Author: Robin Labadie (LRob)
WordPress "Builders": The hidden face
Page builders for WordPress have been all the rage for years. These are visual editors designed to facilitate site layout. Elementor, Divi, WPBakery: web agencies, webmasters, everyone's using their own builder. A WordPress revolution, or a monumental mistake, what does the "WordPress expert" have to say? The promise [...]
New infrastructure: lrob.net and other server changes
As some of you already know, I'll be leaving HaiSoft in October to embark on new adventures with a web agency, still as Sysadmin and WordPress specialist, but now as hosting manager. A few months ago, I launched my own freelance webmaster business, which I've decided to officially accompany with hosting services for [...].
Compo 🎶 La Lutte
New piano solo compo! Spirit of the piece Through a succession of dissonances and harmonies, all in eighth notes, sixteenth notes or triplets, sometimes classical, sometimes jazzy, this piece evokes struggle for me. The struggle of everyday life, the struggle against a specific subject, the debate itself. [...]
Compo 🎶 Thirty One
It's been a long time since we've done a compo! Because we're 31, a "threshold" age that prompts some reflection. Am I still capable of making solo music? I had to relearn to play guitar and bass, write and sing in English, play realistic drums on a piano, mix... I didn't count,
What on earth is Sysadmin's job at a web hosting company?
In early 2017, I joined the web hosting company HaiSoft, full of self-taught sysadmin and web knowledge.Problem: It's extremely difficult to get a stranger to the field to understand what this job is all about.Between questions like "what's a web host?" to "but what do you actually do?", there [...].
Chimeras of today and tomorrow
It would be unbearable to live if we were incapable of accepting our world as it is, i.e. with ugly aspects that can quickly overtake its beauty, but it's not forbidden to dare to think of a profoundly better world, a utopian world that would be a pleasure to behold. Here, I dare to [...]
From drums to mix: Elsia's "Liberty" track
My greatest musical collaboration to date: Starting from 0 by confronting different personalities and musical universes, with the aim of producing an exceptional Soul track! Around August/September 2017 (Already!? It goes by fast!), while I was sharing an evening with Ollivier Roy (author/composer/performer) and other fellow musicians, [...]
Complete EP production: Ollivier Roy - Des peurs et des envies (Fears and desires)
From drumming to recording to mastering, this is how the desire to self-produce this EP, a milestone in my life as a musician/sound engineer, came about. As usual, there's nothing better to get you in the mood than to listen! Ollivier Roy - Des Peurs et des Envies - EP 2017 The story Fête de la musique [...]
Mixing & Mastering of Wooden, a band that really packs a punch
An atypical process, a nice result! At the beginning of May, I finished mixing/mastering the EP by Wooden, a promising Parisian band! The opportunity to share this experience with you! After seeing the band live in Paris at the OPA, I was hooked by their fresh, natural and original rock. The band is made up of 5 musicians, [...]
Editing - Mixing - Dressing - Mémoires du Futur
Over the course of a year, I edited several videos for the APJRC (Association Parcs et Jardins en région Centre-Val de Loire) as part of the Mémoires du Futur project. "Mémoires du Futur" is an audiovisual project developed by the APJRC, which began in September 2010 and aims to draw up a "living" inventory of the state of creation in [...].
Feedback on my training at SAE Institute Paris
The SAE Institute, School of Audio Engineering is a multimedia school present in many capitals around the world and known primarily for its sound engineer training. Having completed my Audio Engineer Diploma at SAE Paris, I'd like to share my experience with you, which may be of particular interest to those [...].
Mastering - 4 Spoken Hopes tracks
Spoken Hopes is an independent alternative rock band, orchestrated by Arthur Belhomme (guitar/vocals), and Manon Laterza (vocals/guitar), recently joined by (in order) myself (drums), and Théo Dufils (bass). Although the 4 tracks I've mastered are only an EP (a very clean one, that said), this article is intended to show how I operate in mastering and to [...]
Short film post-production: Pépite
Pépite is a very short film made in late 2013 by sisters Alexandra and Natacha Rougier, aka Scarlett Sisters. As is often the case, the original sound wasn't usable, which made it a very interesting sound effects exercise, since 100% of the sound in this video is post-produced. We went out to record train noises equipped with a [...].
Jazz -Recording/Mixing/Mastering Siks Haedo
Siks Haedo is a band orchestrated by composer and guitarist Diego Lipnizky, ranging from Jazz to Classical to African music. I was lucky enough to record them at SAE in the studio featuring a Neve VR Legend in 2014. We should have recorded one or two tracks and mixed them [...].
Gamer community mesnie.org - First website
UPDATE 2016 - This community is now called TeraGeek community. Born in March 2014, the Mesnie community, which now boasts over 100K unique visitors in the last 10 months, has a rich history that I'm going to tell you about. It's notably thanks to it that I've come to learn Linux systems, create websites [...]
