What are you working on right now?

Jay Kahrs · 2nd January 2003, 06:36 AM

I'm in the middle of a nice long lockout with an indie rock band. We stopped on the 23rd and we're starting again at noon, working on more guitars and those should be done by the weekend. So, what are you working on right now?

Drumsound · 2nd January 2003, 09:07 AM

I'm "guest engineering" at a friends barn studio this weekend. Next week I have a live recording at a club, then I'm playing Thursday and Friday. I start a week-long project on the 11th. Shortly after that is the second record with a band I worked with in the fall of 2001.

alphajerk · 2nd January 2003, 12:20 PM

still recovering from the new year.... killa hangover.

Henchman · 2nd January 2003, 07:27 PM

Doing another documentary nexy week. And at the same time I'm producing and recording my own band's CD.

DigiDutch · 2nd January 2003, 09:44 PM

Still busy building my little home studio in my basement.

Who's the idiot that came up with the idea to put only 24 hours in a day anyway?

RSMITH123 · 2nd January 2003, 09:54 PM

Waiting for the release of budgeted funds...... argggh.

Curious G · 2nd January 2003, 10:47 PM

Corporate video voice-over this afternoon

CDRom interactive wave files tomorrow

NPR/PRI series voice-over and mix on Saturday

String quartet on Sunday

kfledman · 3rd January 2003, 12:06 AM

Right now I am still recovering from the last week of the year. My New Year's Eve started with a set up down at the Blue Note NYC for a Chick Corea radio broadcast with Steve Remote's truck......I was only there from 11 am til shortly after 3 pm subbing for the house sound guy. I then went to my other gig of the day at BB King Blues- I did monitors for the support act, DJ Z trip. First time I've ever actually enjoyed a DJ.......My day didn't end until 8:30 AM. My back is hurting still; not sure if it is from moving the piano around the stage at the beginning or moving around amp racks and monitors at the end or if I am just too old to be up and working for that long a period of a time....

I hope to post a more detailed account of the set up with Steve Remote as he asked me to write something for the forum; right now I am still out of it.

Next week I will be skiing in Vermont and working on RELAXING.

After that, back to a mix of producing/mastering for a boutique label, live sound at BB's and Blue Note and hopefully getting more clients to come to the home studio [which is probably the smallest 2" analog 24 track room in NYC if not the world.....].

Also, I've been mixing some really good martinis......

3rd January 2003, 01:10 AM

Music biz priority = organizing a showcase for managers of an act I publish & produce - takes place in one month so CD's have to go out v soon. ASCAP / the bands lawyer / Bug Music and myself are all inviting managers...(but no labels)

Nagging guilt = An album I should be mixing right now.... I keep putting it off.

What I am waiting for = Lawyers to get done with agreements for a ANOTHER new act I aim to publish in return for studio time. (V exciting) Hope to start that by the end of January.

What I am actually doing = Drinking espresso and getting agitated I haven't done all the above.

Mike Rhys · 3rd January 2003, 05:38 AM

Just finishing up a big project for an online English language course for a Japanese publisher.

Post production work for another Japanese publisher.

Cataloging and editing a pile of DATs from several years of location sound recording (SFX)

Biting my nails waiting to hear about a possible long-ish term voice acting gig.

Trying to decide the best location for my new Lava-Lamp.

Dizzlano · 3rd January 2003, 07:41 AM

Just got my final wiring done for my home studio, should be up and running within the next Week!!!!!!!!!!

Time to indulge myself.

Happy Holidays to everyone as well

-dano

Renie · 3rd January 2003, 11:17 AM

In the middle of recording an album of my own project.

Also producing a track for a Greek chef to promote his cookery book.

And producing a house single for a DJ, possibly leading to album.

Fun, fun, fun!

Wiggy Neve Slut · 3rd January 2003, 01:04 PM

Had a week of mixing old songs from 2" thru the neve.... aural orgasm...

and been looking some new and nasty GRRRL's to play with.... gota get outa the gearslut mode and return to 'regular' slut mode...

e

PEACE
Wiggy

sonic dogg · 3rd January 2003, 06:29 PM

We finished up the pre-production demo of our soon to be recorded CD...kinda tweeking the room figgerin out where the couch should sit and how many hillbillies you can get in a room without there being deadly results.....my studio budget ran out last fall so i gotta make everything work for the REAL CD ...setting up 'loaners' ie. mics and pres etc etc....good thing i got well equiped friends...............remember, 2003 is the year of the banjo.

malice · 3rd January 2003, 06:51 PM

Start a Bossa Nova Album next Tuesday

malice

cajonezzz · 3rd January 2003, 07:06 PM

well....building a new studio in hopes for a mid feb opening.
The building is tented for fumigationfor the next 3 days so now I get the pleasure of completing the rather long "honeydo" list that has accrued on the fridge.

