Ken Lewis is now Damaged

[Ken Lewis]

Hey fellow Slutz,

So, recently i mixed the new single from Danity Kane titled "Damaged". The music video just got released and the single is building well at radio, however, I had to share with my fellow Slutz the reason why i now know this song will be a mega-hit.


Are any of you familiar with the crying "Leave Britney Alone" guy Chris Crocker? Well, he's now done a YouTube dance routine to Danity Kane "Damaged". I know I have arrived as a mixer when a song i mixed gets on the Chris Crocker RADAR. its already got almost a million views. Unbelievable.

After watching it, if you dare, i assure you, you will be Damaged too. My retina are burning.

Here's the link...Enjoy!

YouTube - Chris Crocker is Damaged!

-Ken Lewis

[Heezzi]

:-(

[In Search of]

wow....my eyes are Damaged

[kojo]

Originally Posted by Ken Lewis

Hey fellow Slutz,

So, recently i mixed the new single from Danity Kane titled "Damaged". The music video just got released and the single is building well at radio, however, I had to share with my fellow Slutz the reason why i now know this song will be a mega-hit.


Are any of you familiar with the crying "Leave Britney Alone" guy Chris Crocker? Well, he's now done a YouTube dance routine to Danity Kane "Damaged". I know I have arrived as a mixer when a song i mixed gets on the Chris Crocker RADAR. its already got almost a million views. Unbelievable.

After watching it, if you dare, i assure you, you will be Damaged too. My retina are burning.

Here's the link...Enjoy!

YouTube - Chris Crocker is Damaged!

-Ken Lewis

dont you mean GAYDAR?

im just kiddin fellas, i couldnt resist LMAO

[kriscain]

waddup Ken...
congrats!

Im a fan bruh... you make good music.


cool@me using one of your mixes as a reference though.
do you happen to know what the signal chain was for this track?

cuz I've been trying to find a signal chain for female vocalists.
I always have a problem with vocals sounding too "real" if you know what i mean... i know it sounds crazy but i think it has something to do with the sound of the microphone i use. I use a Rode K2, going into a DBX 586 (dont kill me, i know it sucks, but its all i got right now)..

I know that they recorded in a bigtime studio, but i am just looking for advice to guide me along the way toward getting a sound like the sound that was acheived in that song, and on the album in general.

[verb1]

Why did you post that link? What have we ever done to you besides big up your work? That was horrible! (The dance, not your mix.)

Good work Ken, but please don't post a Chris-whatever-his-name-is link again!

[Dor]

Ken, is that your assistant?

D

[Barznbeats1]

Wow. That was pretty disgusting. lol Ken, you need to fire your intern.

He did this dance lol!-->

[Krumbz]

Yep. This one sits somewhere inbetween 2 girls 1 cup and the BME Pain Olympics.

Horrifying nonetheless.

Regardless... Ken's right... this is a certified hit.

Props Ken!

Die Chris!

[FrustiThaSnowman]

did that song need 200+ layers of tracks?

(just kidding, you got it made man but whats with taht dude dressing as a girl? omg!! blech)

[Ken Lewis]

Originally Posted by kriscain

waddup Ken...
congrats!

Im a fan bruh... you make good music.


cool@me using one of your mixes as a reference though.
do you happen to know what the signal chain was for this track?

cuz I've been trying to find a signal chain for female vocalists.
I always have a problem with vocals sounding too "real" if you know what i mean... i know it sounds crazy but i think it has something to do with the sound of the microphone i use. I use a Rode K2, going into a DBX 586 (dont kill me, i know it sucks, but its all i got right now)..

I know that they recorded in a bigtime studio, but i am just looking for advice to guide me along the way toward getting a sound like the sound that was acheived in that song, and on the album in general.

Hey kriscain,
I dont know what the recording chain was (i wasnt there), but my mix chains for vox on the song depended on what your talking about.

On the LV's, you should read the thread that someone started asking me about 200+ track mixes. I broke down in detail how i sometimes split off a single lead vocal onto several tracks ITB (same output on the console) and treat them differently ITB.

once they are on the console, my typical danity kane LV chains were one of the following (i did alot of mixes with alot of vox, dont know what got used where)

NEVE VR Channel insert.....then.....

Some kinda compressor. this is what i used for Lead vox somewhere on almost every mix,

Distressor or Summit DCL 200 or ADL

Some kinda EQ, this is what i used for Lead vox somewhere on almost every mix,

API 4 band (are those the 550's?) or GML 8200 or GML 2032 or Neumann PEV or Tube Tech CL1B and sometimes also/or Neve Channel EQ

De-esser if/when i used them were always DBX 902's

so it was any combination of the above, usually compressor/EQ/de-esser, but sometimes the de-esser ended up in different parts of the chain

and of course this is all after some random string of plugins on each channel

-Ken

[Ken Lewis]

Originally Posted by Barznbeats1

Wow. That was pretty disgusting. lol Ken, you need to fire your intern.

He did this dance lol!-->

Dude, if my intern could get me a million hits on my website, i wouldnt care how he danced or what he looked like.

OK, I'm lying, there is no way in hell i would ever employ that freak, money is not that important. keep in mind i can barely even see my computer screen right now due to my burned out retinas
-Ken

[Ken Lewis]

Originally Posted by Krumbz

Yep. This one sits somewhere inbetween 2 girls 1 cup and the BME Pain Olympics.

