DOM SHOVELTON

Some sound design for ya…

It’s been brought to my attention by the very supportive Hugh Ip that I should let you all know that I do do sound design too! 

Have a look at this Ford Focus ST film as an example…

http://vimeo.com/42328748

Cheers D.

This music was composed by me to go with a 360 degree screen that enclosed Ford’s zone at the 2012 Detroit show. A 5.1 mix was prepped by Sebastian Frost (thank-you) to take advantage of huge rig that was on-site.

Nokia “Stories” (by david masters)

A lovely film by David which is currently on air in various parts of the globe!

He asked me to compose something fairly minimal with piano and this is the result.

I’ve entered this track into the MUSIC & SOUND AWARDS 2012 http://www.masawards.com/

I have a MacPro, I have a Macbook Pro, I have an Apogee Ensemble, I have some nice mics, I have some nice monitors, I have some fabulous music production software and sample libraries, BUT…. I still remain addicted to the latest music tech, exemplified by my obsessive following of NAMM this Jan… what the hell!

I’ve always thought that creating music has always been what’s between your ears, your ability to reach a certain emotion/vibe by carefully, soulfully building elements together to construct sound that makes you cry!

After faithfully following this years NAMM via various blogs and tech sites I’ve realised a sense of what goes around comes around.  Since I began my career in music composition in the mid 90’s some things have remained exactly the same - you need some decent speakers, some decent pre-amp for your decent mic & you spend your creative hours in front of these a computer screen and a master keyboard of some sort… have these really advanced that much in the past decade to warrant me being that interested in NAMM 2012?

These ARE AWESOME!!!!

You could almost do a studio mix on them…. well almost!  For the size they are very impressive, if you are in the market for small laptop/media speakers and you want excellent sound quality these puppies produce!

Nice

16GB RAM, huge difference with Logic….well for some of the projects I’m working on!

2 x 480GB SSD RAID 0….youch! write 280MBs… READ OVER 550 MBs…. LASS has never loaded so fast, mega-incredible!!!! 

That’s the geekfest for this month!

Fade | thedomus

the latest…

Just installed a hexa 3.33ghz in place of a quad 2.66ghz in my MacPro, all running fab!

Which is a relief, if I had fried the board…..ouch!

Thanks to Scott @ADK

SPACEHEADZ | thedomus

Way back from 2003!

Essence | thedomus

the latest…

Ford Evos Concept - Brand Film (by fordofeurope)

Here’s one of my latest compositional projects for Ford Europe… nothing wrong with a bit of dubstep!!!

Stars | thedomus

I’m loving this…. for some strange reason! Must be the unseasonal heat!!!

Nokia Lions - Cannes (by Dominic Shovelton)

… this was loads of fun!

Jeremy Ellis performs on Maschine Mikro (by NativeInstruments)

Thats what I call some serious finger work!!!

mmm… food for thought!

Just getting into these guys, nice to see & hear more Brits getting into high end sample libraries… more!!!