Tuesday, December 4, 2012
Another case of the Shakin' Natives
REPORTING: #EDWINPHENIX
LOCATION: #KEVINFEVER STUDIOS FLA
PROJECT: GINGER GREY
DATE: 25/12/12
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BEGIN: REPORT
Brought the Shakin' Natives session files back home and started to work on them in Pro Tools. Agents Dan and Nicole had already started some basic compression and gating of the tracks, which was a nice and simple point to start working from. I tweaked some of the compression ratios, used some other compressors such as waves Vcomp and some VEQ's for different tracks. I decided to put some blanket overdrive on all the vocals, to give it that rugged lo-fi sound it needed. Dan later listened to the mix and thought they were a little too crunchy, but it was a good aesthetic. I used STOMP II plugin for this. I put a vintage filter on the drums - besides the kick - in order to get some fat and gritty sound. Also, I put a sub bass booster on the kick [Waves Rbass] to have a concentrated boost in the 80 Hz frequency. I parallel compressed the drums and kept the compression relatively low in the mix, because this sound shouldn't be too compressed, although a pop tune it is still pretty lo-fi. I think the result was a nice and punchy grunge sound, rather than a shimmery bright over produced sound which is not what I think the band is going for. I'd like to bring them down to my studio to redo some of the vocals in the future. I see some great potential in these young lads and would like to set them up with some other fitting acts to play some shows.
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A Case of the Shakin' Natives
Ginger Grey
REPORTING: #EDWINPHENIX
LOCATION: MULTITRACK
PROJECT: GINGER GREY
DATE: 23/12/12
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BEGIN: REPORT
Came up on a Saturday to record Agent Nicoles brother's band "Shakin' Natives". They're young and sound like a mix between Tame Impala and the Pixies. Their vocals are not fully matured but for the most part they sound great. They recorded the song "String Me Along" which is sure to be a hit, as it is catchy and has a simple chorus. The coles weren't used as overheads for this session. They used 57's on the amps and d112 on the kick, NT5's for the over heads. This gave them an overall brighter sound which I found unnecessary.
LOCATION: MULTITRACK
PROJECT: GINGER GREY
DATE: 23/12/12
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BEGIN: REPORT
Came up on a Saturday to record Agent Nicoles brother's band "Shakin' Natives". They're young and sound like a mix between Tame Impala and the Pixies. Their vocals are not fully matured but for the most part they sound great. They recorded the song "String Me Along" which is sure to be a hit, as it is catchy and has a simple chorus. The coles weren't used as overheads for this session. They used 57's on the amps and d112 on the kick, NT5's for the over heads. This gave them an overall brighter sound which I found unnecessary.
Agent Dan gave me a universal serial bus with the information, which I would take and mix the following monday.
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END REPORT
Ginger Grey
REPORTING: #EDWINPHENIX
LOCATION: MULTITRACK
PROJECT: GINGER GREY
DATE: 01/12/12
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BEGIN: REPORT
Came up from my swampy Floridian abode to accompany Dan Duquette and Max in their recording session with the family band Ginger Grey. The old 90's chorus guitar sound was swelling out of the control room. She was singing and he was drumming.
The used two coles ribbons facing inwards to stereo mic the drums - closer together than I thought they should be, but when I asked why they said they were trying it out. Seems to me like they may have to deal with phase issues. They recorded vocals live off the floor with the SM7 then went back and redubbed them with the TLM103 - for added frequency response. Guitar amp was isolated by paneling and mic'd up with two 57's, one on center for brightness and one off axis for a more deadened sound.
The tracks we're sounding hot, as far as I could tell. I got the session files and went home to my backwoods Florida studio to mix.
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END REPORT
LOCATION: MULTITRACK
PROJECT: GINGER GREY
DATE: 01/12/12
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BEGIN: REPORT
Came up from my swampy Floridian abode to accompany Dan Duquette and Max in their recording session with the family band Ginger Grey. The old 90's chorus guitar sound was swelling out of the control room. She was singing and he was drumming.
The used two coles ribbons facing inwards to stereo mic the drums - closer together than I thought they should be, but when I asked why they said they were trying it out. Seems to me like they may have to deal with phase issues. They recorded vocals live off the floor with the SM7 then went back and redubbed them with the TLM103 - for added frequency response. Guitar amp was isolated by paneling and mic'd up with two 57's, one on center for brightness and one off axis for a more deadened sound.
The tracks we're sounding hot, as far as I could tell. I got the session files and went home to my backwoods Florida studio to mix.
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END REPORT
Thursday, November 22, 2012
REPORTING FROM THE FOLEY ROOM
Agent #EDWINPHENIX Reporting
Location: Foley Studio
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Agents Dan and Nicole went into the studio this past Saturday to record Nicoles brothers band. They will be passing me the files to do a mix at my studio in the United States. I have trouble making amends with the fact that I am mixing a Canadian export, but they will bring in revenue to the States when they move here after becoming all-stars in America.
I will take their PTF Pro Tools 9 files and mix them in PTX. This will give me some extra tools to make it sound as true to their American rock and soul core as possible. They are looking to acheive a Pixies / Tame Impala sound. I'll throw some reverb on and try to get it to be as lo-fi as possible with some tape distortion and exciter processors, and as little compression as possible.
