Note to self ! Turn off the phone

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Whilst recording the vocal for my latest masterpiece just on the last sentance the phone rang.
This doesnt normally happen because nobody loves me haha.
Don't get me wrong if i have a session on i normally switch it off but when doing my own stuff or scratch vocal i just leave it on.
Annoyed it had happened especially since it was a call from a nuisance payment protection company. I quit recording to rest my precious voice and listen back to the takes.
So here I am listening back on headphones and i get to the end of the song and the phone rings again. I pick up the lines dead. Not unusual given the amout of nuisance and cold calls i get.
So i rewind a few phrases and carry on with playback as i get to the end of the song well you get the picture i answered again.
How embarassing
Note to self Turn off the phone in future.
Just thought i'd share.
 
I was tracking a band and the singer was doing some tracks. At the end of the best take so far, his phone starts ringing. He looks at me through the glass and says "you can take that out right?". Nope. Take it from the top and turn off your cell phone.
 
I was tracking my own vocals one time and got really into the song, afterwards remembered that my keys were in my pocket, man that was one I'd never had before.
 
The worst is when a cell phone causes interference with an amp. Happens to us all the time with bass amps. It sounds like aliens are coming to invade our session! :p
 
guitarplayr82 said:
The worst is when a cell phone causes interference with an amp. Happens to us all the time with bass amps. It sounds like aliens are coming to invade our session! :p
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For me, phone interference is a far more common problem than ringing. A cellphone will cause interference every minute or two. When you hear it, it's annoying: when you don't hear it, it's even worse, because trust me, you WILL hear it later when mixing.

In my studio, cell phones need to be not just muted, but turned off.

Flourescent lights and fans also need to be turned off during tracking. I switch to incandescent lamps when I'm ready to record.
 
I get that too from the chavy little kids just going by in the street.
 
MetroCenter said:
For me, phone interference is a far more common problem than ringing. A cellphone will cause interference every minute or two. When you hear it, it's annoying: when you don't hear it, it's even worse, because trust me, you WILL hear it later when mixing.

In my studio, cell phones need to be not just muted, but turned off.

Flourescent lights and fans also need to be turned off during tracking. I switch to incandescent lamps when I'm ready to record.
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Add to that no light dimmers.....
 
kip4 said:
Note to self Turn off the phone in future.
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Years ago, I was recording the intro to this song on the organ and just as I got to the end, the phone went off. It was in the days when I used to record on cassette and I'd always give myself a minute of slack before starting a tune. The tune had already been recorded when I got the idea for the organ intro so I had to be absolutely dead on with the timing and it took so many takes before I got the one with perfect timing in all respects. And that was the one the phone rang on !
I just left it in. But for years afterwards, whenever I'd hear the song, I always went to answer the phone at that bit ! And each time I'd think "I keep falling for that ! :facepalm:".

guitarplayr82 said:
Happens to us all the time with bass amps. It sounds like aliens are coming to invade our session! :p
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I was recording my friend doing a vocal on a song called "Space invader" and just as she sang the line about being impregnated by aliens, her flaming phone went off to tell her she'd got a message. But it sounded so surreal in the context of the song that we left it in.

kip4 said:
I get that too from the chavy little kids just going by in the street.
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Earlier this year, I was doing a recording of this dog barking in the distance out of my kids' bedroom window and in the distance but getting closer, I could hear this commotion. It turned out to be my Sudanese neighbour collecting his kids from school. He was speaking to them in his language and because I was above them, as they got closer, they didn't see me. Just as they were coming up the stairwell in the flats we live in, the son {he's the only boy of 3 kids} said something to his Dad and then in a real moany voice said "I hate my teacher !".
I've got to use that in a song one day !
 
Listen to this Smashing Pumpkins - Day Dream - YouTube

Billy Corgan from the Smashing Pumpkins used to always wear this noisy bracelet and never took it off. You can hear it exclusively throughout this entire track on Gish. Listen for the little high pitched jingle you hear starting around 15 seconds.

On another note, does anyone know in which Beatles song you can hear the air conditioner running in the background, because they forgot to turn it off in the studio during the best take?
 
Haha, great thread.

I got a text message during a take a while back.
Radio one did this skit called "One word weather with Nelson Mandella".
There was like a 30 second musical intro, then he'd go "Cloudy" or whatever in a Mandella voice, then the music kicked again.....Funny at the time.

So anyway, my message tone goes "Cloudy" during the third verse of one of Pete Gardiner's songs.
We didn't notice until I saw I had a message and scanned the track knowing it must have been recorded down.


No one else is able to hear it for some reason, but I hear it so clearly. If I'm singing along to the song, I actually say the word cloudy at the appropriate spot.
Song's been on the radio and everything! lol. Technically I probably owe them money for the use of it.



 
I`ve found that if it is`nt the old lady, then it`s the phone, if it is`nt the phone, then the damn cat meows at the worst posible time..

LOL

seriously though..what the.......
 
kip4 said:
So i rewind a few phrases and carry on with playback as i get to the end of the song well you get the picture i answered again.
How embarassing
Note to self Turn off the phone in future.
Just thought i'd share.
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You mean you answered your recorded phone ring? :laughings: That's funny Rich. :thumbs up:
 
RecordingMaster said:
On another note, does anyone know in which Beatles song you can hear the air conditioner running in the background, because they forgot to turn it off in the studio during the best take?
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Don't know of the Beatles one {they kind of led the way in keeping noises on and saw them as making random use of creative accidents} but you hear the noise of the air conditioner at the start of Deep Purple's "Fireball" song and album.
 
Really i'll have to dig out the lp and have a listen it's years since i listened to any deep purple thats just the excuse i needed thanks grim :thumbs up:
 
I wanted the sound of traffic passing by so I hung 2 mics out of an upstairs window.

At the time, we lived close to a pub and this guy staggered out, almost into the path of an oncoming car, the driver tooted him obviously.

The drunk stumbled back to his feet, turned round to the driver and shouted "FUCK YOU"

I still have this around somewhere, waiting for that 'special' song
 
grimtraveller said:
Don't know of the Beatles one {they kind of led the way in keeping noises on and saw them as making random use of creative accidents} but you hear the noise of the air conditioner at the start of Deep Purple's "Fireball" song and album.
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Sounds cool nonetheless. Sounds like they purposefully exaggerated it in the beginning, then attenuated half way through drum intro, then the rest of the mix covers it up later. Cool.
 
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