One of my main gripes with this job (and there are a few) is the way we record. In the picture in the previous post, you can see a vocal booth in the background with an AKG C12 on a nice mic stand. From there it's going into an ssl j series and a bunch of outboard gear, and eventually you can listen on the augspurger mains, pro-ac's or ns10s. We'll call this a "real studio."
In the foreground is OUR vocal chain. U87ai going straight into an mbox. And we have a $200 pair of sennheiser headphones. At least it's a real room in this example. Just about every other time, I find myself having to decide which sounds better: a small untreated square room with bare walls or terrible ac hum and wind noise from a fan across the bed.
And what's worse is that there's nothing I can do about it because the talent just does not care about the sound. Which basically makes my job irrelevant. I can explain the situation and the acoustic problems that we'll have until I'm blue in the face, and they'll be duly noted and ignored.
Arghgghjhh
Wednesday, February 6, 2008
How We Roll: continued
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4 comments:
u have too many blogs and twitters and shit, get a hobby!!!!! like engineering ahahhahhahhhahh!!!!
I'll battle you punching busta to tape
How can your job be irrelevant? You are the mechanism that enables others to record and share their music with the world. Sure, the may not be to your aesthetic standards, but it's the customer's recording...if that's what they want, that's what they get.
First off, it's kind of crazy that there's someone in seattle reading this blog, but I guess that's the magic of the interwebs. When I said my job is irrelevant, I more so meant that my skills and judgement are irrelevant. Of course I'm still the one pushing the buttons, but at times that where it ends. I'd like to think I have more use than that.
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