Secret Scion

12 hours ago, daddymack said:

What 'creative part'?

The creative part was made by musicians...in bands, that survived, at least long enough to make a good recordings....

For a DJ, the creative part is putting on the show and how they use the music created by someone else to help the audience have a good time. It's the same thing as movies using pop songs in the sound track to set the mood in the movie. It is creative for a good interior decorator to use furniture and rugs designed by someone else to make an interior space be amazing. 

That's all recorded music is to a DJ. It's the raw material from which they fashion a show. A good DJ uses this raw material well, and a guy that "plays music" just plays music.

On 8/18/2018 at 8:39 AM, OnKeyboards said:

Hi Guys,

 

I play in a band where there is no common language that everybody understand.

I proposed that I will setup a home studio, using only hardware that we all already own.

 

I invested several months reading all the user manuals, getting info (which mics, headphone amps, audio interfaces, mixers).

Then I came up with a plan how to connect it all to be able to record 20 tracks to a PC in parallel.

Then I started recording trial takes with other band members and it all went just fine.

 

Now comes the singer and says, I know nothing about all this technical stuff.

Therefore I appoint a friend of mine who tells me he's an expert sound engineer, and he will manage you and everybody else on my behalf.

 

I've set up a WhatsApp group and since June I'm writing there what are we planning, how we will connect the equipment etc.

To date, the guy hasn't written a single word, even though he's reading it all.

Also when I address him in person, he is silent and consistently keeps ignoring me.

 

Recently the singer told me "the guy said we are all set up and ready to go".

No information is available what is going on and what the guy is planning.

 

Most likely, by the little info I've got, he's planning to use a mixer to put all instruments into one stereo mix and that's it- like in a rehearsal room.

Man, am I frustrated or what?

 

Every attempt to communicate is a failure.

THIS: I explain what's the difference between taking 20 instruments and committing them to a rough mix versus having 20 separate tracks that you can mix later on.

It all falls on deaf ears.

No one has enough language skills to understand that one sentence (where I wrote THIS).

I think it adds insult to injury when the singer says "why do you have to be so bitter about this? Just shut up and play when you're told to".

 

My next step is to explain all this to a guy who can talk to all these guys in their mother tongue.

It that doesn't help, I guess I will leave the band.

 

 

 

i'm thinking of doing DJ stuff after the virus thing. playing in a band would be nice but everyone i know that is in a band always has a hard time keeping it together and they just mainly seem frustrated. and none of them make much money at it but their day job keeps them in money. A DJ doesn't have to work with a bunch of other people to put on a show. Not for the creative part anyway.