Best part is i'm going shopping for a new mtn bike today. New years res is to get my growing ass out of the studio for at least 3 good rides a week.

**mwagener** · 3rd January 2003, 07:28 PM

Still working on my first surround project (after a 2 week Christmas break), which started in September last year. We are in the final overdub stages for keyboards, live strings and sound effects and the surround mix should start around the middle of January (can't wait) followed by the stereo mix in February. In between all this the studio is going to be upgraded with the MADI cards for the Sonys and a Euphonix Transfer Station with Nuendo. That means lots of rewiring

but what else are Sundays for?

David R. · 3rd January 2003, 07:31 PM

Two long term projects, two different artists. They each come in once a week or so. One just lost her job so she will be taking a bit of a break untill she can pay me again.

Procrastinating writing music for a Persian musician. We are going to do a project together, I just need to light a fire under my ass and get to it. One song is done, sketches of 5 more are on my hard drive.

thethrillfactor · 3rd January 2003, 07:32 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by mwagener
That means lots of rewiring but what else are Sundays for?

Football baby!!!!rollz

Lets go J..E..T..S!!! JETS,JETS,JETS!!!!

David R. · 3rd January 2003, 08:42 PM

Yea, sure. Go Jets. That means you don't mind if the Giants get stomped by the Niners.

salty · 11th January 2003, 10:56 AM

I'm in the later stages of building my first commercial studio (called Cloud 9), just getting to the fun stuff, wiring, soldering, headscratching. I'm also making an office out of a caravan (Trailer to the yanks) half way up a mountain for a Sound Company I freelance for. I won't be getting behind a desk until late this month when I have a 4 band F.O.H. gig and a 3 day recording project coming up (if the studio is built by then).

Alécio Costa · 13th January 2003, 06:12 AM

I am finishing some jingles for a food company:
a) rice cersion
b) pop corn version
c) diet version

very funny
also, 2 Horn Band (budget projects), my own Cd ( an eternity to finish), going back to rehearsals and playing with guys.

Nice 2003
Alécio

Mike Jasper · 13th January 2003, 06:55 AM

An interview with my Uncle John. He sounds like William Burroughs, no lie. It's so cool.

Okay. It' probably boring, but not to me.

Jasper

Mike Jasper · 13th January 2003, 06:57 AM

Quote:

I'm also making an office out of a caravan (Trailer to the yanks)

Only to the Yanks who haven't seen the movie "Snatch."

I mean.

Jasper

13th January 2003, 10:09 AM

60 CDRs of a band I am involved with hit the desks of managers & movers & shakers this morning... see if I get any calls this afternoon... No lables - just managers....

**DrDeltaM** · 21st October 2004, 03:40 PM

bump

Switchcraft · 21st October 2004, 05:28 PM

Writing music.
Ill make one track a night. name them by number 001, 002, 003 and on. I print a mix of that track at the end of the night drop it in Itunes. then on to the next day. Once I get to 075 I will choose my freshist go back and write them into entiretly with intros breaks, c's and V's. I love seeing what comes out on a day to day basis. it is always different. one day it is jazz one day it is groove, one day it is funk, but its all hip hop type.

max cooper · 21st October 2004, 08:39 PM

I've got a guy coming into my home studio at the end of next week to re-track an EP worth of guitars. The guy who tracked it did well on everything but the guitar sounds. I think I do better on guitar sounds than anything else, so I guess we're even. I'm gonna do some rough mixes for them too. Waiting for a Royer 121 and a TG-2. Gonna get it all down with that chain and a 421 and direct for Amplitube and possible reamping. I was reading an Aerosmith article and Joe Perry was talking about using the 121 "thanks to Fletcher". I hope Royer is giving him a couple bucks on every 121 they sell.

O/T: I just realized that the LE version of Amplitube that came with my 002 sounds better than the full version I upgraded to. I accidentally opened the LE version for the first time in a while this morning and I was surprised as heck.

Of course I'm working on my own project, as usual. It's slated for release in the 31st century at this rate.

