Kids with lots of recording equipment

[MoreSpaceEcho]

Geoff Emerick didn't know shit about all of those expensive toys when he was engineering fucking Revolver at 21.

[LazarusLong]

He is still 21, so he won't know how to use his expensive toys for a while.

Yeah man... Geoff Emerick didn't know shit about all of those expensive toys when he was engineering fucking Revolver at 21. Same with Nigel Godrich, who had to be totally clueless when he started working with Radiohead at 23.

Young people clearly have no business in recording studios!!!!

Subatomic, I believe that noeqplease was utilizing something called humor. Check it out!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humour

[chris harris]

Subatomic, I believe that noeqplease was utilizing something called humor. Check it out!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humour

LazarusLong, I disagree. Welcome to tha interwebz. When we post something that seems earnest, but mean it to be tongue-in-cheek, we use Emoticons. Check it out!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoticons

[Jay Reynolds]

Subatomic, I believe that noeqplease was utilizing something called humor. Check it out!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humour

LazarusLong, I disagree. Welcome to tha interwebz. When we post something that seems earnest, but mean it to be tongue-in-cheek, we use Emoticons. Check it out!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoticons

Actually, it's teh interwebz~

[chris harris]

it's a series of tubes!!

[Jay Reynolds]

that Al Gore claims to have invented!

[chris harris]

that Al Gore claims to have invented!

I invented the song.

[Gentleman Jim]

I invented the song.

I invented self righteous outrage. But unfortunately, subatomic pieces patented it and got it to market first.

<--- See, an emoticon. It's just humor, people.

[chris harris]

I invented the song.

I invented self righteous outrage. But unfortunately, subatomic pieces patented it and got it to market first.

<--- See, an emoticon. It's just humor, people.

I could make a long list of people around here who could claim to have "created" it.

[MoreSpaceEcho]

alright at this point i'm taking the entire thread out for coffee. let's go.

decaf only though. buncha high strung mofos.

[Studiodawg]

I saw a bunch of rich kids in Grosse Pointe as I was growing up. A lot of them got whatever they wanted. It never seemed to bother me. You shouldn't let the young fellas toys get you down. If you get busy enough in your own recording world, you won't have time to worry about his recording world. Maybe you should branch out and seek clients from Eaton Rapids, DeWitt, Charlotte...and get busy!

[dontfeartheringo]

very good advice from an old mentor: "keep your eye on the ball, not the players."

j-no

This is such good advice.

I gave it such an aggressive thumbs-up that I stuck myself in the eye. (It's still early in my day here...)

I have been reading the Tape-Op book on Creative Recording all week- y'know, there's like three U-47s in the whole book. Everyone else is making great and interesting recordings with old tape machines, mics they got at Radio Shack, balls of mud, bits of wire and ostrich feathers.

It's not the gear. It's not even the rooms. It's the will and determination to create great art. One of my favorite recordings of all time is "Brand New Love" by Sebadoh. Sounds like it was recoded in the back of a van (DOWN BY THE RIVER!). It changes tempos about five times, it saturates to the point that it sounds like someone used Kevin Shields' tinnitus as an slosh mic, and it's probably been heard by less people than there are channels on the SSL used to record the last Beyonce record, but LISTEN TO THAT GUITAR AT THE END.

No one goes to eat at Le Cirque because of the plates. Nice gear is nice. Great music is going to happen whether you're using $4k mics or NOT. Just be there with the red light on! Just find a way to do it!

Great performances happen no matter whether there's an old German tube in the signal chain or not.

Then, when TapeOp sends Liz Bustamante over to take your picture and they ask you how you did such an amazing recording with such minimal gear, you can just smile and nod like an old zen master and say "Oh, this ol' stuff? I just got to know it REALLY well since it's ALL I HAD."

[/soapbox]

This is just me ruminating. I'm not calling anyone out here! Just keep the red light on! That's all I'm trying to say.

[CurtZHP]

............That's all I'm trying to say.

AMEN!

(Doing the Pentacostal wave. And I'm not even Pentacostal!)

[Nick Sevilla]

He is still 21, so he won't know how to use his expensive toys for a while.

Yeah man... Geoff Emerick didn't know shit about all of those expensive toys when he was engineering fucking Revolver at 21. Same with Nigel Godrich, who had to be totally clueless when he started working with Radiohead at 23.

Young people clearly have no business in recording studios!!!!

I'm not sure if my post or yours is funnier... but we were all young and ignorant in a studio once... ahhh what bliss that was...

[Nick Sevilla]

Geoff Emerick didn't know shit about all of those expensive toys when he was engineering fucking Revolver at 21.

Hey, I have a Staffie too... but no cat to kick his butt.