We have this cute little 'living-room'-festival in our village where loads of artists perform in more than 20 living rooms in our little village (www.cultroyale.nl).
So i have a very little house, but still wanted to be part of it, so we came up with the idea to do recordings in my studio upstairs.
At the same time people donwstairs could watch that on my tv and hear my quick&dirty mix through my stereo-set.
Upstairs it looked like this:
Downstairs:
There were 10 acts scheduled and in about 5 hours we recorded more than 30 tracks.
Unfortunately there are 'problems' with 4 tracks, but most of it is very usable.
Because of the camera, all was recorded on video too. The clips of that are in this playlist:
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLA491DDF383D588FE
On tuesday after the festival i did rough mixes and after getting responses form some artist, this is the result in audio, remixed and 'mastered':
http://www.minimobile.nl/cultmasters.html
And combined with the video, you get this:
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLF4D4ADB44FC9AA6B
YouTube seems to mix up the vids, but a refresh (F5) should work!
All in all, this was a blast to do. This of course is what i call 'guerilla-recording', quick and dirty and all ...
But it's so much fun to try and get as much songs from them in the available half hour per artist.
What really amazed me, was the quick workflow when mixing analog. Most of the time i dread mixing, because i always feel it costs a lot of time.
But i was flabbergasted when i did the first 32 mixes in roughly 8 hours.
The nerd-stuff: the recorder is a Tascam TSR24 (with Ampex 456), but i only used (max) 12 tracks, so i could switch tape.
Inputs went through my Soundtracs Solo, and with the groups i made a mix for the downstairs-audience.
The vocal-mic was (mostly) a MD441, because of the rejection for other sounds. My Reverberocket with a MD421 was used for electric guitars and SP B3 in figure 8 worked for the acoustic guitars, together with AKG451's.
The mix was also done through the Soundtracs Solo.
A little more about the acts:
'tom waits in a new kind of paint' - 2 girls performing tw-songs
'jeroen kant' - call it 'dutch blues' ...
'lucas hamming' - a 17 old year talent, mysterious songs
'channah' - singer/songwriter
'niets dan ellende' - another form of dutch blues
'sue the night' - great singer/songwriter with intriguing songs and multiple vocals
'puck cyson' - kind of soul/fusion
'mirakelse tv-tunes coverband' - fun-band that covers (dutch) tv-tunes
'blue mickey & leander' - singer/songwriters
'the maxima's' - local fun-orchestra