Horrifying nonetheless.

Regardless... Ken's right... this is a certified hit.

Props Ken!

Die Chris!

Yep, this song was one of those songs that i just got a huge smile on my face about ten seconds after starting to push up the faders. if this song doesnt go top ten i'll be disappointed. - Ken

PS. i refuse to watch 2 girls 1 cup and what the hell is BME Pain olympics, nevermind i do not want to know. But i figured if i had to suffer thru Chris Crocker then some of you did too. sorry, i tried to warn you

[Ken Lewis]

Originally Posted by FrustiThaSnowman

did that song need 200+ layers of tracks

This song had a meager 174 tracks, and Puffy had a plane to catch so i stayed at the studio about 28 hours straight mixing it. We finished the mix, Puff caught his plane, the song went STRAIGHT to mastering.

[cynic one]

Originally Posted by Ken Lewis

PS. i refuse to watch 2 girls 1 cup and what the hell is BME Pain olympics, nevermind i do not want to know. But i figured if i had to suffer thru Chris Crocker then some of you did too. sorry, i tried to warn you

DO NOT watch BME pain olympics. i'm shook for life off about 5 seconds of that clip.

[tonymission]

Originally Posted by cynic

DO NOT watch BME pain olympics. i'm shook for life off about 5 seconds of that clip.

dude!!!

i hate admitting this but after seeing what those fools do to their cocks ugh... im still not sure i can get it up.

that is DISGUSTING. i couldnt even watch the whole video. my ex used to be best friends with masuimi max the fetish model who was married to some allen guy who would hang from helicopters with hooks in his back. she made me watch that shit once and i almost threw up. i dont know if it was the olympic video but it was BME something .... ugggghhhh... im sick again.

[cynic one]

Originally Posted by tonymission

dude!!!

i hate admitting this but after seeing what those fools do to their cocks ugh... im still not sure i can get it up.

that is DISGUSTING. i couldnt even watch the whole video. my ex used to be best friends with masuimi max the fetish model who was married to some allen guy who would hang from helicopters with hooks in his back. she made me watch that shit once and i almost threw up. i dont know if it was the olympic video but it was BME something .... ugggghhhh... im sick again.

man i feel you on that one, i ran out the damn room when my homie put that shit on. some fools are twiiiiiiiisted. that hook in the back shit ain't cool either...

[Stitch333]

wow!

I guess any publicity is (um, er..) good publicity?


seriously, congrats on getting into the pop culture blender, Ken

[bobwarren]

Dang it man!! Curiosity just killed this cat!

The Chris Crocker thing was tame compared to the other vids I found. Uuuuggh.

[Shabo]

HAHA...that Chris makes me laugh!!

[smy1]

I must be the only one who thinks that his dancing is better than the song? Also, it's clearly a pisstake on "Making The Band" (I like how he went to a faux-rehearsal-studio) and while I think that Chris Crocker is a complete nut (who knows? he may be a marketing genius who will have his own HBO show soon?), I think this video totally reflects/symbolizes MTB and other such shows ...

Sorry, Ken - the track sounds punchy on YouTube, but I really don't like the songwriting at all.

Then again the only r&b-pop tunes I liked in the past years were "Be Without You" by Mary J. Blige, Kelly Rowland's "Stole" and Ne-Yo's "So Sick" ...

[big country]

that deserves a baby Jesus but plug award

[big country]

talk about being stuck in a bad stereo type

[kojo]

ok, i got curious and watched the Crocker vid...



at that freak trying to look and act like Aubrey.

and for the record I'd love to meet Dawn one day

[smy1]

Originally Posted by big country

talk about being stuck in a bad stereo type

Crocker or Danity Kane?

I'd say both ...

[Justice]

I just swallowed my vomet!

[PhonoquO]

i don't get it. was chris cocker given a copy of the song before puff took it to mastering? or was the song leaked pre-mastering? I could see it in the top ten no problem. At least there are some decent singing performances and melodies as opposed to alot of simplistic crap that's been making the charts of late. good job ken! you got your vocal sounds on lock! i take it you got a pretty tight relationship with puff.

M

[MERC476]

Ken...You are the man. I love your work. But damn...this vid is so disturbing, I think i'm gonna cring everytime I hear this song now!!!LOL

[gallerytungsten]

Ken, here I thought you were one of those nice Midwest guys and you post this. What's the matter with you!!!

[Ken Lewis]

Originally Posted by PhonoquO

i don't get it. was chris cocker given a copy of the song before puff took it to mastering? or was the song leaked pre-mastering? I could see it in the top ten no problem. At least there are some decent singing performances and melodies as opposed to alot of simplistic crap that's been making the charts of late. good job ken! you got your vocal sounds on lock! i take it you got a pretty tight relationship with puff.

M

The single has been available on itunes for a few weeks. Their video got released this week, album drops Tuesday. while i appreciate the nice things that have been said about this mix on this thread, i'm not sure how any of you can judge good from bad off a video mic recording of a boom box :-) I actually am incredibly happy with the way all the vox came out on this mix, it wasnt easy. check out the single on itunes, or they are spinning a clip of it on their myspace page. I'm sure Chris Crocker got it off itunes or myspace. -Ken