What cha workin' on?

[buzzsmith]

Enjoying my brief (6 months) membership with the forum, learning a lot and hopefully contributing useful information when I have a possible answer!

I've noticed that It appears that there's a broad spectrum of Unicornation members involved in all kinds of musical/audio work but, just out of curiosity, specifically what are some examples of what you're working on now or recently?

It might give other members ideas for perhaps more income streams.

In other words, what are the Project Studios... projects!?

For me...

1. Recent :60 adaptation of a PD classical piece with 12 voice choir for a radio commercial for an energy company.

2. Create and arrange instrumental tracks from "Jekyl and Hyde" for local performer.

3. More background tracks for local television talent contest.

4. Digital editing of exisiting pop songs for drill team competition. Tracks can't be longer than 2:10 or so, and any "offensive" lyrics must be removed.

5. 3 bg trax for Miss Texas competition.

6. Pre-production for arranging, producing and recording a 2nd CD for a local artist. This will be primarily a live session.

7. Songwriter demos (from raw to presentation quality)

8. Lead sheet transcriptions for copyright purposes.

9. Childrens TV show original music and dialog/vocal recording and editing.

10. Sequencing and recording songs for a local artist to be taken to Nashville as PT importable SDII files for additional players and mixing.

Just a few examples...looking forward to seeing other users DP activities!

=bz=

[Shooshie]

Not working on music at the moment. I'm working on piecing together some tapes of interviews with a pilot who was the best friend of Wiley Post, the aviator. He's explaining how Wiley prepared for his round-the-world record flight in about 1932, as well as lots of old pilot wisdom about how to survive in thunderstorms, ice, and how lightning affects planes. Interesting interviews. There will be a play written from these interviews, as I understand it, and I'm putting them on CD with detailed indexing. The tapes are cassettes, poorly recorded, and I'm taking out the noise, adding harmonics, making them more listenable and understandable so that the actor will be able to match the pilot's voice.

And that's whazzup at Studio Hushihomma.

Shooshie

[JackMaverik]

Well. I wound up building a float room in my garage, and we're using that as a pretty bad ass drum room/rehearsal space.

We got this house and we've turned it into a band house. So it's me and 2 other band mates that live here. If anyone remembers the band, The Refreshments (they wrote the King of the Hill theme song, and had some other hits), their lead guitarist (Brian Blush) is my band's new lead guitarist.

Anyway, I assed my way into a shitload of gear for super cheap, probably over 8 grand worth of gear (if I bought it new) for 2 grand, and the guy lets me pay monthly on it.

So this little home studio is pretty much band only. So lots of songwriting demos and some final record tracks too.

My other studio (the one I don't own, but the one I run) is actually broadcasting a radio station right now. It's moving into a new location (2 doors down) soon, and Im looking forward to that. Down there I've been doing band demos for bands in town, voice over stuff, we record some radio shows down there too.

Pretty basic stuff really. Mostly I just go into the iso-booth, crank up the preamp on my Neumann, throw headphones on myself and one of my girlfriends and make out in there. Trust me, it's pretty hot. You can hear every little breathe and movement of the tongue when that Nuemann is cranked. I dig it.

[FM]

i'm writting the score for an off-off broadway play.

i will post a couple of samples on my website in a couple of days, i'll come back here and let you guys know when i do... if you're in the mood for some "workshop theater" music.

peace!

FM

FM has sworn revenge against the giant leopard shark.

[wonder]

im eating meatballs

[aaronlyon]

I've been recording my Persian client in my home studio over the last six months. We have four songs in the can, and one more to go. All are recorded into DP4 and mixed in-the-box. You can hear them at the web site http://mahanmusic.com/.

I also do voiceover work for HP, WebEx, radio commercials, etc.

I've been a graphic and website designer for 13 years. It's great to have a computer that readily handles all these tasks well. I ride my Mac hard. OS X is so much better then OS 9. Now if they'll just optimize the damn code...it could be SO much quicker. Bastards.

-aaron

[fai31188]

Nothing!! I am working on absolutely nothing, and I'm loving it.

Our band just finished tracking, mixing and mastering our first CD (instrumental fusion), and I am taking a burnout break!!! Much needed, IMO.

I am really playing around, noodling and having a good time of it... That's about it...

Cheers!!

aL

[iPerformer]

I just finished my first CD album as soloist. It is based on Afro-Andian ( from Los Andes) music styles and I recorded the whole project on DP, mixed and mastering at home with DP and 2408.
I'm very happy with it and I'll appreciate some critics about it. The album is called "Los Andes Jazz Project" and featuring Jerry Gonzalez ( one of the most famous latin Jazz trupet player). This is the link to listen to the songs:
http://www.yayomorales.com/andes_en.html

Thanks.

[dwood]

I just finished overdubbing and mixing a full length CD from my brothers band Ted Eddison. You can hear tracks at their site
http://tededdison.com/

[RainMan034]

1) Finished composing music for a play called Fuddy Meers which I received an award from the Kennedy Center Theater Committee. This was my first project and has opened the doors for other really cool opportunities.

2) Working on music for a online video game called, Heroes of Allacrost which is in the beta stages of development.

www.allacrost.org

3) Writing music for a short animated film that will be premiered at my college, all the ideas involved were conceptually mine.

4) Writing music for a trio for Violin, flute and piano.

5) Writing a vocal piece involving classical/ R and B/ HipHop and techno.

[chrispick]

My project studio is sort of a moonlight gig. So, work there is intermittent.

Last official paid job: I composed, played and mixed an NBA playoff theme for the Washington Wizards, all on DP. Bombastic? Testosterone-flavored? You know it, baby!

That was a month ago.

Spec-ed an NYC public outreach video thereafter with some cool tracks. Didn't pan exactly, but still got thrown a token bone.

Right now I'm waiting on a few jobs in the pipelines and wrangling some original tunes. And I bought a new mic (a Rode NTK) and a new VI (USB Charlie). Diggin' them.

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[buzzsmith]

Thanks for everyone's input and bump!

=bz=

[Studio615]

I have a project studio. I mainly use my mac and DP to write and record ideas and demos of my own music. I record my full band's every rehearsal into dp, and although it might be overkill, I have yet to find a daw that is as reliable and stable as DP on the mac platform. We have recorded and tracked demos of our music, but we then out-source the mixing and mastering. I will also be using DP to record our live performances, once we get out playing. I have recorded a few demos for other bands, but nothing huge. Right now I am back into songwriting mode, I'm pumping out about a song a day. Really like this DAW.

[Don T]

Hello:
I am working on the music score for a movie (25 songs). It's all just for the pick up, not in production yet. Working on tracks for the Bull Dozer's second CD. There are two bands waiting for time to book. I am working on the curriculi support for my recording classes at the community college. Tracking a song demo. I've also been working on camcorder to DVD "vacation" projects. Editing the footage and audio, adding score where needed. I am consulting on the acoustic design of two project studios here in town. Lastly, the college is building a new facility that I have to wire and debug the analog and DAW workstations as well as finish off the acoustics. 7 new G5's, Tiger and DP 4.5.??? No summer vacation for me this year.

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[moonwalker]

Working on an album project, Writing and producing for female pop singer artist.Our backing is Don Powell, former producer of the Jets, former manager of Stevie Wonder and David Bowie.