stupidest things you have ever heard during a session.

[joeq]

Originally Posted by Jazzpunk

I've actually had someone ask if I had that plug in that could change the dialogue. Not the timing but the actual words.

I think I actually laughed out loud on that one.

yeah that would be impossible

[fetishfrog]

Funny stuff...

My personal favorite, after tracking a hip hop artist who had a terrible time articulating his phrases, a suggestion came down from the producer to, "perhaps do another take, with a little more emphasis on tightening up your words." The response: "Nah man, that's my style. I want it to sound all mushy, like a big ol' bunch of junk all bangin' together. Can you do that? Can you make me sound like a big ol' bunch of f***** junk all bangin' together an' s***?"

Ummm, sure....

[Chris Farrow]

Originally Posted by joeq

If the people who have this ability all AGREE on what sound = "orange" (for example) then clearly it is a breakthrough of the first magnitude. Personally, I have never met two who 'hear' the same colors in the same way.

If a single individual can at least consistently assign the same color to the same sound, I think this might qualify as a meaningful sensory experience. I have heard the perfect -pitchers make this claim.

My experience with most people who ask for more "orange" in a mix, is that they have no frame of reference - even to themselves. What is "orange" today may be "yellow" tomorrow. When that is the case, I think disorder is a perfectly good term to describe their condition. Many who experience it can not even control when it comes and goes, except as to refrain from eating certain mushrooms.

Some recent research indicates that we are all born with Synesthesia and as we get older we learn to send each sensory input to the "correct" part of our brains. Being unable to live life behind someone else's eyes, we don't even know if someone perceiving "red" is having the same sensory experience as we are when we perceive "red". As long as they are consistent each time and in agreement with their fellow human beings we assume they are 'normal'.

I would like to respectfully amend that, just a bit. It wouldn't take many people to agree on the sound of orange to make it valid, it would only take the person who stated this to be consistent, over time, in identifying the sonic character of orange. That's the distinction. If he or she could do this, then this is valid and hardly a disorder.

Interesting points of view though, thanks. I agree with the poster who points out that the visual and aural sensory modalities each represent different ways of decoding vibration, waveform. Monsieur Robinett is well spoken and obviously a far thinker. Thanks again.

Respectfully requesting synesthesia move to its own thread? It isn't stupid any more, it's very interesting, just not this topic...

Thanks,
Lou

[taturana]

Originally Posted by artbeat77

They got ya with the cuica, huh?

yeah... the cuica is a weird instrument... i usually have a really good player record it in my studio ... usually percussionist Laudir de Oliveira, who was a former member of chicago and sergio mendes among many other excellent bands... he is a cuica virtuoso... i'd never use those horrible sampled cuicas though... they sound like a crappy dog...

the isolation in my home studio isn't perfect so everytime we record the cuica, the neighbor's dog barks like crazy, it's very funny... maybe he thinks he has found love after all...

[taturana]

Originally Posted by Lou Judson

Respectfully requesting synesthesia move to its own thread? It isn't stupid any more, it's very interesting, just not this topic...

Thanks,
Lou

i would also think that it's a great idea to discuss synesthesia in depth in another thread...

[Labs]

"Do what you want, we trust you"

Gustav

[The Suicider]

Not in the studio but live:

As i'm setting up the mics, the singer comes up to me and says "I need alot of reverb on my vocals". I told him "we don't have a reverb unit" which is true. (Side note: i was filling in for an aquaintence at his venue)

Fast forward to sound check:

Singer: "Check, check, i need more reverb in the monitor"
Me : "there is no reverb"
Singer: "Check, check, i need more reverb, OK that sounds good..."
(reminder: there is no reverb unit)

30 seconds later:
Singer: "Check, can i have more reverb in the monitor"
Me : "I told you there is no reverb".
Singer: "Check, check, OK that sounds good..."


Repeat this scenario every other song in during the bands set...

Is the Phrase "There is no reverb" that hard to understand?

[RichT]

Can I have some more reverb please?

Well, you could always adjust the buffer to give more latency! Or open the talkback mic for some room sound...

[bluesman714]

I recorded a horrible little country band live a couple of years ago. I had set up a mic on the bass amp & walked over to the bass player with my DI box. He asked what it was & I explained that this would allow me to take his signal directly & that the combination of the mic on his amp and the direct signal would make for a good solid bass sound. He responded with "NO WAY MAN"...I had to ask..no way what? He said " Im not plugging into that box, there's no way Im giving anyone that much control over my sound." I handed the DI to him & told him that this was what the unit that I was planning on using. It was a Groove Tubes Ditto & it weighs quite a bit, after I let him hold it, he decided to let me use it because "anything that heavy has to be good."
??????????????!

