Nate Lockwood

Senior Year Wrap Up

natelockwood — Wed, 15 May 2013 15:32:36 +0000

Sorry for the lack of posts/tweets/facebook/instagram ect. lately. Not to say I haven’t been busy! Since my last real update lots has been happening.

I Graduated!

It still hasn’t completely hit me yet that I am no longer a college student, but on May 4th (Happy Star Wars Day) I graduated Magna Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Music degree in Music Technology from Capital University. I’d like to thank my family, friends and the wonderful people of Capital for all of their support these last 4 years.

Leading up to graduation I was finishing up my senior project for Music for Media. The project was to take a clip from a movie and completely redo all of the sound for it. I chose a scene from Moneyball and you can watch it below. Big thanks to Paul Talbot for writing the score and to everyone who helped with voices, sound effects and being in my cheering crowd!

Moneyball Sound Replacement Project from Nate Lockwood on Vimeo.

New Work

I am also excited to announce that I am now the Production Coordinator for Christian Howes Strings! I was an intern for Christian this past semester doing a combination of production and marketing work, and I am now taking the lead role in handling all production projects. Let me know if you need live strings on your tracks!

Finishing Projects

I’m still working on the last touches on the Chris Bosca EP as well as some new material with the Skashank Redemption. Stay tuned for that to drop soon! Dominique De Biasio and Marneé Richardson both have unreleased material that I had a hand in that should be coming out sometime in the near future as well.

Future

At the end of May, I will be moving back to the Massillon/Canton area. As many of you know, I am marrying my lovely fiancé Kristina Kandel in August of this year. Krissy will be attending the University of Akron for Law School, and we will be living in Canton while she is there. That means if you are looking for audio/video work in North East Ohio make sure to hit me up! I’d also love to get back into playing a little more, so if you are in need of a drummer or a bassist I’d love to start gigging again. Let’s make some music!

Tape Machine for sale

natelockwood — Fri, 03 May 2013 13:43:07 +0000

It is time or Nick and I to part ways with our beloved (if underused) TEAC A6300 reel to reel machine. The motors on the machine work fine and playback is fine. The only issue is somewhere in the record circuit, either the heads are bad or the bias is way off. With Nick and I graduating and him moving to Nashville, we felt that the easiest thing to do was to sell it.

We are asking $150 for the tape machine, around 40 reels of tape, a head de magnetizer and a tape eraser. Shoot me an email at natelockwood@natelockwood.com, or hit me up on any of my social media sites for more information.

Dominique De Biasio EP

natelockwood — Sat, 20 Apr 2013 23:12:24 +0000

The time is finally here:

One of my closest friends Dominique De Biasio has released her debut self-titled EP. I had the pleasure of doing the tracking on the song “Valleys” before the project was turned over to my friend Adam Miller at JSR Studios. I’m super pleased with the outcome of the album, and I’m so excited that I was able to be a part of it. You can buy the album at http://dominiquedebiasio.bandcamp.com/album/dominique-de-biasio.

Also I worked on a super-secret bonus track with Dominique that is going to be released sometime in the near-future so stay tuned for that one!

And lastly, Dominique gave her senior recital today at Capital University (which was totally amazing). And myself, Joey Pasternak and Nick Lane all worked to provide sound reinforcement as well as capture a multi-track recording. I’m not sure when it will be released, but be sure to keep an eye out for it!

Student Music Tech Workshop

natelockwood — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 15:30:14 +0000

On April 6th Capital University will be hosting it’s first annual Student Music Tech Workshop in conjunction with TI:ME and the AES Capital University Student Section! There will be a wide variety of lectures, presentations, and hands on workshops. Topics range from studio recording to live sound to sound for picture. Highlighting the event will be a series of presentations by Grammy Award Winning producer and engineer Luke Wooten. Luke is a producer and engineer working in Nashville and will be giving a presentation on working in the industry, as well as an in-depth presentation on using Melodyne. I will be presenting a mic shootout presentation/workshop where we will discuss the process of doing a mic shootout, and then comparing the sounds of several common vocal microphones.

Spots are limited so be sure to register today! Register at http://bit.ly/MusicTechWorkshop Hope to see you there!

Eisenpower App

natelockwood — Sun, 17 Mar 2013 15:30:46 +0000

I’m straying away from my usual type of post, but I wanted to talk about a cool time management app I came across yesterday. It’s called Eisenpower, and is basically a task list that divides your task list into 4 different lists based on priority. It also allows you to schedule reminders through the iCloud reminders app, so reminders show up on your iPhone, iPod, iPad, and/or computer always keeping you on top of what you need to get done. Currently it is only available on the Mac App store for OSX 10.8 and up. (sorry Nick Lane and the other Snow Leopard die-hards out there). There is supposedly an iOS version coming out soon, which would make this even more appealing. Best of all, it is FREE for the rest of TODAY (3-17-13) and can be found here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/eisenpower/id571070676?mt=12 …

I’ve made Eisenpower projects for several different projects that I’m working on, and I like that I can change the name of each list to fit the project (although I am a fan of the “really?!” tab for those stupid tasks you have to do). Here is how I’ve put it in action to help me organize my Music for Media project:

Eisenpower in Action

As I continue to dig into it and figure out my best way of organizing things I’ll add to this post!

Chapel Choir Video

natelockwood — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 14:49:42 +0000

This past week/weekend I had the pleasure of making a very special video. Along with the help of Xavier McAllister and Darita Seth, I filmed the Capital University Chapel Choir singing Eric Whitacre’s “Animal Crackers Vol. II”. We added a slight twist however, bringing in some extra “singers” into the project. I did all of the editing on the project (in Final Cut Pro X), under the direction of Dr. Lynda Hasseler and the assistance of two choir students: John McClain and Nancy de Leon. To top it all off, the video was sent to Eric Whitacre and he loved it! Enjoy!

Joshua Parker

natelockwood — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 16:01:43 +0000

I’m excited to announce that Joshua Parker has released his “Lack of Better Things” EP. The EP was produced by Nathan Drury, and I had the pleasure of tracking the Vocals and Violin overdubs. Check it out here! http://joshuaparker.bandcamp.com/

Lack of Better Things EP by Joshua Parker

Microsoft Generation App

natelockwood — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 18:10:19 +0000

Here is a video about the Generation App program that Microsoft held at Capital. You might notice a familiar face.

As far as that app goes, still working on it. Computer Science and coding are still relatively new things to me. For more information about the event please visit Capital Spotlight: Microsoft’s Generation App at Capital University.

New Skashank Redemption Song!

natelockwood — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 18:35:04 +0000

The Skashank Redemption has released their newest single “I Wish you Would”! I mixed this song and it was mastered by my good friend Nick Lane. Skashank entered this song into CD 102.5′s Battle of the Bands contest, so hopefully it will be getting some radio play soon! To hear more from The Skashank Redemption, check out their ReverbNation page.

Get Band email for free at ReverbNation.com

Singing Valentines!

natelockwood — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 23:16:22 +0000

Today I stepped out of my usual role as an audio engineer, and sang in a Barbershop quartet with some of my fraternity brothers around campus today. Every year the Epsilon Phi chapter of Phi Mu Alpha does “singing valentines” as a fundraiser. This event is always a hit on campus, and I had a great time.

Below is a video of us singing “Heart of my Heart” to Heather Massey and our other friends in the admissions office!