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AES 2005 - NYC I'm not going to do a bunch of product reports as I was tied up...
...doing product demos every day of the show. You can get a rundown on the gear here... AES Report from Mix Magazine - http://mixonline.com/aesny/ Mix Magazine also sponsors the TEC Awards (Technical Excellence and Creativity) which I attended... TEC Awards - http://mixfoundation.org/news.html, http://mixonline.com/2005...ds-winners Arif Mardin was inducted into the TEC Awards Hall of Fame. His presentation began with an unannounced performance of Through The Fire by Chaka Khan and the award was presented after an intense speech by none other than his former boss at Atlantic Records, Ahmet Ertegun. How's that for music royalty? If you don't know who these folks are, your homework assignment is to do some research and get edumacated. David Byrne was presented the Les Paul Award (accepted by Laurie Anderson) by Les Paul himself. One very cool thing that I did get to do (by a stroke of luck) was this... 
...35th Anniversary Tribute to Electric Lady Studios - http://www.aes.org/events...cfm?ID=438 The sign is for the public event. The private event (for Lexicon & DigiTech affiliates), which I got to attend, was a bit hipper (swag-wise anyway). I was lucky enough to get a pass from an associate that couldn't attend. The private after-show event required you to have one of these...  
..."groovy tags" to board the bus to the studio. When the bus reached the studio I was a bit confused because I was expecting to see... 
...the familiar studio facade. It seems that it had to be removed because the bums where using it as a place to sleep (among other things). The rest of the merchants on that section of 8th Street issued complaints and the studio was forced to remove it for a plain-jane version. The only thing left of the original facade is the round bricked window to the left, inside the 1st door. Once inside, I let all the other guests file past me and I was left alone just inside the second studio door. Memories started to race by of me as a kid walking past this building during my weekend trips to The Village. This place used to be a club called Generations. One day when walking by I noticed a sign on the door that said something like, "The future home of Electric Lady Studios". From that point on I made it a point to pass by every week. Walked down the hall to the reception desk where catered food had been set up. There were a couple of the... 
...DigiTech Hendrix pedals mounted on pedestals. As you turn to your left... 
...you enter the Studio A control room with the 80 input SSL console. The main festivities took place... 
...in the main room of Studio A. In front of the piano a large screen and sound system was showing the new 2 DVD set... 
...Jimi Hendrix: Live at Woodstock The first disc is compiled from all the 16mm color film cameras that were used. The second disc, A Second Look consists mainly of the same footage shot on b/w videotape by a drama student (Albert Goodman) that snuck onstage and was assumed to be part of the official film crew. The sponsor of the event said a few words and then introduced... 
...Eddie Kramer, Jimi's right-hand man in the studio. He thanked everyone for attending and especially wanted to thank Jimi Hendrix for making the creation of the studio possible. In closing he said, "Before you leave, make sure you stop by the lounge outside the control room to pick up a gift we have for each of you." The "gift" was a very useful shoulder tote bag. Inside the bag was a purple t-shirt with the DigiTech logo surrounding their Hendrix pedal. On the back of the t-shirt is a graphic of Hendrix at Woodstock. Also inside the bag was the Jimi Hendrix: Live at Woodstock 2 DVD set that had been autographed by Eddie Kramer. I had just ordered this DVD set from the Experience Hendrix site the day before I left for NYC. Somebody will end up with a nice Xmas present. 
This adds to my ability to answer the question, "Have you ever been experienced?" with the answer... Well, I have...Not necessarily stoned, but beautiful. tA  Tribal Disorder
http://www.soundclick.com...dID=182431 [Edited 10/15/05 16:31pm] "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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Electric Lady Studio Sidebar:
John Storyk & Eddie Kramer... 
...standing in the original doorway of Electric Ladyland Studios - 1996 Electric Lady is an amazing place that's perhaps as well known for the Minneta River as for the records that got made there. The studio is on top of a river, like a high flood table now, which ran through the Village. To get the isolation in the B studio, the only way we could do it as the ceiling sloped down was to build sloped walls to support the isolation system. To do that we had to dig down for the footings. But one day we went down one shovelful too much. The next thing you know we had Old Faithful in the basement. We covered it up and shifted the design from a heavy black wall solution to a lighter drywall solution and installed on a permanent basis two water pumping systems, one to back up the other. Several times over the years both pumps have failed and they have had water in there. A more common urban problem would be something like a subway. How has design changed to accommodate urban noise over the years? In the most general sense, not much has changed fundamentally. You still measure the bothering noise, which in this case was the community environment. Electric Lady had two real bothersome neighbors-one was the theater above and the other was the subway about 100 yards away. Today, it's the same process: You measure how much they bother you by. What has changed is that studios have to be quieter than they were 30 years ago because of digital recording. But the process is the same. If I had that same studio to do over again, I wouldn't [approach the noise problem] differently. We did not design for the subway. We decided it was impossible to completely eliminate the subway noise. There wasn't enough height to build practical isolation. So once every ten minutes there's a tiny little rumble in there. They just accept it. It's been going on for 30 years. Excerpt from a 1999 MIX Magazine article with John Storyk http://mixguides.com/stud...gner-0699/ tA Tribal Disorder
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One word. Speechless.
thanks, t/A | |
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YEah yeah blahblah who HASN'T been in Electric Lady Studio and met Eddie Kramer?
yaaaawn. DAMN you lucky dog!!!! www.beaurocks.com Trees are made of WOOD! |
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Nice! Sounds like a Hendrix fan dream!  I like these
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Man, that is so cool I can't believe it! You are blessed my man, I wish I could have been there with u, as I am a huge Hendrix fan too... RIP Prince: thank U 4 a funky Time... |
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