AES Day 1 and other interesting news
A few very interesting things are happening here lately, most are over the top good, some are pretty fucked up. Actually just one. This industry never ceases to amaze me how some people attempt to conduct business. Of course the vast majority of those types of people have fairly short careers, and well, I've been making major label albums for almost 15 years which might tell you something about me as a person. I'll keep you posted on all of the above in the days to come, and I'll just leave you with this. Your word and your honor are everything. If you don't stand by them, then who are you?
The Edro album continues to go amazingly well. I have very high expectations for this album. We wrote and recorded a couple new songs earlier this past week, and got alot of excellent keeper vocals recorded. I'm starting a rock album mix next week with a long time client. I'm really looking forward to mixing it.
The AES Convention started today, thats the Audio Engineering Society Convention in New york City (basically a convention for studio geeks), so of course i was there. Early on, I hooked up with my friend and Tech Editor of Scratch Magazine, Noah Rubin, and my super talented engineer friend Ryan West, and we hit the WAVES booth for a personal demo of WAVES new "De-Breather". Yup, somebody actually made a plugin specifically to remove only breaths and nothing else. It works amazingly well. WAVES also has a new vocal tuning plugin, which is very similar to Melodyne, only it seems much quicker and easier to use than Melodyne. Its not a real time plugin like Autotune is, but it seems pretty fast and is far more powerful. Finally, WAVES has a guitar amp simulator thats very impressive, with a very impressive $1200 price tag to match. Just a thought, $1200 seems really steep for any amp modeling plugin, even a good one.
The other item currently catching my eye is the brainchild of Chris Muth, a gear guru who has designed and built many of the mastering desks for the top mastering engineers in New York and elseware. When i heard he built an Analog Summing Box for digital mixing, i was all over it. Chris is a really nice guy, and his gear is wonderful (DangerousMusic.com). I also had a long talk with Bob Clearmountain today. Always such a wonderful guy to talk to. He has made so many landmark albums and he's still so down to Earth. I also talked at length with Anthony DeMaria (ADL Compressors) who was hanging at the PreSonus Booth. I ran into an old friend from Nashville who used to manage Emerald Sound and now manages George Massenburg's new studio in Nashville, which is ultra cool. I've always loved recording in Emerald's gem of a studio "The Tracking Room". It sounds amazing. I'm betting Massenburg's new place will sound great too.
Tomorrow (Saturday), i hope to steal a few more hours away from working to hit AES again and see everything i missed today, as well as hit the Apple/Logic reception. I got to meet the Logic guru who's been my lifeline for the last several months. Whenever i have a technical issue that I cant figure out with Logic, she's always found the answers for me somehow. There are a few other things tomorrow on my "gotta check out" list. Sunday will be a VERY big day for me. More on that later.
- Ken
The Edro album continues to go amazingly well. I have very high expectations for this album. We wrote and recorded a couple new songs earlier this past week, and got alot of excellent keeper vocals recorded. I'm starting a rock album mix next week with a long time client. I'm really looking forward to mixing it.
The AES Convention started today, thats the Audio Engineering Society Convention in New york City (basically a convention for studio geeks), so of course i was there. Early on, I hooked up with my friend and Tech Editor of Scratch Magazine, Noah Rubin, and my super talented engineer friend Ryan West, and we hit the WAVES booth for a personal demo of WAVES new "De-Breather". Yup, somebody actually made a plugin specifically to remove only breaths and nothing else. It works amazingly well. WAVES also has a new vocal tuning plugin, which is very similar to Melodyne, only it seems much quicker and easier to use than Melodyne. Its not a real time plugin like Autotune is, but it seems pretty fast and is far more powerful. Finally, WAVES has a guitar amp simulator thats very impressive, with a very impressive $1200 price tag to match. Just a thought, $1200 seems really steep for any amp modeling plugin, even a good one.
The other item currently catching my eye is the brainchild of Chris Muth, a gear guru who has designed and built many of the mastering desks for the top mastering engineers in New York and elseware. When i heard he built an Analog Summing Box for digital mixing, i was all over it. Chris is a really nice guy, and his gear is wonderful (DangerousMusic.com). I also had a long talk with Bob Clearmountain today. Always such a wonderful guy to talk to. He has made so many landmark albums and he's still so down to Earth. I also talked at length with Anthony DeMaria (ADL Compressors) who was hanging at the PreSonus Booth. I ran into an old friend from Nashville who used to manage Emerald Sound and now manages George Massenburg's new studio in Nashville, which is ultra cool. I've always loved recording in Emerald's gem of a studio "The Tracking Room". It sounds amazing. I'm betting Massenburg's new place will sound great too.
Tomorrow (Saturday), i hope to steal a few more hours away from working to hit AES again and see everything i missed today, as well as hit the Apple/Logic reception. I got to meet the Logic guru who's been my lifeline for the last several months. Whenever i have a technical issue that I cant figure out with Logic, she's always found the answers for me somehow. There are a few other things tomorrow on my "gotta check out" list. Sunday will be a VERY big day for me. More on that later.
- Ken
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