Mike Ramnarine

Music, Technology, Life

What Does it Mean to “Trust your Ears”?

We’re all just trying to get the best mix we can, but sometimes it can be hard to tell whether we’re making things better or worse. Or even more disheartening; making a change one day and then playing at a friend’s or client’s and it sounding nothing like you expected. There are as many ways…

July 17, 2015
Shrinking Plug-in Headers in Logic Pro X

I’ve been doing some producing on my laptop recently and here’s a useful tip I’ve found for saving space on those smaller screens. When you open a plug-in window in Logic Pro it wraps the GUI itself in a black window with some extra options on. You could always enlarge a plug-in window (although I’m…

July 13, 2015
Bouncing Aux tracks in Logic Pro

Say you’ve got a few tracks grouped and bussed and you want to take a bounce to create a stem. The bounce in place feature is useful, but works track by track, and if freezing isn’t what you’re after. What if we want to bounce the whole drum group? How can we take the processed…

July 1, 2015
A Project Begins – An Arduino Unboxing

There’s a Maker‘s Space at the DAI in Heidelberg that’s just started up. I’ve been to the DAI a couple times. It has an awesome collection of (English language) books and I want to read them all. It’s an inspiring place by itself and I came away from the maker’s meetup wanting to do more. The group is…

March 28, 2015
Thoughts on Hip Hop?

Recently, a friend asked me what I thought about Hip Hop. Big question. I paused and shrugged it off. I probably mentioned a couple of artists. I usually don’t like broad questions, but this one stuck. The question may be superficial, but what do I know and think of hundreds of individual artists? That’s worth…

March 21, 2015
One Month In

Wow! Has it been a month in Germany already? I had meant to do a not-a-new-years post, but I think the window on that was passed. Resolutions aren’t a thing I really believe in. Years a cyclic, but where we place a start and end is arbitrary. I don’t give much weight to calendars, so…

February 25, 2015
Alive on arrival in Germany

On Thursday I went to the registration office. After being seen I was almost immediately passed to someone else who spoke English. I could have filled in a form slowly, but not answer the questions in real time. Week one in Germany has come and gone, but I am now officially a resident. The move…

January 27, 2015
The things we keep, throw away and remember

For the past month I’ve been putting things into boxes and sorting them. Moving involves a lot of that. This time I’m moving further than before and shipping has been the only sensible way to get stuff to the other end. This has made me more critical of what I keep and what I toss,…

January 16, 2015
Food for Thought – A week and a half with Joylent

There was a time when it seemed like there was a war for cupboard space. Growing up there seemed to be an endless supply of cereal adverts all vying for their spot on your table. If the adverts were to believed there was no underestimating the importance of breakfast, especially for a child. The ideal…

October 26, 2014
The Nether

“You track them like bloodhounds. Now you want to tell them what to do. Or rather, what not to do. What not to think. What not to feel.” “You said it yourself – The Nether is becoming our contextual framework for being. If that happens, the same laws should apply” I discovered The Nether by…

October 18, 2014