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Posted: Fri Mar 07, 2008 4:43 pm
by kassonica
#39
After spending your weekend wiring the patchbay putting it the rack and making sure it works the 1st time you use it one of the connections is faulty.
#40 The worse the tunes a client has the more time they will want to spend on them.
#41 Being caught posting to this forum while the singer is tracking
Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2008 1:28 pm
by aitikin
kassonica wrote:#41 Being caught posting to this forum while the singer is tracking
Priceless.
Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2008 7:18 pm
by Phil O
aitikin wrote:kassonica wrote:#41 Being caught posting to this forum while the singer is tracking
Priceless.
I've never been caught (knock on wood).
Phil
Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 5:34 pm
by kassonica
Funny thing was they didn't seem to mind.
BUt yea i've been very subtle ever since and have stopped myself opening the browser when the going gets tiresome or boring.
It seems vocals has this effect on me
Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 5:40 pm
by bOing
kassonica wrote:Funny thing was they didn't seem to mind.
BUt yea i've been very subtle ever since and have stopped myself opening the browser when the going gets tiresome or boring.
It seems vocals has this effect on me
That vamp in "Kumbaya" always made me hit the snooze button.
Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 6:24 pm
by kassonica
It always made me reach for camino and this forum.
Drives me insane that song.
Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 1:20 pm
by therealbigd
*42: the guitar is NEVER loud enough (unless the band are at home)
*43: once you've added "just a bit more treble", you will decide it needs "just a bit more bass", and then of course, to even it out, it needs a bit more mids. repeat until all knobs on 11.
*44: if a good looking young lady is in your studio all day, and you're awfully nice to her, autotune her and tell her "its a special FX unit you can only use with the best vocalists", give her an hour of overtime and say its complimentry, etc etc... she will always be picked up and taken home by her absolute worm of a boyfriend.
Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 7:40 pm
by kassonica
herealbigd wrote:
Just remember kiddies, you can't polish a turd
Well you can, but you just make a smaller one.
Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2008 2:57 pm
by bOing
therealbigd wrote: *44: if a good looking young lady is in your studio all day, and you're awfully nice to her, autotune her and tell her "its a special FX unit you can only use with the best vocalists", give her an hour of overtime and say its complimentry, etc etc... she will always be picked up and taken home by her absolute worm of a boyfriend.
44b: If a good looking young lady works at the studio, plan on booking another session.
Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2008 3:02 pm
by bOing
kassonica wrote:herealbigd wrote:
Just remember kiddies, you can't polish a turd
Well you can, but you just make a smaller one.
Actually, if you put it in the freezer first, you can even sand it. Eventually that turd will look so good that someone's bound to ask "How much?"
[Why is he calling us kiddies? Must be a teacher of sorts...]
Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2008 6:09 pm
by bongo_x
denne wrote:- mixing with a drummer, kick is never present enough, even when soloed.
- during mix, the relationships temperature between engineer and drummer drops to unexplored depth.
Mistake no.1- mixing with drummer. Unless the drummer sings and writes the songs, he's gonna be last on the "people I'm trying to please" list. And the answer to "the kick isn't present enough" is "yes it is".
Seriously though, why do drummers think that people are listening to the kick drum? When's the last time you heard someone say "I love the kick on that song"? Most of my friends couldn't pick the kick out of a song for a million bucks.
bb
Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2008 6:57 pm
by Spikey Horse
bongo_x wrote:denne wrote:- mixing with a drummer, kick is never present enough, even when soloed.
- during mix, the relationships temperature between engineer and drummer drops to unexplored depth.
Mistake no.1- mixing with drummer. Unless the drummer sings and writes the songs, he's gonna be last on the "people I'm trying to please" list. And the answer to "the kick isn't present enough" is "yes it is".
Seriously though, why do drummers think that people are listening to the kick drum? When's the last time you heard someone say "I love the kick on that song"? Most of my friends couldn't pick the kick out of a song for a million bucks.
bb
I bought DP and a studio just so I could mix my own kick. That was the main reason. I trust no one. I have in the past nudged my kick track up when no one was looking. Now I am in control. I sometimes play my drum parts with no kick, but only so I can bring it in again. This pleases me immensely, especially if I am playing through a big PA.
Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2008 7:07 pm
by kassonica
Why i've even played in band where the drummer had a double four way system 2000 watts just for the kick and still complained it wasn't loud enough.
The Beatles would of had 100 # ones if only they'd mixed the kick louder.
Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2008 12:06 am
by bongo_x
Spikey Horse wrote:bongo_x wrote:denne wrote:- mixing with a drummer, kick is never present enough, even when soloed.
- during mix, the relationships temperature between engineer and drummer drops to unexplored depth.
Mistake no.1- mixing with drummer. Unless the drummer sings and writes the songs, he's gonna be last on the "people I'm trying to please" list. And the answer to "the kick isn't present enough" is "yes it is".
Seriously though, why do drummers think that people are listening to the kick drum? When's the last time you heard someone say "I love the kick on that song"? Most of my friends couldn't pick the kick out of a song for a million bucks.
bb
I bought DP and a studio just so I could mix my own kick. That was the main reason. I trust no one. I have in the past nudged my kick track up when no one was looking. Now I am in control. I sometimes play my drum parts with no kick, but only so I can bring it in again. This pleases me immensely, especially if I am playing through a big PA.
At live shows, do the sound check barely hitting the kick with a felt beater so you can switch it to a hard beater and stomp on it once you start playing. Yeah. That'll learn 'em. They just don't know who they're messing with.
bb
Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2008 12:17 am
by bongo_x
kassonica wrote:The Beatles would of had 100 # ones if only they'd mixed the kick louder.
If only they had been smarter back then. But people were dumb back in those days, and everything was black and white anyways, so who cares.
People want, no, NEED to hear every super special nuance of every performance by every musician. All that melody and rhythm and stuff is just there to frame the awesome chops of the musicians, ESPECIALLY the kick drum. Who wants to hear some dude singing about whatever if you can't hear the drummers mad kick skillz?
bb