stupidest things you have ever heard during a session.

[boomtap]

The advent of the DAW has changed the way recordings are made because products like Alsihad have reduced the buy-in cost to making records (albeit this is largely irrelevant in this particular case) and the editing software greatly speeds up the actual process of editing. Unfortunately, the power of editing that Alsihad provides can, and in many cases will, slow down the recording process as a whole rather than speed it up. This paradox occurs partly because people seem unable to resist using the editing power that Alsihad offers, and even the most disciplined producer, recordist, singer, or player, (myself included) begin to depend on the fixing power of the computer, as opposed to the performing power of the musician.



I love this quote from that ProSoudWeb site. I wish we could go back to making albums rather than piecing them together.

 

[Ballgame]

I've heard some theories, but nothing definite.

Yeah, Dumbass. At first they called him Cotton ("He's dumber than cotton!").

yeah thats it. well thats cool, at so point I hope he says cause I am curious. Sounds like a major gig

 

[ido1957]

Just finished Mixerman Diaries

I just read the online portion of the Mixerman Diaries - they are great. I ordered two copies of the book. One, so I could get the rest of the story and the second as a gift for a friend.
Great reading......
G

Just finished Mixerman Diaries....

I think the hardcover had the last 1/3 of the diaries in it. It was a good read even though it only took a few hours to finish.

I found the "The NEW Daily Adventures of Mixerman - The Second Coming" at Prosoundweb.com and read them before my book arrived. Now they've been deleted - "New diaires have been pulled. An explanation is forthcoming."

I'm looking forward to the second book - if there is going to be one.

There is almost no literature about the recording world, which makes it all the more enticing. I suspect however that the overindulgence, drugs and alcohol will likely prevent it from being made into prime-time TV anytime soon.

Still wonder who the book was written about though.....

 

[cawhite12]

I had a guy that I knew at school that I was sort of friends with that was a trumpet player. He taught some private lessons at a local junior high, and he wanted to come in and lay down some tracks of their honor band audition material, so that the kids could practice with it.

Besides having a horribly abrasive and splattered tone, he actually couldn't play the material very well either. (Imagine, a college music major that can't play junior high pieces, hmm....) After about 15 takes on this one excerpt, he looks at me and says:

"So we can probably piece together something from all those right?"

I'm thinking: "Ahhh Hell!"

 

[the tortoise]

In a post-production session, concerning a piece of music.

Producer: Hhhmmm, can we turn that sound upside down?

 

[jfrog]

Just finished Mixerman Diaries....


I suspect however that the overindulgence, drugs and alcohol will likely prevent it from being made into prime-time TV anytime soon.

.....

That's the only reason the networks would be interested in it!

 

[Signal 9 Studio]

Here is mine

I here this a lot and it always makes me chuckle....."Do we/I really sound like that?" Garbage in is Garbage out!

 

[NashBackslash]

For me, there's the usual things like,

"Can you change the snare sound to Korn's snare sound later?"

or,

"Can I just play the hihats and snares, and use MIDI to add in the kick drum later?"

A really silly one:

Dude is laying down his bass tracks. He insists on playing while standing up, in the control room, and very far back in the room. Like, REALLY FAR.

"Uh oh! I'm losing power, loosing power! *SIGH* I hate active bass guitars."

When they went to the chill out area for a coffee break, I took a close look at his bass. It was some cheapo entry-level Ibanez bass with scratches everywhere, teen-angst stickers plastered all over the fuckin' thing and a dodgy input jack with the wires sticking out and looks like it's really on its way out... losing power my ass!

And then there's the usual "can you make my voice sound nu metal like Mudvayne or Slipknot? A friend of mine told me if you can do that if you put my voice into the Metal Zone pedal."

Drummer enters control room to listen to his drum tracks. "Shit, why are my twin pedals so out of tempo!? I really can't believe this. We've played tons of gigs, always win 2nd place in band comps, sometimes chicks would come up to me telling me I'm the greatest drummer ever. I think your headphones are uncomfortable, man. Also the volume is too soft. I'm gonna re-record, turn the volume up, okay?"

That's all I can remember for now. I've may have heard more silly stuff though. I think I need to start a log of silly studio quotes.

 

[mikemorgan]

It's in my sig

It's in my sig

 

[Signal 9 Studio]

Just thought of one more. "I have to cup the mic to get my heavy vocals...so I would like to use my sure 58" Uh NO!