Members Instrospection Posted January 31, 2009 Members Share Posted January 31, 2009 I've been finishing off a mellower album that is based around lots of effects, delays, reverbs. Sort of Pink Floyd-ish at times. Most of the vocals are three/ four part harmony, and most of the tracks have 20-30 overdubs, so it's pretty built up. I've mixed some songs three times, just to get it perfect. It's amazing what you hear when you come back to it a day or two later.....the first impression of it when you haven't been mixing it for awhile that day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil O'Keefe Posted January 31, 2009 Share Posted January 31, 2009 Headed up to Westlake today to work on some mixes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Tim Mayock Posted January 31, 2009 Members Share Posted January 31, 2009 I recorded a trio of High school kids that rocked. I really like recording kids for the 1st time. I'd like to think I am very good at that. I recently set up 3 fairly diverse monitor systems It should make it easier to mix. I have a fair amount of work which is great since i was laid off from my part time/half my income morning gig. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members fuzzball Posted February 2, 2009 Members Share Posted February 2, 2009 I have some more college court reporting practice CD's to do. Friday I recorded some guitar tracks for my band. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members fuzzball Posted February 3, 2009 Members Share Posted February 3, 2009 I forgot, last Friday I was reamping a track through a 5150 and I kept getting loud feedback when I turned the amp on....after wasting 15 min looking over my signal chain and other crap I realized that I bumped the volume on the amp and that is why I was getting the noise........I felt like a dope. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members fuzzball Posted February 4, 2009 Members Share Posted February 4, 2009 Purchased a PRS. Considering purchasing another compressor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members albiedamned Posted February 4, 2009 Members Share Posted February 4, 2009 Which PRS? I love my SE Singlecut, and it's only their "budget" line. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Lee Knight Posted February 5, 2009 Moderators Share Posted February 5, 2009 Tonight I track guitars. We're replacing the rhythm parts for 4 or 5 tunes that weren't played up to snuff on the basic sessions. Mostly it'll be a very nice Tele > Fulltone OCD > Blackheart 5 watt > Avatar with 1 V30 > Fathead > API > PT. Might swap out to an old Les Paul for doulbes or my Yammy with P90s. Maybe a 414 in omni out in the room somewhere. That's the plan until it all changes. Fun, I love this stuff. Oh yeah, I got to remind him to bring his old Gibson amp too. Noisy as hell but... you know. Cool... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members MrJoshua Posted February 5, 2009 Members Share Posted February 5, 2009 Looks like a nice signal chain for guitar. How do you like API preamps on guitar? I find they're pretty good for lead stuff since they seem to lend kind of an aggressive sound, but I usually prefer my Brick or Great River preamps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Lee Knight Posted February 5, 2009 Moderators Share Posted February 5, 2009 I love the API on everything! But yeah, it's a forward kind of sound. That Fathead sounds really good into it. And with a Tele, the ribbon makes sense, on paper at least. And the 2:1 transformer switch really adds a creamyness to guitar when appropriate. No, the API rocks for everything. If I have a question at all about it, it would be for very hi fi vocals. Not really its forte. But I don't do that kind of slick R&B sound anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members fuzzball Posted February 5, 2009 Members Share Posted February 5, 2009 SE custom 22 with trem. Nothing to special, but I got a deal that I could not refuse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members MrJoshua Posted February 5, 2009 Members Share Posted February 5, 2009 Last night I put in a new cable from the patchbay to one of the inputs on my Apogee Rosetta 200. It's been acting funny lately - it'll be going along just fine, then suddenly the signal strength will drop way down, then it'll come back strong again. I think it's a faulty cable. I'm going to track some drums tonight, so we'll see how it acts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members fuzzball Posted February 5, 2009 Members Share Posted February 5, 2009 You might be getting power drop outs too. Do you have a good power conditioner? With battery backup? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members MrJoshua Posted February 5, 2009 Members Share Posted February 5, 2009 You might be getting power drop outs too. Do you have a good power conditioner? With battery backup? No battery backup, but it isn't the power. I do have it on a conditioner, but only because they make handy rackmount power strips. If it was the power it would show up in other ways. To start, the UPS on my studio computer would be kicking on, and it isn't. I'm pretty sure it's an intermittent cable fault. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members fuzzball Posted February 5, 2009 Members Share Posted February 5, 2009 I see, I was just checking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members MrJoshua Posted February 5, 2009 Members Share Posted February 5, 2009 I see, I was just checking.It's cool. I'm always up for troubleshooting tips, it's just that in this particular circumstance I've already ruled that one out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Lee Knight Posted February 6, 2009 Moderators Share Posted February 6, 2009 The guitar tracking went great. What a tone! I ended up with the CAD Trion 8000 in the other room instead of the 414. Nice. I just rolled off the highs off around 6k and panned opposite the close mic. This is going to work out better than double tracking for this project I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members UstadKhanAli Posted February 6, 2009 Members Share Posted February 6, 2009 I've done nothing but watch Lakers games and socialize this week so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members fuzzball Posted February 6, 2009 Members Share Posted February 6, 2009 I need to get back on my solo CD...it has been months. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members IceBryce Posted February 7, 2009 Members Share Posted February 7, 2009 i have begun a mixtape for a my brothers rap/pop group. I have done some remixing to popular songs and its all going well. I hope to get the free record out this month. I wonder what if any copywrite laws i am crossing. I guess if I sell it then I have to worry, news to come. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Lee Knight Posted February 7, 2009 Moderators Share Posted February 7, 2009 Final mix session with No Reply at 12... now, he's late. Then vocals for The Saltlickers at 5. This guy's going to be fun... and though I don't drink anymore I suspect he will be racking up the empties. We'll see how this fare for getting things done. I'll let you know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members fuzzball Posted February 9, 2009 Members Share Posted February 9, 2009 I try not to let clients hit the sauce too much. I sometimes let them the first time then show them how little the did compared to sober.....works sometimes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members MrJoshua Posted February 9, 2009 Members Share Posted February 9, 2009 I spent the last couple of evenings finishing up my latest (horribly bad) demo of one of my tunes to share with the band. Winning Record Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Lee Knight Posted February 9, 2009 Moderators Share Posted February 9, 2009 No Reply mixing finish up took 2 full days. Came out great. Saltlicker singer resheduled. Tonight I'll comp the 2 last Salty tunes and tomorrow we'll finish tracking rhythm guitars. Singer this weekend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members KillerV Posted February 9, 2009 Members Share Posted February 9, 2009 I finished up (or thought I did) some mixes for a band in the middle of last week and sent them the mixes to let me know what they think. I didn't hear from them again and phoned them last night to basically tell them I'll post them their masters, only to hear that they've got a couple of things they want changed. I'm fine with changing something here and there, but would've liked it if they wouldv'e opened their mouths a little earlier. I'm starting work on other projects. Anyway, I just asked that they send me an e-mail with the things they want changed. Now this is the crappy part: Almost everything is a case of the frontman/lead guitarist wanting to be louder. The other things are parts that they/he either now want completely removed from the mixes completely or edited in a different way - all of which were agreed upon before they left the studio! This pisses me off quite a bit because it changes stuff in the mixes and costs me extra time and effort. If they didn't want certain parts, I feel that they should've decided on that before I started mixing. I gave them a disc with rough mixes on the day they left. I also did a deal for them on a per-song basis, so on this particular deal it isn't even like I can really charge them more for my extra time without it turning at least a little sour. Sorry to be all negative. Just wanted to blow off some steam. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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