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Dorkfest. Recording junk. May include lengthy details of electronic circuitry or the innane. (Just like every other blog) Mostly the whatsit and whosit of whatever audio and recording related things I'm working on but I want you to participate. |
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wMonday, October 04, 2004 |
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the splints @ studio greg studios
so far so good on this one. sat afternoon i went to greg's and we (ok, he - i just watched a lot and asked a lot of questions) calibrated the MCI tape machine. ch 24 was acting a fool so he recommended "not using it for anything important - like talkback" so i did. he also went over the routing and logic of the console. everything seemed pretty kosher.
later that night greg, russ, andrew and i went out and got drunk. greg and andrew hit on chicks while russ and i were relegated to the "taken" table talking about php and possible future features of the electrical site. much of the time was devoted to novotny impressions. after being out wayy to late russ and i left the other 2 to thier devices (of course - those being them ending up going home sans-chicas)
anyway, so i wake up real tired and mildly hungover. get some donuts. head to gregs. friendly mexican gentleman yells something at me when i park the van in front of thier yard. he keeps repeating himself but he's speaking in spanish. his 6yr old daughter translates that he wants me to move the van.
the band shows up around 11 and unloads and sets up. the drums look like they're going to sound really crappy, but they actually sounded pretty good. it takes what seems like forever to set up 15 mics and get levels to tape. i get confused by the new routing on the console a number of times and by trying to fix one thing, end up screwing up another. there's no pad on the console, so i'm really thrown having to reposition the overheads and bass drum mics to places i wasnt intending.
guitars are really quick and easy. i initially had an sm7 on the bass but switched it for a d112.
1. k/in - sen 421 > tk 1
2. k/out - beyer tgx 55 > valley dynamite > tk 2 (had high output, about 1 ft back)
3. s - beyer 201 > tk 3
4. rt - oktava 012 > bussed to tk 4/5
5. mt > oktava 012 > bussed to tk 4/5
6. ft > oktava 319 > bussed to tk 4/5
7. ohl > 4051 > tk 6 - originally spaced pairs but i couldnt get them high enough to not crap out. eventually were in front of the kit coincident.
8. ohr > 4051 > tk 7
9. mono > rca bk-5a > rnc > tk 8 - i expected to like this a lot more than i did. kinda thin sounding. not used in monitor mixes. first few songs compressed to tape, but then left uncompressed for more options in mix.
10. aml > 4051 > tc delay/15ms > tk 9
11. amr > 4051 > tc delay/15ms > tk 10
12. bass > d112 (orig sm7) > dbx 160 > tk 11
13. gtr > m88 > tk 12
14. gtr > 4033 > tk 13 - 4033 sounded way better than it had in the past for me
15. gtr am > 58 > tk 14 - pretty crappy sounding. left out of mixes.
just barely went into 2 reels of gp9. 14 songs. started doing takes at 1, they left at about 5:30. super fast through the songs. they seem pretty happy so far. made a rough mix on greg's computer on digital performer. it's been the season of multiuple recording formats. in the last month i've recorded on nuendo, digital performer, HD24 and 2".
greg was super awesome professional about it all - did everything he could to make me look good. was there immediately whenever i needed any help and was pretty much transparent to the band. waytogo greg.
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two tickets to paradise at 1:24 PM
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