AFHS - America's Funniest Home Studio

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I could comment on all of this, but I noticed that it's: AFHS - America's Funniest Home Studio.
 
Guitargodgt said:
A band consisting of nobody older than 16 walks in and wants to do a song.

They show up with a drumset that isn't playable... literally the kick drum doesn't stand up. Also I have never witnessed a drumset with a kick that shallow, it seriously couldn't have been more than a 20X14 no exaggeration.

So first thing I do is borrow my brother's bands drumset (a mapex saturn).

We get all setup and this is what they record as a scratch track:



There was maybe another min of that before I sort of tell them we need to stop. A day later I call them (after I have time to process just what the fuck happened) and tell them they need to at least write a song before they record (they knew what they did was not a song). I wasn't trying to be offensive with saying that either. If they were in there 20s it would have been different. I'm quite a bit different in my demeanor with kids. I originally dealt with the parents, but the parents didn't seem to want to be involved more than signing my contract.

They are persistant though and ask another local kid to come help them write, honestly I wouldn't have entertained the idea if A) I wasn't already paid (I was going to pay them back the money) and B) I didn't know the kid already.

So kid comes in and we write the song bar by bar, we agree that fake drums are the way to go (the kid in the scratch track quit anyway I guess). I made them as simple as possible for them in hopes they could find a drummer who could play it. We spend roughly 5 hours writing ONE track. Once it's done I say "ok lets do the vocals now." The kid does the vocals totally on the fly and not in time at all. The song you will hear below was edited... and still bad. haha

When every one leaves, I redo the guitars (through the same tone, which I admit was pretty bad) and do a bass up for it, mix it and call it good enough.

This is what it ended up being:



Also: The band has since disbanded, I have talked with the guitarist. He knows how bad this was, but was thankful it came out as well as it did. haha

He is out of high school at this point and gets a pretty good laugh about it.
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I actually preferred the first rack better! :guitar:
 
I've never had a funny home studio in America.
Besides, nothing funny ever happens when I record.
Except the songs ! :D
 
grimtraveller said:
I've never had a funny home studio in America.
Besides, nothing funny ever happens when I record.
Except the songs ! :D
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Did you record on the roof of your flat, or something to that effect? Thought that mayhem abounded then.
 
Without fail when I am recording my old dog will wander into the room and start farting. Try to maintain your vocal stylings while holding your nose!
 
I'd have to say when we finished recording a band in their practice space and while the mic's were still on one of their friends came down the stairs and yelled "I just got a nug for 50 cents". we all laughed so hard that we decieded to leave it in.
 
Guitargodgt said:
When every one leaves, I redo the guitars
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lolololol I've done that! :D I wonder how common that is.....

I'd have to say when we finished recording a band in their practice space and while the mic's were still on one of their friends came down the stairs and yelled "I just got a nug for 50 cents". we all laughed so hard that we decieded to leave it in.
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I ALWAYS keep a room mic rolling when possible, you get tons of hilarity like that!
 
moresound said:
Did you record on the roof of your flat, or something to that effect? Thought that mayhem abounded then.
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That is such an AWESOME idea. I'm so going to do this! I'm deathly afraid of heights and the main roof is three stories up - but at least it's flat!
 
I had a student band that sounded very promising and I made a number of recordings so they could share their music and promote the band. Those recordings were used as entry CDs for Battle of the Bands competitions and as demo CDs for getting gigs. Some of the recordings were done on site and others were multitracked using some reasonable gear and hours of mixing to get the best sound possible.

We parted company when they interpreted my insistence on more dedication to practice as "pushing".

Two years later, their facebook comments waffled about them approaching a low-cost recording company and doing their first "real recording"....

Then they waffled about how great they sounded. And a year later, no-one has heard that recording...

At least now I know how to make "real" recordings. Do all the work and then never release the song... got it :D
 
I have a mini studio in our front room and kept wondering why my headphone cable kept getting more and more of a twist to it. But I would take off the phones carefully and didn't turn them ... I even posted a question on it.

Turned out that when I recorded guitar with the phones on, I would wrap the cable behind my head so it would be out of the way. When I took off the phones, it was as if I'd twisted the cable 180 degrees. It finally dawned on me ...

Duh.
 
Every trade likes to blow off steam with stories about the clients and the client's foibles.
I have to admit that I have done the same thing - it's a natural response.
I have to admit, also, to being flumoxed by substitution rackets.
 
YellowDwarf said:
I have a mini studio in our front room and kept wondering why my headphone cable kept getting more and more of a twist to it. But I would take off the phones carefully and didn't turn them ... I even posted a question on it.

Turned out that when I recorded guitar with the phones on, I would wrap the cable behind my head so it would be out of the way. When I took off the phones, it was as if I'd twisted the cable 180 degrees. It finally dawned on me ...

Duh.
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:laughings:
 
First story is in my signature. It's actually a quote from me as a n00b.


I was taking a class in recording and mixing. Since I was the only guitar player here, the instructor asked me to play guitar while everyone else recorded and took notes. We used a condenser that had Omni, Cardioid, and Figure 8 switches on so we can hear the differences in each setting. After I did the first take in Omni, my instructor asked me to change the patterns, to which I said, "Nahhhhh mannnnn, I ain't touching it, dat thing's expensivvvee." There was someone else in the tracking room, so it's not like someone came from the control room to change it, but it was still funny looking back. The class said that quote for the rest of the year. I still do sometimes.


Another story happened in my home studio. I was recording a band that didn't know a single song. They decided to do a cover on the fly. They messed up, and it was a real frustrating experience for me. After, the band was sitting and fucking talking while I was mixing. The snare was ringing really bad, so I did the sweeping EQ technique to find the ringing frequency. When I zeroed in on it (before I cut it) the band was just said, "dude that sounds horrible! Do you even know what you're doing?"

:facepalm:


My reply...


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OH! One more funny story from my class. So we were recording a radio show for a local station. We only had 3 pop filters available and there were 4 people. So our instructor pushed the talkback button and told the person "you can sort of get around this by pointing the mic at an angle. Just move the swivel."

Student doesn't know what the swivel is and starts moving random stuff.

"No, the swivel. The swivel...... the....... swivel....... THE SWIVEL (let's go of the talkback button) YOU FUCKING RETARD! (turns it back on) the swivel. The swivel....... (Student finally moves the swivel) Good job...."
 
There has to be several funny *talk back button* stories here from everyone. :thumbs up:
 
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