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Mixerman Diaries: awesome read. http://www.prosoundweb.co...ek1/mm.php
If you've got the time and EVER think you'll set foot in a real recording studio, ever, EVER, go give this a gander. A producer/engineer documents the daily goings on of a soon-to-be flavor-of-the-moment band in the studio. It LOOKS to be awesome. i'm still just on the first day, but it looks good n juicy. Yamomma, you'd love this crap. The Last Otan Track: www.funkmusician.com/what.mp3 | |
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"Ya see, we're not interested in what you know...but what you are willing to learn. C'mon y'all." | |
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Enjoying this. Thanks O | |
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I remember crackin up on this, good stuff. Did he ever finish it? I'll have to check. | |
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Oh man...
I just got up to week 3. I gotta get some work done. I'll have to get back at this tonight. Great read. This guy cracked me up! One of these days, I'll have to write down some stories too. Like about this guy who was trying to be a producer and sent in some local "street talent". After every session, I would go to the bathroom to find that the soap was missing, toothpaste, deodorant, mouthwash, colonge, you name it. One week I decided to find out just who was taking this stuf, so I hid it all. You see one Christmas, I got a gift bag with all these carry on travel items like the ones listed above. I decided to put them in the studio bathroom as you can spend many a long day there and those items can be useful. Several days later, it was time for our session with one of "the producer's" picks. This guy comes out of the bathroom demanding to know where his stuff was. He actually thought that all those items belonged to him and was part of the recording session. Sure, we let people take bottled water and sodas, but come on now. Not to mention, everytime he came in to record, he brought 6-8 other people with him and called them "his ride". Cause he ain't got no car. But 3 car loads of people? There was usually 2 or 3 rather large women. They were the one's who actually owned the cars they came in. All the guys didn't have a car. Frickin comedy. I loved this guy cause he wore this member's only jacket (remeber those) JUST AS PROUD as he did the year he went to jail when they were still in style. I guess he wasn't out that long before he met "the producer". OH AND THE "PRODUCER"! This guy was funny. He paid his tab... eventually. But he always paid in one dollar bills. Seriously. He would come over with a bag full of one dollar bills, a few fives, and even lunch bags of coins. Come to find out, he worked at the airport and that was his tip money. He said that's how he kept his wife from finding out about his little "side project". So what he was doing was handing out demos to people in the industry that he knew were flying in and out of West Palm Beach as he was the guy checking in their luggage! I wonder what ever happend to that guy? There are actually a few recordings from this one guy sent in from him that could REALLY sing and wrote all his own songs. He would hum the melody to Frank and Frank would lay down the groove and other instruments. The only problem I had with him was that HE DIDN'T HAVE A CAR EITHER. He was a nice guy and seemed so ambitious over his music, that I usually drove him home. But at two in the morning going into crackville, USA was kinda scary. That didn't last too long. All Rights Reserved. |
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OH MAN!
You'll pee your pants on week 3, day 2: http://www.prosoundweb.co...3/mm_2.php All Rights Reserved. |
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that is some funny stuff. | |
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A BEAUTIFUL PASSAGE:
“Modern” can be very elusive as time marches forward, and if you’re not up on the latest music, modern can very easily pass you by. AC30 amps have a sound that one might call classic, but a definitive classic sound scares the hell out of record companies, and when they listen to classic, they inevitably think something’s wrong with the production. The real bitch is that sometimes classic is modern, but you just have to keep up with the times to know when that is, and then take advantage of that window of opportunity to be both classic and modern simultaneously. Regardless of all that, what the record companies REALLY want is “now,” because “now” is something that record companies understand.
Unfortunately for everyone involved, by the time a record comes out, “now” was “yesterday” and the record is in the shitter for not being modern enough, even if it somehow happens to be classic. Occasionally, a new modern sound is born from some innovative band, and every major label in existence then scrambles to sign anything and everything that sounds remotely similar to that band. Then producers, wanting to remain modern themselves, will try to make records with the similar bands, so that they can be a part of what’s “hot.” Of course, none of it really matters, because no matter what, any sound that happens to become “hot”, “now” or whatever, can be directly attributed to the Beatles. The Beatles are as classic as they come, and the Beatles used VOX AC30 amplifiers on their recordings. So, why the hell classic scares a record company is beyond me, since without the Beatles, we’d be fucked. There’s going to be a quiz on this later, so try to keep up. The Last Otan Track: www.funkmusician.com/what.mp3 | |
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Last night, I got up to week 4, day 2.
This is like a musician's novel or something. I haven't been that entertained in a long, long time. I couldn't help but think of your articles on your own site(s), Beau with a lot of shared wit. This guy really has a gift to jot down all that information and details on a daily basis. The "Fast Fingaz" character is killing my side. I can SO visualize every word he's saying. I didn't notice he had little footnotes on all that studio termanology until week 3. I thought they were typos with the numbers after certain words until I noticed that they were in syquential order. "Dumb Ass". (well I am a drummer) All Rights Reserved. |
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