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by dave watkins
Mon Nov 07, 2011 12:54 pm
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: Bunker 2.0 build out
Replies: 43
Views: 20301

damn i want to live in that drum room.

so stoked on all these studio build threads! so inspiring, keep up the amazing work.
by dave watkins
Wed Aug 03, 2011 1:42 pm
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: What Did You Work On Today? 8/3/11
Replies: 37
Views: 12822

oh man gearing up for my album release show tomorrow, assembling some really cool screen printed packaging for it and getting ready to go on the local radio station tonight to hype it up and preview a track. and you know, not sleeping. it guess this thing has been over two years on and off in the ma...
by dave watkins
Wed Jun 29, 2011 4:08 pm
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: NPR - abandoned buildings into studios, where would you?
Replies: 31
Views: 17459

i'm really digging this thread! i always love recording in unconventional spaces, and love listening to recordings done in them. probably the wierdest place i've ever recorded was this abandoned logging railroad tunnel. it's just a one take improv on a hissy flash recorder but it's still sounds kind...
by dave watkins
Wed Jun 01, 2011 8:05 am
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: Day Jobs (or what else you do apart from engineering)
Replies: 63
Views: 23929

BALLET! well... audio and video editing, restoration, midi orchestration, archiving, composition, projection design, voice over work, rinky dink touring madness, occasional scenic work and other random content creation and god knows what all else for a ballet company. it's my full time job, and it's...
by dave watkins
Wed May 04, 2011 11:01 am
Forum: People/Places/Things
Topic: Australian TapeOp guy visiting NYC and other points east
Replies: 9
Views: 3479

if you are driving, you'll likely come thru Richmond, Virginia on your way south, if so, there's lots of great music, tons of restaurants (a few with mind blowing beer selections) and of course a bunch of fellow music & recording nerds. i may be out on tour for part of june/july, but if i'm not, i'm...
by dave watkins
Thu Apr 21, 2011 11:08 am
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: Do you print raised track levels before mixdown?
Replies: 171
Views: 40383

if you are doing that just to see the wave forms better you might want to see if whatever daw you are using allows you to just zoom in on the waveform (without effecting the level) , then you wouldn't have to amplify things just to turn them down so you can keep your mix from clipping. though i'd im...
by dave watkins
Thu Apr 21, 2011 10:28 am
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: Have audiences gotten rude?
Replies: 55
Views: 20779

you pretty much have to reset the standard for how to act at shows. between live music just being thought of as a "thing that happens to be going on at bars while we drink" and all of the future phone mentality of "let's document everything we do with digital devices instead of our brains", the folk...
by dave watkins
Thu Feb 17, 2011 9:20 pm
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: Latest gear you've acquired.....
Replies: 5328
Views: 2125075

tonight i went to get a few things i needed for some projects i'm working on, the folks at the music store seemed baffled for some reason when i kept saying "oh i need to get this such and such from this other department": some moongel a video tripod thread to mic stand adapter an extra big stereo m...
by dave watkins
Tue Feb 15, 2011 10:33 pm
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: One mic drum recording...again.
Replies: 15
Views: 8332

if that's what you have to work with then just go for it and have fun. use Roth's mic placement ideas as a starting points if you like, if it doesn't sound good then move stuff around till you find the right sound, it all really depends on the player, what the room sounds like, and the gear, and kee...
by dave watkins
Sat Feb 12, 2011 7:44 pm
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: CELLO CELLO CELLO
Replies: 29
Views: 8456

the very fact that a cello is fretless and played by a human with a bow is going to allow for microscopic variances of pitch and tonality, no matter how good a player is. it's the slight differences in multiple takes that make say; doubled and hard panned guitar parts sound awesome. the same carries...
by dave watkins
Tue Jan 25, 2011 7:36 am
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: anyone ever had a hard drive UNFORMAT itself?
Replies: 17
Views: 5698

thanks for the help everyone it's been good to have people to bounce ideas off of.
by dave watkins
Tue Jan 25, 2011 7:32 am
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: anyone ever had a hard drive UNFORMAT itself?
Replies: 17
Views: 5698

i've been kind of worried about that too. a power supply problem could be very likely, some of the research i did suggested the my stop errors could be attributed to that (this is of course not factual, just what i have found from other peoples posts on message boards and such). i also don't think t...
by dave watkins
Tue Jan 25, 2011 6:30 am
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: anyone ever had a hard drive UNFORMAT itself?
Replies: 17
Views: 5698

indeed
by dave watkins
Mon Jan 24, 2011 12:50 pm
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: anyone ever had a hard drive UNFORMAT itself?
Replies: 17
Views: 5698

holy shit i am having the worst luck this month. so i got the new sample drive going and all my data restored and up and running again about 2 weeks ago and got back to projects. and BAM! yesterday my boot drive won't boot! thankfully i was able to run chkdsk from the system recovery console and fix...
by dave watkins
Fri Jan 07, 2011 10:36 am
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: What Did You Work On Today? 1-6-11
Replies: 29
Views: 9474

finished getting my work computer back up and running after a major hard drive crash earlier this week. even though i had stuff backed up, it took forever to get things running smoothly again. drove out to return and reinstall an 8 channel wireless intercom system that the ballet company i work for ...