online again with my website. It’s been around two years since the domain of www.jasondewilde.com expired, and then was promptly purchased by some unknown guy in the US! So I’ve had to resort to jasondewilde.com.au. The design of this […]

Two session players that work with Sam are Stuart West (Trumpet, flugel horn, harmonica, melodica and more) and Tony Gibson (Trombone) came into the studio today. Their task was lay down some parts for Poverty Stricken Blues, a sort of African number with four-to-floor stomping and plenty of glorious melodic guitar parts. We hadn’t worked […]

I’d like to congratulate Jason de Wilde on the launch of his very unique website, with a look you would only come across in a studio. With Custom sliders and animations on the homepage, this will sure catch the eyes of viewers. Not only are his viewers going to have a pleasant time exploring, but […]

Recording with my friend Dave Keys is always a funny experience. We have known each other for years, and it would be fair to say that he was my best friend for a long time. We don’t catch up much now, but today was good excuse to touch base, or actually touch bass. I remember […]

Every now and then, the “glamourous” life of an audio engineer is disrupted by something slightly on the mundane side – it’s called printing. Basically, even though the technology lets us do wonderful things, like have lots of Instrument Plug-ins, it’s generally a safer option to print these as audio files. Some computers (like mine) […]

Stewart Kirwan is one of my students, and besides that he is also an extremely funny guy. He is one these people that basically will shit stir anyone just to get a reaction. But he does it in such a funny way, that you can’t help being part of it. He also possesses one other […]

Well, considering my severe lack of a social life, I spent much of the day listening to the various drum takes of Change To Survive and Getting Out. I also had to sift through the various timpani parts from the other night. Whilst this appears to be mundane, I actually quite enjoy it. It’s sessions […]

We needed to do the drums for 2 songs tonight; Change To Survive was the song that Jarrod had sent down recently with the wrong tempo. That has since been fixed. The other song was the re-recording of the drums for Getting Out. We set the drums up virtually identical to last time with the […]

St Aloysius in Milson’s is one of those schools you always hoped you could afford to send your kids to. Located virtually right underneath the Sydney Harbour Bridge on the northern side, it seems to be an unlikely spot to have a school, as the real estate alone would be worth a fortune. It is […]