Dipshit Moment

This pissed me off to no end. I was working on a song for a band that had been started in protools and I was transfering it to DP. It was recorded at 48k and I created a new project in DP that was at 44.1. It brought in the files fine, but when we started tracking more, I had two converters going, both at 48 but one converting to 44.1 into the box. When I went to bounce down, the whole fucking thing was slowed down and pitch shifted down. I'd never had that happen before so I was slightly mystified. I had to create a new project that was running at 48k and import all of our files into the new project. Another reason I hate protools... ha. It was probably my fault...

Rory
 
I've had some embarrasing moments but nothing like calling out a friend. I live in St. Louis but I'm originally from Cincy. So every year or so I go back to visit friends and keep in touch. Well back in college(about 5 years ago) me and a buddy did a bunch of hip hop stuff into his Gateway pc. It was hilarious because I wasn't at all into hip hop but he need another voice. So anyway we spent all our time rapping into a radio shack mic taped to a hockey stick wedged between the bed and the wall. So a few years later I call the guy, turns out we both ended up getting more into recording even though we went our seperate ways. So I tell him I'm coming out to visit and he invites a bunch of his rapper buddies over to show me how his studio works. I get there and his monitors are spaced about 30 feet apart. One was just to the right of his monitor and the other was 30 feet directly to the left basically facing his shoulder. I wasn't going to say anything because it's his gear. So his rap buddy comes over to lay down some vocals. He pulls out an akg c3000 or whatever it's called. As he's setting it up he's telling me how he never gets the vocals to sound good, and can't figure out what he's doing wrong. Long story short(I know, too late) he set up the mic in an end address fashion and had it sticking a good 4 inches thru the pop filter. I stopped the whole session and said "try this", moved the mic to a proper postion and he was like ?????? I proceeded to explain what a side address mic was. Everytime I call he thanks me for that tip.
 
savageblues said:
I recorded our band live with my Korg D1600 at the sound-guys desk.

At the end of the show I went back to 'power down' the recorder only to find the guy had pulled the plug before I could get there, in his haste to tear down.

It doesnt save the data unless you power it down properly, so we got nothing.
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That should be cause to take it back. Seriously, what idiot would design a device that didn't save any data until you shut it down?

This is a problem with hard disk recorders.... With a computer, A. the software I use will not lose the recording even if it crashes or gets its power yanked, B. the hardware is sufficiently in-your-face to prevent any asshat engineer from yanking its power, and C. the data would be recoverable by a geek even if point "A" were not true.
 
TragikRemix said:
my biggest dipshit moment was the day i said "hey can you get me a price for the Digi002..."
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I know you meant, "the greatest day of your life." Seriously though, a 002 isn't that bad.
 
ahh, the basics
i've done the
accidental room mic (why does this sound like he's 10 feet away? i don't get it.)
the mic backwards
and the mystical hum that was coming from the ac unit in the other room.
(change mics, pedals, pre's and cords before i figured that one out.)
 
I can still top all of that.

The band wanted a video recording of a show we'd played with some other bands. Setup the tri-pod, got the remote, put in a tape. Good to go.

Afterwards, we watch the tape. Show sounds fine and we did a good job. Then on the screen comes the "clean up" portion of my homemade porn with a chick I don't date anymore. I grabbed the wrong tape for the show and recorded right over it :mad: The only proof that I could get a hot chick was gone fovever. :mad: :mad:
 
I've applied phantom power to a dynamic once just out of habbit. I've also mis-wired a few things a couple of times that took a day or 2 to figure out because I was too "sure" that everything was wired properly.
 
mentalattica said:
I've applied phantom power to a dynamic once just out of habbit. I've also mis-wired a few things a couple of times that took a day or 2 to figure out because I was too "sure" that everything was wired properly.
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Not really a problem running phantom power to a dynamic.
 
lol yeah I know that's more common than some of the others (so-to-speak), but it's all I could really think of :D
 
$ .02

i had a partnerwho "worked all day" on a compressor setting while i was at my day job.... when i got home he was so proud of what he had accomplished and just had to show me right now what he had done.... i listened for a sec or two then suggested he might want to make sure the comp was engaged.....
 
That reminds me. A fairly well-known young producer/engineer (one of the up and coming stars now in NY) rented out my studio to lay some lead and background vocals on a contemporary gospel album, but he insisted that he needed a stereo tube compressor to run the vocals through on the way into Pro Tools.

At the time I didn't have one, but Parsons Audio was kind enough to lend me one. We did a whole afternoon of recording, and only at the end did he notice that the comp had been in bypass mode the whole session!

But aside from that, the cat was a really amazing engineer... so it can happen to anyone.
 
dementedchord said:
i had a partnerwho "worked all day" on a compressor setting while i was at my day job.... when i got home he was so proud of what he had accomplished and just had to show me right now what he had done.... i listened for a sec or two then suggested he might want to make sure the comp was engaged.....
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After getting an RNC recently I hooked it up and played around with it - worked fine. Later I was working with it again and thinking "wow, this is really subtle...but I'm pretty sure I can hear a difference".

Only to figure out 20 minutes later that I had the power supply unplugged.

I shudder to think of how many times I've gone nuts trying to figure out why no sound was coming out of my guitar amp, trying every knob I can think of, only to discover one end or the other of the instrument cable wasn't plugged in.

And then there are all the times I turned down the volume on the bass guitar, only to have someone count off a song a minute later. I'm playing but no sound....why?!?!...oh...duh...

I don't see this stuff ever NOT happening to me... :)
 
I let one of my understudies take down a set of KM84's that were hung for a live choir concert, needless to say he droped one of them from 6-7 feet up :( , the mic was never the same :( and the relationship with the guy I borrowed said mics from, was never the same either. :(
 
dementedchord said:
i had a partnerwho "worked all day" on a compressor setting while i was at my day job.... when i got home he was so proud of what he had accomplished and just had to show me right now what he had done.... i listened for a sec or two then suggested he might want to make sure the comp was engaged.....
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you what i do now---

i set my compressor, plugin usually, and then i close my eyes and hit 'bypass' say a random number of times exceeding 10ish, and then i listen with my eyes closed and try and guess which sound is compressed...

turns out i like many tracks better without the compressor :confused:
i wonder if im just doing it wrong...
 
TragikRemix said:
you what i do now---

i set my compressor, plugin usually, and then i close my eyes and hit 'bypass' say a random number of times exceeding 10ish, and then i listen with my eyes closed and try and guess which sound is compressed...

turns out i like many tracks better without the compressor :confused:
i wonder if im just doing it wrong...
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I do the exact same thing, I have a song that has compression only on drums, nothing else and I liked it better. Is that so wrong???
 
TragikRemix said:
turns out i like many tracks better without the compressor :confused:
i wonder if im just doing it wrong...
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Compression isnt always a good thing - it can be a crutch even a lot of the time. I avoid using a compressor whenever I can, I just monitor my levels. For example if I'm about to record a section, I play the loudest part and make sure it doesn't clip or even approach it. That way I know I won't have to worry about it later on. And compressors do color the sound, especially when overused. Sometimes people use this as an effect for vocals, but otherwise, it's just ugly. To my ears anyways.
 
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