[GearHunter]

Originally Posted by bluesman714

I recorded a horrible little country band live a couple of years ago. I had set up a mic on the bass amp & walked over to the bass player with my DI box. He asked what it was & I explained that this would allow me to take his signal directly & that the combination of the mic on his amp and the direct signal would make for a good solid bass sound. He responded with "NO WAY MAN"...I had to ask..no way what? He said " Im not plugging into that box, there's no way Im giving anyone that much control over my sound." I handed the DI to him & told him that this was what the unit that I was planning on using. It was a Groove Tubes Ditto & it weighs quite a bit, after I let him hold it, he decided to let me use it because "anything that heavy has to be good."
??????????????!

Damn...I would have said, "Uh, Dude....you play, um, THE BASS. Nobody freakin' cares about your tone, as long as it's LOW! If you play your part right not a soul will hear a note you play. The only time anybody hears the bass is when you make a mistake. You're lucky I even put a mic on your amp. Forget the DI. I'm gonna give it to somebody who matters..."

[Chrisc_o]

Originally Posted by Labs

"Do what you want, we trust you"

Gustav

LOL!

That is a frightneing thought now isn't it?!

[Led]

Originally Posted by Lynn Fuston

Well, I've been hearing phantom ring tones (like an electronic phone) in popular music for years. Even stuff that I'm mixing. Am I the only one?

No, you're not alone. I hear them sometimes in tracks that I have produced and tracked everything on, so I know for sure they aren't there. But I still hear them. I think it's called 'phonesythsiea". It comes from the part of the brain that also causes a condition known as porn ear, where someone says "it's a hit" and you hear "nice tits". I have that too.

[GearHunter]

Originally Posted by Led

No, you're not alone. I hear them sometimes in tracks that I have produced and tracked everything on, so I know for sure they aren't there. But I still hear them. I think it's called 'phonesythsiea". It comes from the part of the brain that also causes a condition known as porn ear, where someone says "it's a hit" and you hear "nice tits". I have that too.

Are you kidding? Phones, choir voices, horns, acoustic guitars, harps, angels...If you DON'T hear those things in your mixes you are unusual. I noticed it much more in the all-analog days, but when all those instruments combine they create overtones and bell-like sounds that become a sounds in-and-of themselves. We called 'em "Ghost Harmonics".

I remember one time we were mixing this tune and suddenly this keyboard string kinda synth part just appeared out of nowhere. There were no keys on the tracks. All guitars and vocals. When we played the finished mix for the artist, they actually thought we had added a keyboard part. Nope. Overtones.

And just now, a song i just finished: Every time the bridge of this song plays, I hear my cell-phone ring. I turn down the music to make sure my phone is ringing. It's not. Overtones. Gets me every time.

[juicylime]

Originally Posted by GearHunter

Are you kidding? Phones, choir voices, horns, acoustic guitars, harps, angels...If you DON'T hear those things in your mixes you are unusual. I noticed it much more in the all-analog days, but when all those instruments combine they create overtones and bell-like sounds that become a sounds in-and-of themselves. We called 'em "Ghost Harmonics".

I remember one time we were mixing this tune and suddenly this keyboard string kinda synth part just appeared out of nowhere. There were no keys on the tracks. All guitars and vocals. When we played the finished mix for the artist, they actually thought we had added a keyboard part. Nope. Overtones.

And just now, a song i just finished: Every time the bridge of this song plays, I hear my cell-phone ring. I turn down the music to make sure my phone is ringing. It's not. Overtones. Gets me every time.

Hhmm, but what did we think they sounded like before there were mobile phones?

[Devina]

http://www.mixbuss.com/article.php?id=74

[Devina]

Originally Posted by artbeat77

From a lifetime ITB-er (nothing wrong with it, but don't be close-minded) looking at an MCI JH-600 for the first time with disgust, "I don't like consoles. They have too many buttons."

(me thinking) Well, heaven forbid you'd learn how they work.

http://www.behringer.com/BCD3000/index.cfm?lang=ENG

what about these buttons

[Led]

Originally Posted by juicylime

Hhmm, but what did we think they sounded like before there were mobile phones?

Space invaders?

[artbeat77]

Originally Posted by Devina

http://www.behringer.com/BCD3000/index.cfm?lang=ENG

what about these buttons

I'm not following.

[Devina]

do you think theyd be more learnable?

