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| LoveHate |
Talk about a time you had a embarrasing moment or something just didnt go your way .
I just lost a nice chunk of money , booked a studio session , bounced all of my stems from fl studio , for the final mix down in logic , and i got 0 audio playback in a room full of people the levels were maxed out , all i had was the glue on the master channel!! I spent three hours bouncing my stems :( |
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| PaULiN0 |
| Yeah same here. I wonder what its like to mix in a neve hybrid console. :p |
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| LoveHate |
| quote: | Originally posted by clay
I've never been in a studio. |
2014 is the year i decided to take this beyond my bed room beyond my thoughts , im making moves , bouncing ideas with vocalist , and other creatives ,
I know i have atleast a few club hits on my hard drive , its just minor set backs like this that are holding me back. |
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| DJ RANN |
oh god. I have so many but they're really just part of studio life :nervous:
One bad one" I was the engineer on a drum/perc session with two very well known and respected drummers/perc players. We do a four hour session in prep for a film and the tracks were then going to be edited and used as bed tracks for some for the cues on a major animated film.
We finish up, going to come back in the morning and do more. I save the session on the external drive, having a conversation.
Then next morning show up, and one of the drummers go "let's have a quick listen to what we did last night".
Open Pro tools session.....and it's completely blank. Suddenly realized, that as my last action of the night before, I managed to record the blank template over session.
4+ hours of studio session gone. The cold sweat that runs through you when that happens can't be described. Thankfully they were all really good sports about it and we just started over.
Another time, I was fairly new (only been about a month in the hotseat) and we were recording cues for a popular TV series. It was a union gig so time is truly of the essence (15 mins over costs you $3k).
It usually takes about an hour or two to setup for the session, template created for how many musicians we have, mics arranged etc. As we're recording, the composer changes his mind on the arrangement so when we go to record, it just doesn't sound right.
1st engineer turns to me running protools and "says, can you park the sub groups to the aux bus and bounce back the sub master".
Being quite new to pro tools, the inside of my brain just imploded and I looked at him and just shook my head. He might as well have been speaking Farsi.
I got bounced from the chair right then and there in a room with about a dozen people in it and the more senior assistant had to take my place. Was OK though, he explained what he meant and it was more a case of not knowing the verbal shorthand they all used. Needless to say I never made that mistake again. |
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| Looney4Clooney |
90 people
trombones playing too high piano, 1 second into it , conductor da
looks at composer
looks at orchestrator
looks at me
i blame it on the other guy and tell them it would sound better with the oboes , dividi violas doubling that , and double it down for the trombones. in 5 seconds . They were like damn. i had no ing idea if it would work. it worked good enough.
that is a who the hired this guy mistake. Just doing the math in my head. that was about 2500 $ for the 5 minutes. Thank i was on adderall and i was on the ball and well confident. everyone was looking at this nobody. I mean assistants are nobodies. illegal even. so beat that. |
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| Looney4Clooney |
| although that time rann forgot to backup. well that could ruin your career too .POrobably wasn't a huge thing because they have checklists and . But ya. i mean imagine losing a real because you labelled it wrong. Um were the is the scene were we find out bruce willis is a ghost. lol ya. at that point , if you can't fake it , you tell everyone to off and make as big of a scene as you can because you are done . |
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| scorpradio |
Although I am sure you are meaning a recording studio I have a tale from the radio studio that I will never forget.
I was the closing on air guy one night back in the early 90's at a adult contemporary station in california. We used to get these cart discs from century 21 that had multiple genres on each disc but was used for promotional purposes.
On a a ad break I que'd up a particular r&b song and went into my on air station i.d.I hit the cart to the song and this blaring sound erupts...it was not the song I que'd and it was NOT r&b but rather the bullet boyz - smooth up in ya.
I freaked...and yelled "" only to look down and my mic light was still on. No sooner said the telephone started lighting up like a christmas tree...
Thank god it was late night and thank god my p.d. wasn't listening :D |
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| DJ RANN |
| quote: | Originally posted by scorpradio
Although I am sure you are meaning a recording studio I have a tale from the radio studio that I will never forget.
I was the closing on air guy one night back in the early 90's at a adult contemporary station in california. We used to get these cart discs from century 21 that had multiple genres on each disc but was used for promotional purposes.
On a a ad break I que'd up a particular r&b song and went into my on air station i.d.I hit the cart to the song and this blaring sound erupts...it was not the song I que'd and it was NOT r&b but rather the bullet boyz - smooth up in ya.
I freaked...and yelled "" only to look down and my mic light was still on. No sooner said the telephone started lighting up like a christmas tree...
Thank god it was late night and thank god my p.d. wasn't listening :D |
Lol, I love like that. I used to work in radio too back in london. We used to produce live radio segments for BBC and commercial stations.
It was a crafty business model to get brand mentions on public radion. Basically get a celeb (like a well known chef) and have them talk about some subject of interest (like a recent poll, or if it's pancake day etc) then they slip a brand mention in there. The slot is actually paid for by the brand.
One time, I have a well known australian chef in the studio and we're doing this thing on cocktails as it's something like National Cocktail Day.
He's making a cocktail each interview (got about 20 stations lined up) but the sounds, but he's also sipping on them. By about interview 11 he's getting there.
We do another interview, and the presenter is a miserable sod. Chef rallies through it and after it's over, chef goes "well, he was a miserabale cvnt wasn't he?"
I'm ing waving my arms through the glass like a guy with a broken down car on a railway crossing......
The ISDN line we use for connection to the station was still open.
Thank they had gone to commercial a second before so it wasn't broadcasted to about 1.5m people, but said miserable cvnt of a radio presenter gave Chef the earful of a lifetime during that break.
Nowhere to hide with live radio. |
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