Freelancers! a poll for ya....

A.David.MacKinnon · Post by **A.David.MacKinnon** » Fri Aug 28, 2009 9:19 am

cgarges wrote:My being a freelancer has zero bearing on my work method. I always prefer to work OTB.

Chris Garges
Charlotte, NC

The same goes for me.

xpulsar · Post by **xpulsar** » Tue Oct 06, 2009 12:27 am

cgarges wrote:My being a freelancer has zero bearing on my work method. I always prefer to work OTB.

Chris Garges
Charlotte, NC

100% agreed. I prefer the sound that I can get with analog processing.

-Collin

svbsound · Post by **svbsound** » Tue Oct 06, 2009 8:09 pm

Yeah I really wish i could work OTB but neither of the studios I regularly work at have this capability...even if i had access to a summing box I'd be happier.

cgarges · Post by **cgarges** » Tue Oct 06, 2009 8:39 pm

I'm finding this more and more. I had a bitch of a time finding studios in DC with a console. (I've got a project I'm doing up there this fall.) Fortunately, it looks like Inner Ear is gonna work out great, but everywhere else that has a console is like $800 a day.

Chris Garges
Charlotte, NC

svbsound · Post by **svbsound** » Tue Oct 13, 2009 12:55 pm

Oh yeah, Inner Ear is pretty cool! The only other place I can think of in the DC area that has a console is Omega Recording studios; the A room has a Neve VR-60 with nuclear missile launch capability. It used to belong to Lucasfilm, if I remember right...anyway that place is probably mucho expensivo. +1 to them for being the first pro studio I ever visited!

roscoenyc · Post by **roscoenyc** » Tue Oct 13, 2009 1:51 pm

Omega has a sweet smaller room with a great old babyshit colored API.

Call 'em up.

svbsound · Post by **svbsound** » Tue Oct 13, 2009 3:02 pm

It may look like babyshit but babyshit doesn't usually have VCA fader automation...

roscoenyc · Post by **roscoenyc** » Tue Oct 13, 2009 3:49 pm

not normally class A either

cgarges · Post by **cgarges** » Wed Oct 14, 2009 4:38 am

roscoenyc wrote:Call 'em up.

I did. Was put on hold for ten minutes and every time the receptionist came back on the line, she had forgotten what I was calling about. After hearing similar stories from other folks and stupid shit like them constantly modifying their rates, I gave up on having any interest in that place. It was like dealing with a clown college.

Chris Garges
Charlotte, NC

roscoenyc · Post by **roscoenyc** » Wed Oct 14, 2009 5:35 am

cgarges wrote:
roscoenyc wrote:Call 'em up.
I did. Was put on hold for ten minutes and every time the receptionist came back on the line, she had forgotten what I was calling about. After hearing similar stories from other folks and stupid shit like them constantly modifying their rates, I gave up on having any interest in that place. It was like dealing with a clown college.

Chris Garges
Charlotte, NC

Ah,
sorry to hear that.
They do operate a clown college out of that place in between real sessions.
Too bad 'cause that API room sounded great.

E

cgarges · Post by **cgarges** » Wed Oct 14, 2009 5:41 am

Yeah, I got excited about the consoles. They actually have more than one that I like working on.

Chris Garges
Charlotte, NC

megajoe · Post by **megajoe** » Mon Oct 19, 2009 12:13 am

I end up mixing OTB more often. I have the keys to a room with a 6000 G, and I use it as much as I can. My personal recording setup is minimal, and I do some on-location ITB sessions for friends (not just any client) who can't afford the room.

Jon Nolan · Post by **Jon Nolan** » Tue Oct 20, 2009 12:41 pm

1200 views and sixteen votes. weird! split up the middle right now. how innerestin.

bestmixerever · Post by **bestmixerever** » Tue Oct 20, 2009 2:51 pm

Unattended= ITB without exception.
Attended=start ITB, final OTB

Unattended ITB because the process of mixing has become very political. The bass players girlfriend thinks that his background vocals aren't loud enough? Guess what? You're goin back in to turn the sloppy mess up. Can't put the shit back in he dog. Everyone knows that "all you have to do is open the file up and "tweak" the track". It's expected now. I've spent too many days of my life resetting outboard gear to turn a syllable of a word up or down without compensation to continue to do so. I keep the mixes ITB to keep the brain in my skull.

Brian · Post by **Brian** » Tue Oct 20, 2009 5:18 pm

noeqplease wrote:
Jon Nolan wrote:i have my own room, and usually mix OTB. but if i want another crack at a mix the next day - no worries. i just wonder about how a freelancer deals with this OTB scenario if they're renting another room, and other freelancing specific dynamics like it.
If I know the mixes I'm working on are going to be final, then I do a mix of ITB and OTB.

For all the OTB stuff, once the mix has been finalized and approves, I then record into my PT all the audio that went out and back in, so I have it all ITB for future reference.

Cheers

I'd rather mix oTB, but most 'O'th'time,
Whut he had said.

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