A BIZZARH DISSAPOINTMENT

EDWIN PHENIX BLOG

REPORTING: #EDWINPHENIX

LOCATION: CRAWL

PROJECT: A Bizzarh Dissapointment

DATE: 4/8/13

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A Bizzarh dissapointment. So, originally I was going to record the full length La Papessa album with Lido, which is still going to happen, however, for the purposes of this project and the constraints on her availability made this ficticious deadline even more of an illusion than it already was. Si my second plan was to record a split release of 2 if the upcoming Papessa demo tracks and two tracks I had arrange for the R&B duo Bizzarh. I areanged for a session with them last week, but they were no shows! I still haven't heard from them. At least if people aren't available, they should be honest about it. A lesson about this failed session is that communication is key. Even Steve Ward a touring musician who doubles as a phenomenal chef was able to be present for our session this past weekend. Anyways, U have the instrumentals sitting around and perhaps will get Lido to work on them if Bizzarh do not get back to me. They are truly as strange as they sound! They are very talented and I hope to continue working with them in the future, provided there is better communnication.

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A Bizzarh dissapointment. So, originally I was going to record the full length La Papessa album with Lido, which is still going to happen, however, for the purposes of this project and the constraints on her availability made this ficticious deadline even more of an illusion than it already was. Si my second plan was to record a split release of 2 if the upcoming Papessa demo tracks and two tracks I had arrange for the R&B duo Bizzarh. I areanged for a session with them last week, but they were no shows! I still haven't heard from them. At least if people aren't available, they should be honest about it. A lesson about this failed session is that communication is key. Even Steve Ward a touring musician who doubles as a phenomenal chef was able to be present for our session this past weekend. Anyways, U have the instrumentals sitting around and perhaps will get Lido to work on them if Bizzarh do not get back to me. They are truly as strange as they sound! They are very talented and I hope to continue working with them in the future, provided there is better communnication.

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LIDO MIX

EDWIN PHENIX BLOG

REPORTING: #EDWINPHENIX

LOCATION: CRAWL

PROJECT: Mixing Lido

DATE: 4/8/13

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Mixing the tracks I was able to capture with Lido's limited amount of time  [her being a full time student and mother] was vastly different from the Lost Babies. Although the tracks contain some raw elements that I threw into the composition process, it is not a compact tight and dirty grunge band, but rather I strove to create a both massive and present sound with the samples, voice and horn. Ruleta being a more straightforward track was certainly the easiest to mix, and came together quite well. There will be a little bit more to add to it, but not much - in fact there will most likely be much to cut away! Of course only some of these vocal takes are keepers, but for the purpose of this short 3 song EP of the upcoming album ' La Papessa ' this summer, it is a great performance. Lido's dynamic range is a tough beast to handle, but get some good AKG's on it with decent preamps and it sounds incredibly powerful. More thoughts soon.

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Lost Babies Mixing

EDWIN PHENIX BLOG

REPORTING: #EDWINPHENIX

LOCATION: UNKNOWN

PROJECT: LOST BABIES MIX

DATE: 4/8/13

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The Lost Babies were a great choice to mix, well rehearsed and sounded great off the floor. Although they weren't able to bring Mamoru's guitar amp, we were fortunate enough to get a good sound out of the resident fender using Mamoru's guitar amp. I did mixes of Tell Me Why and Snake Charmer using cakewalk as my protools rig seems to have permanently crashed and no forums or re-installs can help me fix it. Something to do with loading plug-in settings from other playlists. When I brought my mixes in to compare with Jacob and Stacey's it seemed as though I intentionally took a more dirty approach to the mixing, knowing the bands live sound and vying for a good representation of that. I really enjoyed Stacey's mixes and I hope the band really takes to her work. Mamoru still has some more guitar work to do, and we will continue to mix these tracks after handing in these first mixes. Unfortunately arbitrary timelines given by school are not realistic enough to give those of us mixing for the band and not the project satisfying mix results. It takes time and necessitates sitting on the mixes for more than a week or two, and getting direction and feedback from the band themselves. I really liked the kick sound Stacey was able to pull out of the muddy mix.

