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sE Electronic Tube Mic
Click here to read about my first proper microphone! About 10 years ago, I found that I was doing studio work most of the time and no...
Jinx Chin
Apr 10, 20192 min read
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Tribute To My First Microphone
I think it is time for me to wax lyrical a little about this gem of a condenser microphone that I bought way, way back in 1998. At that...
Jinx Chin
Apr 6, 20193 min read
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Jingle To Manhattan (Final Post of a 4-post Series)
If you haven't read Parts 1,2 or 3 of this blog entry: Please click here for Part 1 of this blog post Please click here for Part 2 of...
Jinx Chin
Mar 30, 20192 min read
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Jingle All The Way To Manhattan (Part 3)
If you haven't already read Parts 1 or 2 of this blog entry: Please click here for Part 1 of this blog post Please click here for Part 2...
Jinx Chin
Mar 27, 20192 min read
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Jingle All The Way to Manhattan (Part 2)
Please click here to check out Part 1 of this blog entry! The process of jingle-writing is of course very similar to songwriting...you...
Jinx Chin
Mar 27, 20193 min read
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Jingle All The Way to Manhattan! (Part 1)
Let's rewind about 6 months ago....my lovely wife and I had a hankering for some good ol' fish and chips and some other soul food of the...
Jinx Chin
Mar 27, 20191 min read
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Road Trip #1
One of the good things about being a freelance composer, or being a freelancer in general, is you get quite a lot of freedom to go for a...
Jinx Chin
Feb 3, 20192 min read
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Project Highlights of 2018
Here is a short video of some of the work I did during the past year. I hope to be able to write blog posts for some behind-the-scenes...
Jinx Chin
Jan 14, 20191 min read
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2019! Time For A Road Trip!
Happy New Year! Yeah, it's that time of year again when we take about a couple weeks to get used to the fact that it is 2019 and not...
Jinx Chin
Jan 11, 20191 min read
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Band of Memories
As I continue on this wondrous journey of life, as a chronologically confirmed adult (mentally, the Jury is still out on that one), I...
Jinx Chin
Dec 7, 20182 min read
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Making Your Workspace Comfy
The awesome thing about being a freelance composer is the fact that, for the most part, you get to work out of your own home studio. And...
Jinx Chin
Nov 26, 20182 min read
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Looking After Your Most Important Musical Asset
OK this sounds rather cheesy, but bear with me here. Let's get it out of the way first. Your most important musical asset....is you....
Jinx Chin
Nov 17, 20184 min read
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Keeping The Work Tools In Good Shape
This is a subject that doesn't really rank at all in the list of glamorous aspects of being a composer, but it is rather important, and...
Jinx Chin
Nov 2, 20182 min read
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Visit Western Australia!
I worked on a short web film for Singapore Airlines recently, as part of their Visit Western Australia campaign. It was pretty...
Jinx Chin
Oct 26, 20183 min read
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Gettin' My Sing On
When I'm done with work for the day, sometimes I like to relax by singing my heart away like a smooth and slightly sleazy lounge singer....
Jinx Chin
Oct 19, 20181 min read
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Writing Christmassy Music in October
Seems a little early to be doing music for a season that is still months away, but commercial composers are usually doing seasonal music...
Jinx Chin
Oct 19, 20181 min read
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On The Other Side of The Big Screen
As a media composer, I expect pretty much all my work to be done behind the screen, supporting the visuals as best I can with my music....
Jinx Chin
Oct 16, 20182 min read
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Emergency! My Eve Audio Monitor is Sick!
Just as I was getting settled into working on some new material for upcoming projects, a power surge blew one of my studio monitor...
Jinx Chin
Oct 14, 20181 min read
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Taobao Rush Job!
Some months ago, I got a call from one of the studios I work with regularly and they urgently needed music for an 8 minute web commercial...
Jinx Chin
Oct 13, 20183 min read
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Strange Requests from a Movie Director
In April 2018, I got a call from Addy, a fellow composer who was working on a Vietnamese movie called "100 Ngay Ben Em (100 Days of...
Jinx Chin
Oct 1, 20182 min read
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