[taturana]

Originally Posted by GearHunter

Are you kidding? Phones, choir voices, horns, acoustic guitars, harps, angels...If you DON'T hear those things in your mixes you are unusual. I noticed it much more in the all-analog days, but when all those instruments combine they create overtones and bell-like sounds that become a sounds in-and-of themselves. We called 'em "Ghost Harmonics".

I remember one time we were mixing this tune and suddenly this keyboard string kinda synth part just appeared out of nowhere. There were no keys on the tracks. All guitars and vocals. When we played the finished mix for the artist, they actually thought we had added a keyboard part. Nope. Overtones.

And just now, a song i just finished: Every time the bridge of this song plays, I hear my cell-phone ring. I turn down the music to make sure my phone is ringing. It's not. Overtones. Gets me every time.

i had this one song in particular... where i always heard a cell phone at the same place and after soloing everything we couldn't find any cell phone on it... then when we put it all together, bingo, there it was again... it almost drove me crazy....

[code green]

Originally Posted by taturana

i had this one song in particular... where i always heard a cell phone at the same place and after soloing everything we couldn't find any cell phone on it... then when we put it all together, bingo, there it was again... it almost drove me crazy....

i can't tell you how happy i am to hear that i am not the only one hearing these kinds of things.

[DeathMonkey]

Originally Posted by Toast

another thing i like to do when some know it alls that don´t know anything think they have to tell me what to do is changing the parameters of a channel that´s not in use. eventhough the sound doesn´t change at all, they say "yeah, now it´s much better". this works especialy good when working live, and mostly with noobs very funny!!

He he he, I have a hardware controller for just that purpose.

[pan]

Originally Posted by juicylime

Hhmm, but what did we think they sounded like before there were mobile phones?

Pagers?


no... _BIRDS_

[joeq]

Originally Posted by taturana

i had this one song in particular... where i always heard a cell phone at the same place and after soloing everything we couldn't find any cell phone on it... then when we put it all together, bingo, there it was again... it almost drove me crazy....

instead of going through the mix soloing the instruments one at a time, go through the mix muting the instruments one at a time.

often such phantoms are created by the accidental overlap of two or more sounds neither of which sounds like the phantom alone.

[The Suicider]

Originally Posted by bluesman714

I recorded a horrible little country band live a couple of years ago. I had set up a mic on the bass amp & walked over to the bass player with my DI box. He asked what it was & I explained that this would allow me to take his signal directly & that the combination of the mic on his amp and the direct signal would make for a good solid bass sound. He responded with "NO WAY MAN"...I had to ask..no way what? He said " Im not plugging into that box, there's no way Im giving anyone that much control over my sound." I handed the DI to him & told him that this was what the unit that I was planning on using. It was a Groove Tubes Ditto & it weighs quite a bit, after I let him hold it, he decided to let me use it because "anything that heavy has to be good."
??????????????!

Wow, i get guys who get all worked up when i mic their cab. The wirings not right where i run sound and i get all sorts of noise when i DI the bass. I once spent 20 mins with a bass player and his sound guy, neither of them letting me mic the cab. I'd unplug the mic cable from the dudes head and when the buzz went away, their sound guy went "ok you got it than sounds good now" while i'm standin there with the mic cord in my hand. I wanted to kill the both of them but the band was the house band a a local landmark for 25 years and it was their annual reunion and my boss gave them the run of the place.

[SimonT]

Originally Posted by 11thhour

I was tracking vocal tracks for a death metal band a couple of months ago..typical cookie monster tracks,, vocals sounded something like..*imagine this in very low, deep voice* rrrrrruuhh rrrrrgg fffrrrrhhhgg rrrrhhhuu *big breath* rrrrgg hhrrrrruuuhhrrr.. gghhhhrrrruurrch...

suddenly, singer stops, throws his hands in the air, and says...damn it!! I sang the wrong words!!

Haha had that exact thing today!

[*CISKO*]

im in a vocal session in miami with a classically trained singer, so we set up the vocal mic and check lines etc, so everything is ready before she gets there. she finally does and says, are you crazy? I dont need a microphone, i am a classical singer!

my thoughts were, are you going to yell it into the protools rig then?

[taturana]

Originally Posted by *CISKO*

im in a vocal session in miami with a classically trained singer, so we set up the vocal mic and check lines etc, so everything is ready before she gets there. she finally does and says, are you crazy? I dont need a microphone, i am a classical singer!

my thoughts were, are you going to yell it into the protools rig then?

that's a great one....