Congratulations to all at The Crow Hill Company!
The website is looking swanky, and I’m looking forward to what Season 2 brings!
Love and best wishes to you all moving forward!
KG70
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Thanks so much KG, it’s been uite a journey to get here but the very bare-bones of our ambitions the “MVP” as we call it is now up. Let us know what you think in particular the resources section which is where I will be spending a lot of my personal man-hours on moving forward. We have an amazing team and you will see the site become the central hub we feed all of our efforts into. So the complexion of the YouTube channel is going to change also.
What kind of stuff would you like to see more of, what would be useful?
We’re going to focus YouTube onto better-made videos that tear down curtains, gates, fears and misconceptions about music tech. I think we will be getting out of the box more with stuff about engineering, synthesis, sampling. A combination of historical context, more practical demonstrations, but also supporting materials to work with. I think when the youtube channel becomes a bit of a marketing platform it kind of kills the vibe. So even stuff about new stuff we make will be less detailed walkthroughs and more about why we made stuff, how we made it but also its practical uses. We may need to do the detailed walkthroughs but i have plans on turning our second ‘clips’ channel into a Criow Hill 2 channel with deeper long-form that can be embedded in the site.
One area I have struggled with is the fact that many people like, and I like making run and gun videos, monologues etc. We plan to still do this although feel it can often drag the production values of the channel down so as part of the spirit of the podcast. Its more zoo like qualities. Stuff like monolgues are gonna be filmed, even done live as part of the prologue or discussion points for the podcast. We think this will protect the quality we’re achieving on YouTube without us compromising where we’re hoping on taking it.
anyway… bit of a brain splurge this morning. I’m gonna spend the day getting a few more posts up. cleaning up some of the ones that are already there and snagging the site so our engineers can get to work on making it what we dream it to be.
let us know what you think of the new vaults desing… and make sure you’re on the mailing list… there’s something mind blowing gonna happen when we “hard launch” the site.
c. x
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Hi Christian,
If the bare bones is the bench mark then I can’t wait for the meat
(or TVP for the veggies)!
I just wanted to congratulate you all really before the scrutiny unfolds; no doubt!
And with that it begins; at first glance, and being borderline dyslexic with
Irlen Eye Syndrome, I struggle with black text on a white background; therefore the account page is a little challenging; a dark mode would be fantastic!
Also, large bodies of text would be great broken into more digestible paragraphs on a coloured background; a kin to your Journal content, as its not the text first noticed for me, its the spaces between; trippy!
Being visually orientated in my learning, I love the hand drawn icons for the Resources, Vaults and Tools sections. Instinctively I click the icons to navigate, could the links be added? And the text more justified to the icon?
Speaking of Vaults, having had a quick gander, for me the feel is so much more instinctive and as too the aesthetic; nicely done!
You speak of the walkthrough videos; could these not preside amongst the Resources section within a sub-section? I do love those faces you adorn whilst in the zone!
Please keep the monologue video’s coming! For me, and dare I say for many,
the inspiration, passion, love, angst, F’ing and Jeff’ing, really connects with the broader aspects of Crow Hill and humanises its broader agenda.
After all, you are what we love about Crow Hill and that love is now growing to the family that is The Crow Hill Company!
Big love to all and stay tuneful!
KG70
Just to add, I’m not seeing an obvious link for the mailing list?
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The new site looks fantastic Christian. Looking forward to another stroll up the hill tomorrow!
Like the comics of my youth would describe action:
BAM!
BOOM!
POW!
ZOOM!
(and so forth)
It’s splendid!
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I love that as I read that I can hear your brilliant voice say it 
Smashing new site everyone!
Ros, I’m sending this accolade to my daughters…OH WAIT! They aren’t in their teens anymore…(60 and 56 now) 
…but seriously…thanks for being so generous with your comment…
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Congratulations on the start of a new adventure, CH Team! I love the direction so far, really excited to see the new resources and sounds that you pull from the mist.
