A sunny day in Brooklyn

With Cale.

Heading Home

REPORTING: #EDWIN PHENIX
LOCATION: Big Apple - Astoria
PROJECT: #feedcale
DATE: 4/17/13


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It's been a while since I've been back to my FLA Studio, and on my way down I decided to bring my friend Cale Wier, who is a homeboy from Wisconson. Cale and Kevin Fever go way back, used to by in the US Air Force before Kevin ran away into the woods as a concientious objector. Brought Cale up to Queens to stay in Astoria, while I met up with my second Mother Lido to do some producion and vocals on her live set at the Bossa Nova Civic Club. Isa GT was hosting the night along with some of the Maracuyeah DJ's from DC who were fantastic. After a long day of travels we arrived back at our apartment from the Bossa Nova which was in Brooklyn, to retire and regroup. Today I loom forward to reconvening with Didi C'oola and the Moon King Bros in McCarren Park in Brooklyn, hoping we can talk about bringing the band back together for Kevin. It's a long shot, but could just very well happen.

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MORE FEEDING BACK

cO-WORk FEEDBACK:

RE: Live Jazz

Although not incredibly original, it is always soothing to listen to some traditional jazz. In this dimly lit small club, this band is banging away while the bar is pouring taps in the background. Although the hand held camera focused mostly on the keyboard player, who I suppose is the leader of the trio, the bass player was doing some great handywork, which an interesting pan over to his fingers demonstrates. Unfortunately it was evident that the cameraman was interfering with the band at moments, we got a good impression of the feel of the night. I felt the keys sounded a little muffled and were lost sometimes amidst the drums. There could have been a little more seperation between the stand up bass and low toms as well. As it turns out the keys and bass were only captured by the room mics, which explains the lack of seperation. A great performance none the less!

RE:Recorded Jazz

Now this mix is great. Traditional in many aspects, but all the peices were present. Eli and Jesse were the ones who mixed it. I felt the drums were even a little be TOO present. Stand up was perfect in tone and mix, punch and boomy in a great way. The ride again was a little to high in the mix, but snare and an almost perfect level. Piano was places very well.

RE: Listening to our groups mixes on another system. The 1.5 - 3 k range seemed to stand out like a sore thumb, although in the mixing room it did not seem so. Another example of how mixes vary across systems and why it is important not to simply rely on one set of monitors for mixing. The energy of the recordings did indeed prespire fortunately and that is what was the most important to get across. Great songwriting translates absolutely.

Feeeding Back

These are my reactions to some of my co-workers works:



RE: PHAT AS PHUCK

I found that within the 5.1 mix the drums were really a secondary thought. Although the horns are the feature of the band, including Tom the trumpet player who I've worked with in the past, it is important to have that backbeat pulsing. They themselves will admit that the drums are lost in the mix. The video could have used some enhancement, or possibly been rendered to black and white, as the room itself was not the most interesting in terms of set or lighting. The stereo mix I found a little to boomy, perhaps because of the sub's resonance in the room we were listening back to. The horns had lost a lot of their body, as many mixing engineers tend to drop that out. However, knowing horn players, the prefer not to have their horns sound like midi horns and prefer to keep the low mids natural. You can get the same punch with a boost in the highs if it is your goal to have them punch through. Despite these mixing issues I was very glad to hear the band in its new incarnation, as I had heard and played with its predecessor CTRL+ALT+DANCE in the past.

RE: 3 CARS BAND

I wasn't too thrilled with this band. Performing at CMW, they seemed to be pretty run of the mill standard funk rock. With a solo just a little bit too long for enjoyment. The mix was a good representation of the music, however it's too bad they gave such a good treatment to such an unoriginal band. It is strange to me that people can get into creating textures and writing songs that sound like those of hundreds and hundreds of others, not even attempting to push music further than it has before.

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