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Lido Session!

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REPORTING: #EDWINPHENIX

LOCATION: UNKNOWN

PROJECT: Lido Pimienta

DATE: 4/7/13

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Putting in the hours. After spending some time preparing all the samples for the track, we finally got together for a proper long session. Along with Lido, I had the pleasure of recording the distinguished Steve Ward of Friendly Rich and the Lollypop People and Caribou on Trombone. Unfortunately due to all the equipment being booked out, I had to simply use my AKG C14 which is a step down from the 414 I had hoped to use. All these tracks were totally new to Steve, but as he is a quite creative and talented lad we were able to bang out the tracks and a series of lines, to later be refined in the future. I was able to get a good sound with the sound devices preamp, which I've used for several projects now open reccomendation of a trusted colleague. More updates to come!

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STAFF REPORT x REMIXERLOU [HARMONIUS TRIBE]

STAFF REPORT

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Eli, Jacob and I met in the 5.1 mixing studio to work on the Von Krippon live mixdown. After a satisfying mix was acheived [minus the standing wave which was indesctructable] We bounced the stems down to our 6 5.1 mono stems. I have never mixed in 5.1 before and it was an interesting process to go through. Now came the hard part. Because none of us have ever used compressor, Final Cut or DVD maker pro we had to trudge our way through the commands not knowing anything. The most tedious was syncing our live audio to the non - timecode high quality DSLR footage that our friend was gracious enough to take, as all the camera equipment was inevitably booked for the weekend.  However, this was not the most disturbing part of the experience. What was, was compressor. For whatever reason compressor does not let you choose the directory it dumps files into, or intuitively show you the progress bar. You must open as separate program in order to see that progress, which took a while to find, and in the meantime searching directories for files that had not yet been created but had seemingly been created instantly was quite frustrating. Finally we got everything into DVD maker pro, made a menu and all, and of course, the program claimed that the DVD was not formatted properly. OH THE HUMANITY.

Currently working on the Lost Babies mixes at my FLA studio.

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EDWIN PHENIX

My co-engineer from the Harmonius Tribe situated on the magical Island which houses 'Mt. Lava-Lula'. Quite a talented young lad I might say.

REMIXERLOU [HARMONIUS TRIBE]

LOST IN COMBAT

EDWIN PHENIX BLOG

REPORTING: #EDWINPHENIX

LOCATION: UNKNOWN

PROJECT: LOST BABIES of VON KRIPPON

DATE: 3/4/13

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Lost in combat. Unfortunately I was unable to attend the BDC scouting mission of the various studios, including CBC which I would have really been interested to see. I have been to Revolution Recordings before to investigate their patching for a training program with RP DYNAMICS, wherein I went to the studio and was shown the restored Neve consoles, and their whole dedicated Revolution Recording hardware creation studio, which really interested me. Having your own gear being patented on site is something that I think seldom exists within these audio complexes. 

However, the reason I was unable to attend was due to a dress rehearsal for a dance piece I have been sound designing for since late last year. Henry has read about this piece in my essay, and as he knows working with dancers and choreographers is a time consuming process. Even up until opening night of the show I was being asked to update the mix. Now, people are only human and can only do so much, so I had to be realistic with her and do only as much as I could. As I was working after four I had to send the updated mix as a high quality mp3 over the internet, but due to the lack of professional work world flexibility, the student Head of Audio refused to simply swap the 1 cue file in the program for the show. Alas, such is working in a school environment, fictitious deadlines, rushed artistic work, overbooked facilities and so on and so forth. At least we're young and have plenty of time to work off our infinite debt while being distracted from fundamental societal injustices induced by the corporate state. 

Anyways, I look forward to our session tomorrow mixing Von Krippon in 5.1, and mixing the Lost Babies session from Monday night which went incredibly well. I have had a very hard time getting the gear I need for the times when my talent is available for my independent project, but am trying to power through these obstacles to my best ability. The play I am designing for on the contrary has gone incredibly well, and I can't wait to remount it in the real world!

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