And now what did you do TODAY?

[Aura]

Awesome Carl!

Got all touristy in Manila today. Went to Intramuros and walked through all of San Agustin Church and most of Fort Santiago. The church was really interesting and had some fantastically tropical courtyards. The fort was pretty boring and it was getting hot as shit as the haze started breaking up.

Tonight I'm drinking and going to a casino with my manager. Huzzah!

[agile_one]

Awesome payoff news, Carl & Bonnie.  Congrats.

 

Sounds like a swell time in Manila, Bryan.

[shellylh]

Very big win, Carl!

[n_maher]

Awesome payoff news, Carl & Bonnie. Congrats.

Sounds like a swell time in Manila, Bryan.

This. Some day I won't have a mortgage. That'll be like 2040

[guzziguy]

Very big win, Carl!

 

This.

 

Hope you get a big win too, Bryan.

[acidbasement]

Congrats, Carl!  Have fun, Bryan.

 

I've got one more White Album concert to perform tonight.  The last two have been great, and all three were/are sold out (280 tickets or so each night).  We've been working on it and obsessively listening to it since the fall - kinda bittersweet to have it finish, but the afterparty should be a good time.

[Absorbine_Sr]

Congrats, Carl! Have fun, Bryan.

I've got one more White Album concert to perform tonight. The last two have been great, and all three were/are sold out (280 tickets or so each night). We've been working on it and obsessively listening to it since the fall - kinda bittersweet to have it finish, but the afterparty should be a good time.

Is any of this being recorded? Would love to hear it.

[Dreadhead]

Today I found out that our house guests / friends are good friends with Capital Cities. Like slept in her apartment when touring. Pretty cool.

[acidbasement]

Is any of this being recorded? Would love to hear it.

 

I'll see if we can get something recorded tonight.  Maybe a minidisc with a stereo mic for the room, and another one with a line coming off the board, to be mixed together later.  It wouldn't be stupendous audio quality, mainly due to limitations of a smallish room with a high ceiling and some electrical issues.

[Absorbine_Sr]

I'd still be interested and suspect others would as well.

[skullguise]

Yes, I want to hear your Liverpool accent 

[Audiojunkie]

Paid off my mortgage.

Congrats! I paid mine off late last year and life is great without that stupid thing over my head! 

[Voltron]

Congrat Carl and Bonnie and congrat to you too Junkie!

[acidbasement]

I failed on the recording - too much rushing about beforehand.  We're doing it again in October, and it should be a better-sounding room, so I'll cook something up then.

[grawk]

Infenestration?

 

Glad to know Reaper is working well for you, Ironbut.  I'm hoping to really learn how to mic my drums well.  There's a small community hall near where I live that can be rented for nearly nothing, and it would be a great room to get that big drum sound (like what Steve Albini squeezed out of Dave Grohl's drums on In Utero).  My mics may limit me, but I can borrow from friends or rent if need be.

http://www.gearslutz.com/board/new-product-alert/849933-my-new-book-recording-drums-complete-guide.html

 

That just came up on gearslutz, thought you might be interested

[ironbut]

There are tons of videos on YouTube about recording drums. Watch a bunch to see what other folks do. You may not agree with what they consider to be a great drum sound but the mechanics are what you should take out of them.

Also, you should be aware that many "huge" drum tracks aren't produced during the recording end of things. That's the mixing engineer's job in many cases. How "big" the drums sound has to be in context of the song and the rest of the tracks.

Techniques like parallel compression, mixing in samples or sidechaining low frequency oscillator pulses are common practice to make drums sound larger than life and while many can be added during live performances, getting them to sound subtle and fitting perfectly in the mix is an art.

So, if you wish to emulate the sound you hear on a record, it may not be possible no matter what room, drums or microphone you use. But of course, that doesn't mean you shouldn't try!

[grawk]

or just replace the drummer with an 808

[acidbasement]

http://www.gearslutz.com/board/new-product-alert/849933-my-new-book-recording-drums-complete-guide.html

 

That just came up on gearslutz, thought you might be interested

 

Thanks, I'm going to check that out!

 

There are tons of videos on YouTube about recording drums. Watch a bunch to see what other folks do. You may not agree with what they consider to be a great drum sound but the mechanics are what you should take out of them.

Also, you should be aware that many "huge" drum tracks aren't produced during the recording end of things. That's the mixing engineer's job in many cases. How "big" the drums sound has to be in context of the song and the rest of the tracks.

Techniques like parallel compression, mixing in samples or sidechaining low frequency oscillator pulses are common practice to make drums sound larger than life and while many can be added during live performances, getting them to sound subtle and fitting perfectly in the mix is an art.

So, if you wish to emulate the sound you hear on a record, it may not be possible no matter what room, drums or microphone you use. But of course, that doesn't mean you shouldn't try!

 

Yeah, philosophically I'd prefer to keep it as simple as possible, post-processing-wise, but that would probably also require much more expensive mics than I currently own.

 

or just replace the drummer with an 808

 

[grawk]

ok, the 'drummer' in logic x

[Sherwood]

or just replace the drummer with an 808

 

 heartbreak

[n_maher]

Not today but last Wednesday night was a rough night.  At 1am we were awoken by the phone ringing, never a good thing.  So we launched out of bed and my wife answered the phone only to find that it was a wrong number.  Give me a break.  At 2am Andrew woke up and needed to be briefly settled before falling back asleep.  Ok, ok, it happens and I comforted myself with the idea that I could still get 3hrs + of uniterrupted sleep if I was lucky.  Luck was not with me.  At 3am I awoke to the sound of a bat in our attic.  Shit.  It happens and the normal course of action is to put in a set of earplugs and go back to sleep.  But I dozed off again quickly but then awoke to a strange noise.  Now in order to fully appreciate the following you need to know that our alarm clock is somewhat obnoxiously bright and blue and puts out a pretty eerie glow under good circumstances.  Factor in that when I opened my eyes in addition to the normal blue fog I saw a winged spawn of Satan circling my ceiling fan.  The FUCK?!?!  My wife, for all her wonderful qualities, will launch 10 feet in the air if she sees a mouse.  I did not wish to find out what would happen if she woke up to a bat flying at her.  So I attempted to calmly wake her up, instructed her to get on the floor and make her way to the door.  Once that was accomplished and she was safely shut in with Lily in her room I went about the business of getting rid of the bat.  It was thankfully easy.  It flew into a window where I was able to pop the screen and set it free.  We called a specialist the next day and their coming next week to bat-proof the house. 

 

Sleep has been fitful since that night with frequent incidents of additional noise in the attic and we were all feeling like we had life pretty bad until we talked to our next door neighboor last night.  He's killed 9, fucking NINE, bats in his house in the last week.  I believe that Maura put it best, "We would have moved."  I had a stronger reaction, suggesting that torching the place might be in order.  Thankfully last night yielded better, noise free sleep.

[Voltron]

Wow, that sucks. Are you sure you weren't bitten? Do you have an urge to hang upside down while eating?

[blessingx]

... or to save Gotham City?

Edited August 13, 2013 by blessingx

[Dreadhead]

Sorry that happened Nate. My wife would have lost it.

[Dusty Chalk]

Yeezh.

 

On the one hand, I like bats, because they eat bugs, especially mosquitoes.  But on the other, I wouldn't want them on my ceiling neither -- in a nearby cave is plenty close enough.  Aren't they literally rats with wings?  And yet, that is usually reserved for pigeons.

 

Okay, here's a silver lining for you:  at least it wasn't a pigeon.