Blow this Shhhhh Up
Hey there,
Day 2, crankin away. Very productive and diverse day, until......... I blew an ADAM subwoofer. OK, so ya'll know i love my Event Speakers. Well, it just wasnt feasible to get them over to London to mix, and this studio has ADAM nearfileds with a sub, which are SUPPOSED TO BE some pretty amazing speakers. Now, i like em alot, gotta say, but i still think i like my system (which cost me about one quarter the amount of these speakers) better. AND, i have pounded my subwoofer for 3 years now and it never flinches, this one blew on day 2!!! Maybe I'll contact event tomorrow morning and see if they can get me some loaners over here.
Anyway, I've been playing dozens of Beats for Edro (the artist) yesterday and today, from several different producers including myself. He's chosen 2 of mine, and 3 others. Playing him more beats tomorrow. Gotta make the hottest record we can possibly make. I've already mixed 2 songs that were recorded before i got here, both came out red hot. So, we are actually a little bit outside of London, in the suburbs. things close here at 11pm. That sucks. I'm not used to that at all. We had a great dinner tonight, the exec producer cooked up some slammin chicken and veggies on the grill, mmmmmmmmm...... but man, i just wanna walk to the corner store and browse. habit i guess. In New York City you can get a gormet French meal at 4am if you want it, AND they'll deliver it. Hell, you can get a candy bar delivered to the studio at 2am in new york if you want, but you'd better tip them well!! i do. Delivery people love me, and for good reason, i used to be one of them. When i was younger i had all sorts of interesting jobs, pizza delivery guy (literally almost died my first night on the job), fast food (arby's), i worked at a big wave pool in food service, worked at a convenient store, did every kind of odd job you can think of. I held 3 jobs when i was 17 years old. forshadowing?
Probably the most important job i ever had was working for Allied Van Lines. They are a moving company and for 2 summers during college break. I worked 12 hours my first day in blistering heat, came home and collapsed, slept for 12 hours, woke up and did it again, and again, 5 to 6 days a week, all summer for 2 summers, moving people into and out of their homes. It was GRUELING work, for little pay. And it taught me one extremely valuable lesson....... I had better become the best god damn mix engineer, producer, musician, etc.... that i can possibly be, because i do NOT want to do that for the rest of my life. I am very glad i learned that lesson young and learned it well. That job is honestly the most important one i've ever had, i would not be here today had i not gone thru it.
Anyway, back to the job at hand, gotta get going and wrap it up for the night. Brent just handed me a Vodka and Cranberry juice (its all we have) to wind down, sleeping has been very difficult so far with the time change. hopefully this will help knock me out so i'm fresh tomorrow. so theres my drinking excuse :-) sessions over, time to enjoy myself. good night, see you tomorrow
-Ken
Day 2, crankin away. Very productive and diverse day, until......... I blew an ADAM subwoofer. OK, so ya'll know i love my Event Speakers. Well, it just wasnt feasible to get them over to London to mix, and this studio has ADAM nearfileds with a sub, which are SUPPOSED TO BE some pretty amazing speakers. Now, i like em alot, gotta say, but i still think i like my system (which cost me about one quarter the amount of these speakers) better. AND, i have pounded my subwoofer for 3 years now and it never flinches, this one blew on day 2!!! Maybe I'll contact event tomorrow morning and see if they can get me some loaners over here.
Anyway, I've been playing dozens of Beats for Edro (the artist) yesterday and today, from several different producers including myself. He's chosen 2 of mine, and 3 others. Playing him more beats tomorrow. Gotta make the hottest record we can possibly make. I've already mixed 2 songs that were recorded before i got here, both came out red hot. So, we are actually a little bit outside of London, in the suburbs. things close here at 11pm. That sucks. I'm not used to that at all. We had a great dinner tonight, the exec producer cooked up some slammin chicken and veggies on the grill, mmmmmmmmm...... but man, i just wanna walk to the corner store and browse. habit i guess. In New York City you can get a gormet French meal at 4am if you want it, AND they'll deliver it. Hell, you can get a candy bar delivered to the studio at 2am in new york if you want, but you'd better tip them well!! i do. Delivery people love me, and for good reason, i used to be one of them. When i was younger i had all sorts of interesting jobs, pizza delivery guy (literally almost died my first night on the job), fast food (arby's), i worked at a big wave pool in food service, worked at a convenient store, did every kind of odd job you can think of. I held 3 jobs when i was 17 years old. forshadowing?
Probably the most important job i ever had was working for Allied Van Lines. They are a moving company and for 2 summers during college break. I worked 12 hours my first day in blistering heat, came home and collapsed, slept for 12 hours, woke up and did it again, and again, 5 to 6 days a week, all summer for 2 summers, moving people into and out of their homes. It was GRUELING work, for little pay. And it taught me one extremely valuable lesson....... I had better become the best god damn mix engineer, producer, musician, etc.... that i can possibly be, because i do NOT want to do that for the rest of my life. I am very glad i learned that lesson young and learned it well. That job is honestly the most important one i've ever had, i would not be here today had i not gone thru it.
Anyway, back to the job at hand, gotta get going and wrap it up for the night. Brent just handed me a Vodka and Cranberry juice (its all we have) to wind down, sleeping has been very difficult so far with the time change. hopefully this will help knock me out so i'm fresh tomorrow. so theres my drinking excuse :-) sessions over, time to enjoy myself. good night, see you tomorrow
-Ken
posted by Protools Mixing at 3:49 AM
2 Comments:
ok ken have a good night too .thanks for advices ...
I'm going to assume Adam is an ultra high end company, cause i've never heard of it. Thats generally how it works.
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