http://www.criticaldistance.net Welcome to Critical Distance Media, the online portfolio and personal blog of Sebastian Saucan, recording and mix engineer. Please feel free to explore the site.. Thu, 14 Aug 2008 02:21:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Thank you for visiting my new site! I've been working on wrapping up a couple projects and getting ready to post them to to the portfolio before the site fully launches. My hope for this site is to use it as an online showcase of my work, so check back ... http://www.criticaldistance.net/2008/08/01/preparing-for-launch/ CK is a new Dutch band based in The Hague. I definitely see tons of potential in these guys and working on the song with them was great fun. This recording and mix was my final project at SAE Amsterdam. Melodic pop/rock in the vein of Oasis and The Beatles. Written ... http://www.criticaldistance.net/2008/07/25/ck-if-we-had-a-say/ I'm done with school! All assignments are done and turned in and my final project is mixed and mastered. Just have to sweat it out for a couple of weeks until the results are out... I'm pretty happy with the way the final turned out. The song is ... http://www.criticaldistance.net/2008/05/25/man-it-feels-good/ school has been totally hectic lately. it's totally crunch time. 2 more months left and everyone is stressing the fuck out about their final projects... myself included. i've been in a state of perpetual self-doubt... it's no good. sometimes i wish i would be content with a ... http://www.criticaldistance.net/2008/04/01/im-going-crazy/ just saw this movie last night and i can't stop thinking about it. i always thought myself rather astute... but this movie is just too open to interpretation and i'm really struggling to come to terms with it. i really just need to vent to someone about it. ... http://www.criticaldistance.net/2008/02/25/the-nines/ i just read a cool blog post about how r.e.m. has open sourced 11 videos for a song off their new album to encourage listeners to remix the videos and share them on r.e.m.'s youtube page. this is pretty exciting to hear, not necessarily because i want to participate, but because ... http://www.criticaldistance.net/2008/02/22/the-future-of-music/ so for the last week or two i've been having some rough mornings. waking up all stuffy and sneezy and seemingly under the weather. this can only mean one thing: it's almost spring and my allergies are starting to kick in. although i'm really excited about the prospect ... http://www.criticaldistance.net/2008/02/19/somethings-in-the-air/ i just stumbled upon some of the funniest videos i've seen on youtube for a long time... 'you suck at photoshop' by donnie hoyle. check em out! they are tutorials covering some photoshop basics. really hilarious and surprisingly informative :) there are some rumors floating around that it could ... http://www.criticaldistance.net/2008/02/19/you-suck-at-photoshop/ 7 days and counting... i need my macbook! fuck. http://www.criticaldistance.net/2008/02/11/waiting/ i had a conversation with an old friend the other day... and it's interesting because when we talk, somehow the subjects of marriage and children seem to rear their ugly heads. i have always been very firm on the fact that i don't want children and really have ... http://www.criticaldistance.net/2008/02/11/maybe-i-was-wrong/