Switchcraft, that's a cool way to do that. I have a similar thing where I pluck out single parts on my guit-fiddle and then convert to relatively simple midi piano and drums. Then I name them by feel/part, like "6/8 mid-tempo verse". Then I can go into that FireWire drive and play with sticking them together at different tempos. I usually get some interesting ideas that way.

studjo · 21st October 2004, 10:25 PM

this week mixing a jazz record (rearranged swiss folklore tunes)
next week hopefully mastering said record - installing second computer monitor and more harddrives.
the week after that mixing a R&B record. I tracked the basics for that record a few weeks ago and the band did all the overdubs. Wondering how that comes out.
Quite full till new year - knock on wood - only how I could earn money stays a miracle to me

Have fun Jo

Mystr Tiger · 21st October 2004, 11:35 PM

I'm working on my first song with my new PT setup. It's a remake of a gtr piece I did in the 80's. I finished drums and piano, and I'm currently try to get back my gtr chops. It's funny, but I'm trying to relearn what I originally did by slowing down the original, just like the old days when I'd cop licks off a record by slowing it down to 16. What's not funny is I'm having a hard time - and it's me that I'm trying to cop the licks from - frustrating as hell.

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2nd January 2003, 09:07 AM	#2
Drumsound Lives for gear Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Bloomington Il Posts: 3,585	I'm "guest engineering" at a friends barn studio this weekend. Next week I have a live recording at a club, then I'm playing Thursday and Friday. I start a week-long project on the 11th. Shortly after that is the second record with a band I worked with in the fall of 2001. __________________ Tony Oxide Lounge Recording See the Oxide Lounge! WWJMD? Come see me on the Tape Op boards! "If I have to flip flop more than three times in an A/B test to figure out what the difference is, I lose interest in that difference.'--Tchad Blake

2nd January 2003, 07:27 PM	#4
Henchman Lives for gear Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: LA, USA Posts: 4,021	Doing another documentary nexy week. And at the same time I'm producing and recording my own band's CD. __________________ www.markhensley.tv IMDB Credits

2nd January 2003, 09:44 PM	#5
DigiDutch Gear maniac Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Holland Posts: 167	Basement Still busy building my little home studio in my basement. Who's the idiot that came up with the idea to put only 24 hours in a day anyway?

2nd January 2003, 10:47 PM	#7
Curious G Gear addict Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Philadelphia Posts: 318	a little of this, a little of that... Corporate video voice-over this afternoon CDRom interactive wave files tomorrow NPR/PRI series voice-over and mix on Saturday String quartet on Sunday

2nd January 2003, 12:20 PM	#3
alphajerk There is only one Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: asheville NC Posts: 5,291	still recovering from the new year.... killa hangover.

2nd January 2003, 09:54 PM	#6
RSMITH123 Gear maniac Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: HOUSTON, TEXAS Posts: 168	Waiting for the release of budgeted funds...... argggh.

3rd January 2003, 12:06 AM	#8
kfledman Gear Head Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: NYC Posts: 33	Right now I am still recovering from the last week of the year. My New Year's Eve started with a set up down at the Blue Note NYC for a Chick Corea radio broadcast with Steve Remote's truck......I was only there from 11 am til shortly after 3 pm subbing for the house sound guy. I then went to my other gig of the day at BB King Blues- I did monitors for the support act, DJ Z trip. First time I've ever actually enjoyed a DJ.......My day didn't end until 8:30 AM. My back is hurting still; not sure if it is from moving the piano around the stage at the beginning or moving around amp racks and monitors at the end or if I am just too old to be up and working for that long a period of a time.... I hope to post a more detailed account of the set up with Steve Remote as he asked me to write something for the forum; right now I am still out of it. Next week I will be skiing in Vermont and working on RELAXING. After that, back to a mix of producing/mastering for a boutique label, live sound at BB's and Blue Note and hopefully getting more clients to come to the home studio [which is probably the smallest 2" analog 24 track room in NYC if not the world.....]. Also, I've been mixing some really good martinis......

3rd January 2003, 01:10 AM	#9
Jules Guest Posts: n/a	Music biz priority = organizing a showcase for managers of an act I publish & produce - takes place in one month so CD's have to go out v soon. ASCAP / the bands lawyer / Bug Music and myself are all inviting managers...(but no labels) Nagging guilt = An album I should be mixing right now.... I keep putting it off. What I am waiting for = Lawyers to get done with agreements for a ANOTHER new act I aim to publish in return for studio time. (V exciting) Hope to start that by the end of January. What I am actually doing = Drinking espresso and getting agitated I haven't done all the above.

