Damn Technology

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I've had a few problems here and wanted to know if this has been a problem with others.

People bringing their iphones or blackberries and such into the room while recording and there seems to be some interference in the recordings like the sound when a tube is on the way out in a tube microphone.






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Yup, I use to set my cell phone on top of my digital piano, every time someone would call me the piano's speakers would start to squeal starting about 1 second before I heard the beginning of my ring tone.

Rach
 
Yup that happens all of the time ... but what about the ones that are constantly looking for an internet wireless conection?
While running sound for the Primaries here in N.H. every time one of the gombas would walk up to me to ask if every thing was OK they had a ********** or iphone in their hand I'd get interference with my signal.
Will this be the case in the studio as well?






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I guess you can't use the word b********** here!
Damn it .... blackberries





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Cell phones out of the studio!:mad:

I hate em enough as it is but when they interrupt me while I'm doing my second favorite thing in the world I want them destroyed.


In previous bands I was in there were members that would stop and walk out of the room in the middle of a song to take a phone call. WTF?:confused::mad:
The song is at most 5 minutes long you can't wait until we're done and call them back?
 
This one guy has a tuner on his phone and I think his track has some noise from it being right there next to him. :mad:






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yep ....... phones'll put all kinds of noise in guitar amps in live settings so I'm sure it'll be an issue in the studio.
 
Lt. Bob said:
yep ....... phones'll put all kinds of noise in guitar amps in live settings so I'm sure it'll be an issue in the studio.
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Thanks Lt.
It's a shame for it was some great stand up bass tracks that will have to be redone.:(

From now on all cell phones to OFF! ;)







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Yeah it was a tube microphone set to omni with the power supply and all set right there kinda next to it ...... damn! :spank:







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moresound said:
Yeah it was a tube microphone set to omni with the power supply and all set right there kinda next to it ...... damn! :spank:







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dude this blows, i'm sorry. Yeah, I tell everyone to tell their cell phones off, especially the musician. I've never had any interference ruin a recording, but it can be so F&*@#$% distracting for the musician and everyone when he/she gets a text every damn minute.
 
Yup a new sign to be made for sure!

Please place all cell phones in this blender. :laughings:







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When we had a young vocalist (16 yrs old) in the studio, her family - mother father and sister - accompanied her. The poor girl was nervous enough, it being her first recording session and all. The scene on the couch behind the mixing desk didn't help; there's her entire family, not one of them paying attention at all. All three of them were far too preoccupied checking their e-mail or texting their friends or playing games or whatever on their little toys to give a shit about what was actually going on. It was extremely rude.

There was no electronic interference with any of the studio gear at the time, but I have little doubt that their use had at least some negative effect on the performer herself.

Sometimes those little toys may not cause technical interference, but they are very often used in times and places where they should not be. And if you ask me, the control room (or live room) of the studio that is in session is one of those places, unless it's specifically for studio business.

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SouthSIDE Glen said:
When we had a young vocalist (16 yrs old) in the studio, her family - mother father and sister - accompanied her. The poor girl was nervous enough, it being her first recording session and all.
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I've experienced that. Keep cell phones and parents out of the studio!
 
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I've experienced that. Keep cell phones and parents out of the studio!
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Well, I can't blame the parents for wanting to escort their 16-yr-old-daughter when she's going otherwise alone into a room with no windows and a handful of middle-aged male musicians/engineers between her and the door. I know if it were my daughter, there's no way I'd allow it unless at least I were there with her and packing a weapon for self-defense.

And they really stayed quiet and out of the way and let us do our job just fine. Far better behaved than your average band/entourage. But if you could have seen the three of them just sitting there in a row playing with their individual toys instead of taking interest in what they were ostensibly actually there for (and not even talking to each other), it really was a sad sight.

I'll admit that watching the sausage being made in a studio can get boring, but they didn't even give it time to get boring before they broke out their little packets of electronic soma gas.

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There has to be a time and place for everything.

Glen your story reminds me of one that During the live sound of our business.

I had a fellow working for me and everything he did was one handed for his phone was in the other texting away one handed then when the opportunity arose he would use both hands to tex. Just slowed down the whole load in process for everyone.
Then continued through out the show and the load out .... What the heck can someone text about for so long?

I didn't fire him but .... I don't call him that much for jobs anymore.







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moresound said:
What the heck can someone text about for so long?:
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And what the hell did he do with himself and his hands five years ago before texting became the general public drug that it did? (On second thought, I probably don't want to know :eek: ;) )

G.
 
You might have to be really clear about the difference between turning a phone OFF and turning it to SILENT, which is what a lot of people consider OFF to be..

Get an old blender and an old phone, smash it up with a hammer, and stick it in blender and leave somewhere everyone can see it, I reckon...
 
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And what the hell did he do with himself and his hands five years ago before texting became the general public drug that it did? (On second thought, I probably don't want to know :eek: ;) )

G.
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:laughings::laughings::laughings: idle minds and hands :laughings::laughings::laughings:





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