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You might check out the bonus material for "Grizzly Man," the Herzog documentary. Good in studio stuff with Richard Thompson to boot. Not real technical, but valuable just to see how scores work with film, etc. well worth tracking down, some great stuff on that feature, some amazing playing too the...

I double track a lot, but more and more I try not too, a single vocal sounds way more expressive and "earnest", if the song needs it I double harmony vocals left and right as a matter of course, if I do two harmonys I've got four faders to manage, if I do doubles on the main vocal I know have six......

Roland HP 203 Digital Piano anyone have one? any thoughts?

also I'm getting it shipped from overseas, how much assembly is involved with it?

thanks in advance!!!

if yr into B&S track down the song Lazy Line Painter Jane, recorded live in a church hall, it's astonishing, total wall of sound stuff, you can hear bits of piano in there that are just sitting under the organ and bass pumping along with no ego, just another part of The Sound, and the reverb is all ...

if yr on a computer you could copy your overhead track, put a gate on it and try and get it too open on the snare hits... I like throwing something like this thru a stereo delay, you have your mono overhead, with the snare getting feed in stereo thru the delay, it doesn't even have to sound great, j...

you said you have preformed these songs before so maybe this doesn't apply, but I've found before I even think about singing I mae a rough mix, stick on my MP3 Player. I listen to it on the bus, when I'm out walking, whenever, just randomly, stick a song with a vocal you like or think might apply on...

actually, i am familiar with this problem. no matter what i do, all my songs are about 2 minutes and 10 seconds long. at one point i was like, how the fuck do i make a normal 3 minute song????? its really hard. my solution was to write a one minute intro! [/quote] Guitar solos!!! Double choruses at...

from NME.com Prince's half-time show under scrutiny Critics allege he used his guitar as a phallic symbol Several critics and bloggers who watched Prince's half-time performance at Sunday's Super Bowl are alleging that he intentionally used his guitar as an inappropriate phallic symbol. Ever since a...

I've been offered a nice deal on a Tascam Porta Two Cassette four track, one of the late 80's type models with the funky VUs (not the 02). I'm probably going to take it for shits n' giggles, be nice to muck around with a bit... have notions of recording drums, varispeed them a bit on it and dumping ...

John Wood. Holy Christ, "I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight" is a great album. And he co-produced it too, so mabye we'll get some tips on how to capture awsome performances like the ones on that damm near perfect album. AND fairport AND nick drake AND dr strangly strange AND the incredible str...

MoreSpaceEcho wrote:actually, i think the record another track of hihat is a better idea. or just overdub like 4 tracks of shaker or something.

I've heard some stories that some folks sometimes record song without shakers...

why? why would anyone do that?

S.O.S. magazine (a pretty good British recording/engineering rag) did a piece about the recording of 'The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down' in their 'Classic Tracks' column. It's not free on their site, but it's well worth tracking down if you want to peek at the magic. http://www.soundonsound.com/s...

http://theband.hiof.no/band_pictures/classic_albums_dvd_2005-rerelease.jpg track this bad boy down, it deal with the brown album but I think it was the same producer he, if I remember rightly, talks about big pink... dude ends up drawing diagrams of where they all sat in the studio, Levon sits at a...

he's playing in Dublin next week!

been a long time since I've been this excited about a gig... that is all...

yay!

it's kind of a fact that if you put on a hat of any kind it will create some kind of frequency shift to what you actually hear vs. what you hear with out a hat on - so to me it seems like it could kind of be a no-no to do any kind of mixing/mastering or even tracking decisions while wearing one. Th...