3rd January 2003, 05:38 AM	#10
Mike Rhys Gear interested Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Tokyo Posts: 11	Just finishing up a big project for an online English language course for a Japanese publisher. Post production work for another Japanese publisher. Cataloging and editing a pile of DATs from several years of location sound recording (SFX) Biting my nails waiting to hear about a possible long-ish term voice acting gig. Trying to decide the best location for my new Lava-Lamp. __________________ Michael Rhys Voice Overs and stuff Short Temper Studio, Tokyo

3rd January 2003, 07:41 AM	#11
Dizzlano Gear Head Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Hackettstown, NJ Posts: 38	Just got my final wiring done for my home studio, should be up and running within the next Week!!!!!!!!!! Time to indulge myself. Happy Holidays to everyone as well -dano

3rd January 2003, 11:17 AM	#12
Renie Lives for gear Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: London UK Posts: 1,785	In the middle of recording an album of my own project. Also producing a track for a Greek chef to promote his cookery book. And producing a house single for a DJ, possibly leading to album. Fun, fun, fun! __________________ www.christisloving.com

3rd January 2003, 01:04 PM	#13
Wiggy Neve Slut Lives for gear Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: London, UK Posts: 1,839	Had a week of mixing old songs from 2" thru the neve.... aural orgasm... and been looking some new and nasty GRRRL's to play with.... gota get outa the gearslut mode and return to 'regular' slut mode... ee PEACE Wiggy __________________ If i see another 'Which neve clone is better thread... im seriously gona go postal!!!!!!!"

3rd January 2003, 06:29 PM	#14
sonic dogg Gear addict Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: pacific northwest Posts: 481	We finished up the pre-production demo of our soon to be recorded CD...kinda tweeking the room figgerin out where the couch should sit and how many hillbillies you can get in a room without there being deadly results.....my studio budget ran out last fall so i gotta make everything work for the REAL CD ...setting up 'loaners' ie. mics and pres etc etc....good thing i got well equiped friends...............remember, 2003 is the year of the banjo. __________________ the clubhouse studio....home of drool'n dogg rekords

3rd January 2003, 06:51 PM	#15
malice Lives for gear Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: France Posts: 876	Start a Bossa Nova Album next Tuesday malice

3rd January 2003, 07:06 PM	#16
cajonezzz Lives for gear Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Carlsbad Ca. Posts: 1,723	well....building a new studio in hopes for a mid feb opening. The building is tented for fumigationfor the next 3 days so now I get the pleasure of completing the rather long "honeydo" list that has accrued on the fridge. Best part is i'm going shopping for a new mtn bike today. New years res is to get my growing ass out of the studio for at least 3 good rides a week. __________________ Craig Zarkos http://www.myspace.com/cajonezzz http://tybridroom.com/ z-orama TourstopLIVE! Calavera Proving Grounds (record & ride!) ----------------------------------------------------------------- Watch your thoughts, for they become words. Watch your words, for they become actions. Watch your actions, for they become habits. Watch your habits, for they become character. Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.

3rd January 2003, 07:28 PM	#17
mwagener High End Moderator Join Date: May 2002 Location: Music City USA Posts: 2,884	Still working on my first surround project (after a 2 week Christmas break), which started in September last year. We are in the final overdub stages for keyboards, live strings and sound effects and the surround mix should start around the middle of January (can't wait) followed by the stereo mix in February. In between all this the studio is going to be upgraded with the MADI cards for the Sonys and a Euphonix Transfer Station with Nuendo. That means lots of rewiring but what else are Sundays for? __________________ Michael Wagener http://www.michaelwagener.com Production workshops at WireWorld Studio

3rd January 2003, 07:31 PM	#18
David R. Lives for gear Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: The Left Coast, and don't call it 'Frisco Posts: 1,590	Two long term projects, two different artists. They each come in once a week or so. One just lost her job so she will be taking a bit of a break untill she can pay me again. Procrastinating writing music for a Persian musician. We are going to do a project together, I just need to light a fire under my ass and get to it. One song is done, sketches of 5 more are on my hard drive. __________________ -David R. "An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way." - C. Bukowski

3rd January 2003, 08:42 PM	#20
David R. Lives for gear Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: The Left Coast, and don't call it 'Frisco Posts: 1,590	Yea, sure. Go Jets. That means you don't mind if the Giants get stomped by the Niners. __________________ -David R. "An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way." - C. Bukowski