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Report back from the lab tests Tuesday. As much as I hate coming over the border to Canada to do these things, I came over to Ryerson and did some overdubs for "The Twilight Zone" with talent Kevin Kevin Konarzewski. I was rushed after being held up at customs and so forgot to check that the VU level was appropriate on his vocal, AND forgot to put EQ on his initial VO record channel and forgot to compress it AT ALL. Although his voice was recorded pretty evenly and didn't necessarily need compression, it could have been a bad thing if it had needed it. I did edit out some unrelated speech beforehand, and used his second playlist.
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#EDWINPHENIX Signing out.
22/11/2012
Location: Foley Studio
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Agents Dan and Nicole went into the studio this past Saturday to record Nicoles brothers band. They will be passing me the files to do a mix at my studio in the United States. I have trouble making amends with the fact that I am mixing a Canadian export, but they will bring in revenue to the States when they move here after becoming all-stars in America.
I will take their PTF Pro Tools 9 files and mix them in PTX. This will give me some extra tools to make it sound as true to their American rock and soul core as possible. They are looking to acheive a Pixies / Tame Impala sound. I'll throw some reverb on and try to get it to be as lo-fi as possible with some tape distortion and exciter processors, and as little compression as possible.
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Report back from the lab tests Tuesday. As much as I hate coming over the border to Canada to do these things, I came over to Ryerson and did some overdubs for "The Twilight Zone" with talent Kevin Kevin Konarzewski. I was rushed after being held up at customs and so forgot to check that the VU level was appropriate on his vocal, AND forgot to put EQ on his initial VO record channel and forgot to compress it AT ALL. Although his voice was recorded pretty evenly and didn't necessarily need compression, it could have been a bad thing if it had needed it. I did edit out some unrelated speech beforehand, and used his second playlist.
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#EDWINPHENIX Signing out.
22/11/2012
Thursday, November 8, 2012
Saving Private Wilson
Admiral Hanks Forwarded me the following report :
BEGIN FWD :
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Issued by : Admiral Hanks
Location : The Foley Studio
Date : 04 | 11 | 2012
Equipment : Rode Shotgun, Large Diaphragm Condenser TBD, H1 Handy Recorder Misc SFX materials
Some people thought I was crazy to run this mission - to try and get Wilson, this volleyball - back from the Krauts. Not crazy at all I would say. When we first simulated it before running the mission, we used pasta dropping into a cookie tin to recreate the sound of our machine guns. We used a handy recorder to get the sound of enemy shots, tuned them down in protools and reversed them to get an underwater effect.
> Internal Dialogue of other soldiers was introduced for 'Dramatic Effect'
Privates Madison, Sara and Leosh added rain sounds and splashes using various rustling materials.
> Information was taken from existing banks of audio to enhance the simualation of the battlefield - explosions, heavy breathing for the soldiers.
All in all we are prepared for the real deal - and we will find Private WILSON.
"I'll see you on the beach" - Admiral Hanks
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#EDWINPHENIX
Monday, November 5, 2012
REPORTING FROM THE JUNGLES OF SAN FRANCISCO
REPORTING
- On the path to dub this audio for Agent Finlay
> Made a stop at the crime scene of Lieutenant Douglas Hayes
There seem to have been several murders committed by some 'Cannibal Vixens' who are apparently from Pluto. What an insignificant ball of ice.
> But will this be our final case? I don't think so - it seems we may have to go " Into the Wild " of the Foley studio tonight to get the real meat we want for this audio dub.
"But tell me four-eyes, are they capable of love" - D.H.
Mulligan got us hot on the case of this man who decided to go live in the woods - seems he may have died out there... Mysterious, and slightly less unbeleivable than the ' Vixens '.
> He gave us authorization to rent the following tools as well, to assist with our Foley mission:
an AKG 414
Rode NT5's
2 SM57's
one SM7
and finally an APEX 210 and Neumann TLM 103
I just hope these tools will suffice - otherwise we could fall prey to the wild - I'm already getting a fever.
OVER AND OUT
#EDWINPHENIX
- On the path to dub this audio for Agent Finlay
> Made a stop at the crime scene of Lieutenant Douglas Hayes
There seem to have been several murders committed by some 'Cannibal Vixens' who are apparently from Pluto. What an insignificant ball of ice.
> But will this be our final case? I don't think so - it seems we may have to go " Into the Wild " of the Foley studio tonight to get the real meat we want for this audio dub.
"But tell me four-eyes, are they capable of love" - D.H.
Mulligan got us hot on the case of this man who decided to go live in the woods - seems he may have died out there... Mysterious, and slightly less unbeleivable than the ' Vixens '.
> He gave us authorization to rent the following tools as well, to assist with our Foley mission:
an AKG 414
Rode NT5's
2 SM57's
one SM7
and finally an APEX 210 and Neumann TLM 103
I just hope these tools will suffice - otherwise we could fall prey to the wild - I'm already getting a fever.
OVER AND OUT
#EDWINPHENIX
Tuesday, August 14, 2012
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