What did you work on tonight?

[cgarges]

Anyone at the studio making back ups, winding down, or having a beer to forget about the session? What did you work on tonight? (By the way, this applies to Thursday, July 17th.)

Chris Garges
Charlotte, NC

[NewAndImprov]

Anyone at the studio making back ups, winding down, or having a beer to forget about the session? What did you work on tonight? (By the way, this applies to Thursday, July 17th.)

Chris Garges
Charlotte, NC

Yeah, I think I finished mixing a project tonight. Jazz vocal and piano duo, with acoustic bass on 3 tunes. Very nice stuff, all standards, mostly ballads, good sounding tracks. I should find out saturday if the mixes fly.

After burning reference disc and setting retrospect to backup the session, I took the dogs on a long hike, good post-mix wind down.

[joel hamilton]

Wiring. The least fun.

Customizing a console. Really fun.

Just chillin out now, which incidentally is why I even like this board in the first place. Fun easy reading after a session.

[whosmatt]

nothing! and i love it. the band chose to end their session a day early, and i got home after 2 weeks away (freelancer) and i'm on studio time so i'm awake at 5 am. go figure. normally i would be doing backups now.

[heylow]

I went to get some artwork done for a record and then checked some snakes I just built for continuity....and are I say I am a master snake maker. Glad to be done though



heylow

[xonlocust]

well. it's last night now - but i redid vocals on an 8 song project. both backing and lead. i had to crash immediately after in order to get up early for the day job. {cursed day job....}

a new one for me though, i did the lead with a nevaton mk51 in figure 8 (thanks moogplayer) and really liked how i got the room ambience in there. the singer was like - do you have some effect on this or something? nope. just the room. that was cool. also, backing female vocals which were kinda harsh and nasally at first, then i put them on an oktava ml52 ribbon, and it really smoothed out the ugliness and helped them sit back nicely. i was happy.

you learn something new every day.

[PatrickBrown]

Nothing, Just surfing and mulling over what possible stereo buss compressor to get.
I_have_lately been doing a version of Shady Grove, based on Bruce Molksy's Major key version, rather than the minor key you usually hear. I do Old Time Fiddle/Banjo Appalachian, and I also do Rock,,Hard Rock, and I like to combine them. To wit, fiddle and banjo and acoustic guitar, with bass and drums, and vocal. Trying to make it sound spooky. If you're in c, the tonal center note is d, so it's a dorian flavor,,which itself is minor,,but not minor like we're used to. Not even pure dorian, cuz I'm droning a C chord on the guitar, in DADGAD dropped a whole step, rather than droning a D chord, which would pull it into full dorian. Nice hollow bass drum sound,,reminiscent of Native American drums.
Harlan KY is in southeast KY,,,the 'I'm going back to Harlan' line. This area is a hotbed of great OldTime Music, and also of Appalachian, Native American, and Melungeon culture. You ever read anything by Manly Wade Wellman?,,,the Silver John stuff?
Slightly sad, cuz I rehab, and release wildlife, and I released some yesterday, July 17. I get pretty attached to them.

[JES]

Was supposed to just bounce down a stereo rough mix so my bandmate can hear if he likes his performance. Instead I started messing around with mix ideas, came up with a heavily overproduced "rough" mix of a couple songs. Lots of ideas -- I might even use some of them!

Best,
--JES

[knmy]

sleeping...

nighty night.

[apropos of nothing]

Thai Holy Basil Supreme! It turned out delicously! Here's the recipe:
http://216.239.39.104/search?q=cache:Xq ... n&ie=UTF-8

Tonight I'll be composing some romantic music for my wife.

[housepig]

converting 70's porno from Beta to dvd.

wacka-chikka wacka-chikka wacka-chikka wacka-chikka BAH Dun ...Dun DAAAAAHHHH

man, it must have been great to be a plumber, telephone repairman or grocery delivery boy in the 70's... pay ain't great, but you can't beat the fringe benefits...

- housepig

[soundguy]

spent last night working out the bussing on a neve console. Seems easy enough, but its trial by fire for a retard like me. Today we get to design the input cards and have another meeting about the chasis.

I cant wait until this thing is done.

dave

[JES]

Thai Holy Basil Supreme! It turned out delicously! Here's the recipe:
http://216.239.39.104/search?q=cache:Xq ... n&ie=UTF-8

Holy shit. I moved away from Minneapolis in 1993 and that dish was one that I missed the most. I spent awhile working to recreate it -- though the waiter at Sawatdee did tell me about the fish sauce, which is key.

One of my favorite dishes, though I make it vegetarian (except for the fish sauce, for which I've yet to find a decent veg substitute).

Best,
--JES

[apropos of nothing]

JES: Starting seperate thread for Sawatdee, et al. over on off-topic, et al.

[Professor]

Well, late afternoon was a bit of extra reverb added to four movements of a flute and piano piece mixed earlier in the week - the flautist likes lots of reverb. Three cheers for the System 6000 and 'Warm Cathedral'. After that, however was the worst of chores, paper work. I'll take cable building any day. Typing out drafts of copyright and royalty forms that will hopefully protect the school if some client records covers in the studio and tries to sell them without paying their dues. That's excitement right there. Oh and I got a frantic call from a real estate agent who had to show me a depressingly run down rat's nest of a house that she was sure would be flying off the market.
No thai food, but a little bit of home made chinese, a quick stop in to check on the student engineer running sound for the dress rehearsal of tonight's play, and some jazz at the local jazz club. Actually quite a busy evening all things considered - I hadn't realized.

-Jeremy