11th January 2003, 10:56 AM	#21
salty Gear interested Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Newport, Wales Posts: 16	Building stuff... I'm in the later stages of building my first commercial studio (called Cloud 9), just getting to the fun stuff, wiring, soldering, headscratching. I'm also making an office out of a caravan (Trailer to the yanks) half way up a mountain for a Sound Company I freelance for. I won't be getting behind a desk until late this month when I have a 4 band F.O.H. gig and a 3 day recording project coming up (if the studio is built by then). __________________ --- +48v Studios Newport Wales 01633 264144

13th January 2003, 06:12 AM	#22
Alécio Costa Lives for gear Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Brazil, Florianópolis/SC Posts: 1,249	I am finishing some jingles for a food company: a) rice cersion b) pop corn version c) diet version very funny also, 2 Horn Band (budget projects), my own Cd ( an eternity to finish), going back to rehearsals and playing with guys. Nice 2003 Alécio __________________ Alécio Costa Studio Music Production/Mastering http://www.aleciocosta.com Listen to my album at: http://www.audiostreet.net/artist.aspx?artistid=38915

13th January 2003, 06:55 AM	#23
Mike Jasper Lives for gear Join Date: Nov 2002 Posts: 1,320	An interview with my Uncle John. He sounds like William Burroughs, no lie. It's so cool. Okay. It' probably boring, but not to me. Jasper

13th January 2003, 10:09 AM	#25
Jules Guest Posts: n/a	60 CDRs of a band I am involved with hit the desks of managers & movers & shakers this morning... see if I get any calls this afternoon... No lables - just managers....

21st October 2004, 03:40 PM	#26
DrDeltaM Moderator Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Belgium Posts: 3,619	bump __________________ Mathijs Indesteege aka Mathew Lane mixing - mastering - audio restoration - plugins http://www.mathewlane.com DrMS. Focus on your stereo field. DrMS spatial processor RTAS/AU/VST plugin » Digital Audio Product Support Joystick Audio - Benelux High End Distributor http://www.joystick.be

21st October 2004, 05:28 PM	#27
Switchcraft Lives for gear Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Philly Posts: 967	Writing music. Ill make one track a night. name them by number 001, 002, 003 and on. I print a mix of that track at the end of the night drop it in Itunes. then on to the next day. Once I get to 075 I will choose my freshist go back and write them into entiretly with intros breaks, c's and V's. I love seeing what comes out on a day to day basis. it is always different. one day it is jazz one day it is groove, one day it is funk, but its all hip hop type. __________________ my hands work mad good http://www.ONE-76.com

21st October 2004, 08:39 PM	#28
max cooper Lives for gear Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: tx Posts: 8,819	I've got a guy coming into my home studio at the end of next week to re-track an EP worth of guitars. The guy who tracked it did well on everything but the guitar sounds. I think I do better on guitar sounds than anything else, so I guess we're even. I'm gonna do some rough mixes for them too. Waiting for a Royer 121 and a TG-2. Gonna get it all down with that chain and a 421 and direct for Amplitube and possible reamping. I was reading an Aerosmith article and Joe Perry was talking about using the 121 "thanks to Fletcher". I hope Royer is giving him a couple bucks on every 121 they sell. O/T: I just realized that the LE version of Amplitube that came with my 002 sounds better than the full version I upgraded to. I accidentally opened the LE version for the first time in a while this morning and I was surprised as heck. Of course I'm working on my own project, as usual. It's slated for release in the 31st century at this rate. Switchcraft, that's a cool way to do that. I have a similar thing where I pluck out single parts on my guit-fiddle and then convert to relatively simple midi piano and drums. Then I name them by feel/part, like "6/8 mid-tempo verse". Then I can go into that FireWire drive and play with sticking them together at different tempos. I usually get some interesting ideas that way.

21st October 2004, 10:25 PM	#29
studjo Lives for gear Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Switzerland Posts: 1,889	this week mixing a jazz record (rearranged swiss folklore tunes) next week hopefully mastering said record - installing second computer monitor and more harddrives. the week after that mixing a R&B record. I tracked the basics for that record a few weeks ago and the band did all the overdubs. Wondering how that comes out. Quite full till new year - knock on wood - only how I could earn money stays a miracle to me Have fun Jo

21st October 2004, 11:35 PM	#30
Mystr Tiger Gear maniac Join Date: Sep 2004 Posts: 200	I'm working on my first song with my new PT setup. It's a remake of a gtr piece I did in the 80's. I finished drums and piano, and I'm currently try to get back my gtr chops. It's funny, but I'm trying to relearn what I originally did by slowing down the original, just like the old days when I'd cop licks off a record by slowing it down to 16. What's not funny is I'm having a hard time - and it's me that I'm trying to cop the licks from - frustrating as hell.