iPhone RFI in the Studio Problems?
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My band had a gig recorded at a jazz club, really nice sounding room, and we hired a great engineer to track it. We were hoping to release it as a live CD (and still might). At this club, there's tables right up to the front of the stage. At the beginning of on of the sax solos, some guy at the front table's phone goes off, he had the ringer off, but the interference just obliterated the sax channel. And it was in the quiet section where he was doing some really nice textural stuff. Otherwise, the track was great, but editing that section out of the solo made it a lot less dynamic and interesting.
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it's our policy that cell gadgets of any kind are not allowed for this reason--actually i've found that it's just a good excuse to get rid of dumbasses talking incessantly to their girlfriend/manager/a&r guy/etc
it's easy to enforce: just have someone call a cellphone, wave it by a monitor, ask,'do you want this sound all over your record?', they put their phones in their cars, you later explain that your phone has a special chip in it so the interference doesn't go to tape. . .
it's easy to enforce: just have someone call a cellphone, wave it by a monitor, ask,'do you want this sound all over your record?', they put their phones in their cars, you later explain that your phone has a special chip in it so the interference doesn't go to tape. . .
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You guys ever notice how often this cellphone interference pops up on C-span? Seriously, it does...a ton. I'm convinced that the engineers there have no idea what is going on and it's probably one of them in the booth that is to blame.
It is also very common on a lot of televised news conferences.
It is also very common on a lot of televised news conferences.
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Well, there are clients who come in who either feel they must always be reachable by celphone/blackberry, or who are required by their employer to always be reachable by celphone/blackberry, or are juggling three or more other projects in other studios and have to be reachable by celphone/blackberry, and if they can't have those devices turned on in my studio they may 1) lose their job, b) fuck up one of the other jobs or iii) decide to not use my studio in favor of a place that's not so anal about it.Sloan wrote:Why is this even an issue?
TURN THAT SHIT OFF.
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Everytime this guy's cellphone goes off in my english class his iPod's volume shoots to max.
Freaky shit.
Freaky shit.
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i've never had a problem with it going to tape(disk) i can imagine iPhones are really bad though, because at&t's interference is always by far the loudest and worst. i had sprint and never heard it, but when i switched to t-moblie, sometimes i can hear it in the monitors.
too band sprint is a horrible service provider...
too band sprint is a horrible service provider...
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We actually did have it print to "tape" the other day, doing an ISDN session from LA--the engineer or the voiceover guy (not sure which) had his celphone on and it chirped in the middle of a take. And of course it got into their system and was fed through to mine. Oddly it's never printed during a totally local session.
"Jeweller, you've failed. Jeweller."
"Lots of people are nostalgic for analog. I suspect they're people who never had to work with it." ? Brian Eno
All the DWLB music is at http://dwlb.bandcamp.com/
"Lots of people are nostalgic for analog. I suspect they're people who never had to work with it." ? Brian Eno
All the DWLB music is at http://dwlb.bandcamp.com/
In that case, you just deal with it.dwlb wrote:Well, there are clients who come in who either feel they must always be reachable by celphone/blackberry, or who are required by their employer to always be reachable by celphone/blackberry, or are juggling three or more other projects in other studios and have to be reachable by celphone/blackberry, and if they can't have those devices turned on in my studio they may 1) lose their job, b) fuck up one of the other jobs or iii) decide to not use my studio in favor of a place that's not so anal about it.Sloan wrote:Why is this even an issue?
TURN THAT SHIT OFF.
by ejecting them during takes.Sloan wrote:In that case, you just deal with it.dwlb wrote:Well, there are clients who come in who either feel they must always be reachable by celphone/blackberry, or who are required by their employer to always be reachable by celphone/blackberry, or are juggling three or more other projects in other studios and have to be reachable by celphone/blackberry, and if they can't have those devices turned on in my studio they may 1) lose their job, b) fuck up one of the other jobs or iii) decide to not use my studio in favor of a place that's not so anal about it.Sloan wrote:Why is this even an issue?
TURN THAT SHIT OFF.
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