Hi Christian, the website is cool, fresh and looks artistically modern. It ergonomically seems easy to use. There is a lot of investigation for me to do on this website with a great assortment of interesting topics that I have briefly looked at. The lingering suspense seems to me to be well worth the wait. Anyway, stay focused and keep moving forward because you are all special creatives. Oh, bye the way let’s see some of your Crow Hill backroom staff do some video podcast interviews that they can share on your website. Maybe they can explain their path from where their musical abilities first began to how and why they later joined The Crow Hill Company. And let’s see some video visuals on how the Crow Hill Company as a business really ticks on a daily basis. Just continue to think outside of the box and stay laser focused and you will be alright. You’ve built an amazing company in the past with Spitfire and I believe you will do it again with The Crow Hill Company. Anyway all the best for the future buddy and please thank your team for everything that you have all done in the past. May be introduce them on your weekly Lord Of The Rings Podcasts. Keep up the good work and I’m already thinking about what season three may bring if there is to be a season three in the future.
Looks grand👍 the Vaults looking even better, I’m wondering what the “twist” is now, do the linked cables give a clue? I can’t quite visualise what, if anything, that might mean…
The charity donation for the dropped out vaults sounds like a grand idea, is that for a charity you’ve mentioned before? I forget the details.
Looks tidy yet full of character, the resources page is also promising. I like the synthesis manual, will be a great read.
Interested to know what the engineering book will be (I assume that is waiting for the hard release as I can’t click it currently)
All in all really good. And the notion of the “All list” is also great, and that you have things like network profiles and an archive of the network dispatches which give very generous potential exposure to people who are contributing at all levels.
Crow Hill really puts its money where its mouth is. Well done! 
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The site redesign is beautiful. The design is so smooth - if I could touch it it would be a glossy magazine cover! Excellent work Crow Hill Team!
The resources section is amazing- thank you so much for making so much knowledge available. I know there’s loads of stuff I don’t know yet, which can be really intimidating - but this resource section takes that sense of overwhelm away. 
Happy to help with any beta or regression testing of the site - I’ve done loads of similar work in current and previous job roles. Just let me know!
Congratulations on your new website Christian. Three suggestions.
1: Top menu
The scanned drawings clearly have been reduced in size so much they become too flimsy. They are too small to appear crisp and clear here. So a) keep the text links and drop the drawings, or b) the drawings have to be processed to ensure an approximately consistent line weight in reduced sizes.
2: Typographic quotes
Use typographic quotes instead of straight ones using the option key [⌥] and/or shift-option key [⇧⌥] on a Mac. So We're back → We’re back. A right single quote is used here, which is &rsquo in HTML.
3: Tracking capitals
Capital letterforms in small sizes always require some extra ‘personal space’ for optimum readability. When using all-capital composition, make sure to add a little bit of tracking in order to provide some air between the letters (CSS property letter-spacing, values in pixels). Larger display sizes on the contrary require some negative tracking but that’s OK here. The overall spacing in this typeface is top notch. This Nudica family is a great choice by the way. Ismael and Raúl (Atipo Foundry) have done a great job here.
Keep up the good work, cheerio!
𝔖𝔱𝔢𝔭𝔥
The new website has a lot to dig into and I like the clean layout of the pages. I did notice a few quick fixes needed and have listed them here:
This link on the below page to download the book creates a 404 error – page not found.
This is the link HERE.
These are excerpts from the campaign book. Download the full version [ HERE.] – (https://web.thecrowhillcompany.com/tg-storm-cello/TinaStormCello_pdf_png_version.pdf)
The view link on this page:
shows the modular .pdf for the download and not the orchestral-cheat-sheet
Bottom of this page with the 3-view screen the JavaScript is not locating the 3 images
I’ll add them in this thread as I come across them.
All & all great job and a lot to read about!
Mark
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