| Studio visit last night.... [message #70859] |
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brandon[2]
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Registered: June 2006
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I got the opportunity to go to a local studio that is pretty well known.
Some big acts are associated with this place and I was expecting quite a
show.
I expected something fancy, but it was just the opposite.
It was very small, cluttered and disorganized.
They had a lot of noisy channels on there board that they had to keep rerouting
because it was screwing up the takes.
Luckily the takes that got screwed were just for scratch instruments. There
didn't seem to be any concern for the "sound" or "tone". It was just set
the levels and go. The band were friends of mine and I was there to observe.
I was also acting as the guitar tech. I kept my mouth shut and just watched
never revealing that I was really there to see if I could learn something.
The band is a latin band and consists of two acoustic/electric guitars, electric
bass, hand percussion and vocals. They mic'd the congas etc.. with seinhiser
spots and two KM64's for OH's. They sounded good. He was compressing them
to track I think. I don't know what type of comp he was using though. They
were recording to ProTools system. All in all I was not impressed with what
I heard or saw. We will see what tonite brings. I don't think I was disappointed
in the sound because of Protools I think it was the lack of effort spent
upfront getting the right sound. Ofcourse they do this every day and I hardly
do it at all so what do I know. Anyway..... We tracked the hand percussion
last night and are going to do the bass and guitars tonite. They were recording
without a click. So it should be interesting to see them try to play along
with a rollercoaster of congas. Ok later...
b
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