Nashville Recording Workshop and Expo

[cjmnash]

this is gonna be really cool, and i haven't seen it mentioned here yet:

Nashville Recording Workshop & Expo

plus, it's at the musicians hall of fame, which rocks. it's not expensive at all; and the panels are hosted by a who's who of engineers/producers. seriously- take a look at the list of panelists.

there are also a lot of exhibitors too, so poke around on the site.

just thought i'd hip everyone to it- i'm going to be there, and am hosting an event at my studio that corresponds with it:

www.chrismara.com/goof/AnalogTasteTest.pdf

and it's thread: Analog Taste Test- Nashville, TN Feb 20th

-chris mara
www.welcometo1979.com

[dougb415]

My wife and I will be there, just got our room booked. Really looking forward to it, even if it is supposed to snow on Saturday....

[drastic]

Why am I always on tour when this kinda thing is going on?!?! Damn!

[cjmnash]

Originally Posted by dougb415

My wife and I will be there, just got our room booked. Really looking forward to it, even if it is supposed to snow on Saturday....

cool- see you around the expo! hopefully you can make it out to 1979 for the taste test too. stop by the ATR Tape/JRF booth for more info...or call me.

-chris
(615) 476-6272

[dougb415]

Thanks Chris, I'll see you there. And if you can convince my wife to stop by I'd love to check out 1979 too

[Minglewood]

Yeah, well I was gonna go but just now I went out to my studio and "Hmmmm, what's that smell......it seems to be only in the studio and it smells like .....a......................................................SKUNK!!! (The 4 legged kind) AARRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh the joys of a converted tobacco barn. I'll be learning about skunk removal from under floor space instead of mic pre's and all of the great workshops that WERE in store for me.
There, that feels better. Sorry, I just had to vent. My wife doesn't need to hear my griping.
Wish me luck,
Bill

[cjmnash]

Originally Posted by dougb415

Thanks Chris, I'll see you there. And if you can convince my wife to stop by I'd love to check out 1979 too

tell her it's gonna be FUN at 1979...plus we'll have food/drinks! LOL

see you at the expo- look for me at/near the ATR & JRF booth.

-chris

[Jules]

Next time get in touch earlier and I can assist in getting the word out more...

Have fun!

[stratton]

I'd like ot go to this event. Timing is bad for me, though. I'll be in Nashville with a client in April. anything going on then?

[dougb415]

Originally Posted by cjmnash

tell her it's gonna be FUN at 1979...plus we'll have food/drinks! LOL

see you at the expo- look for me at/near the ATR & JRF booth.

-chris

Chris,

We came by the booth but you were one BUSY dude! Hope it was a good time at 1979 tonight. The workshop has been a lot of fun. One hour recording with George Massenburg was about 100 hours too short. Looking forward to tomorrow!

[emfrank72]

Why am I only hearing about this now? Oh well, maybe next time.

[dougb415]

Just got back. WOW. Now that is my kind of weekend! Tony Shepperd is a TRIP, just funny as hell. Had to say that first. My wife wants to know if George Massenburg will adopt us. He's the best; literally one of those times where you HAD to be there. Just the time with those two guys alone was more than worth the price of admission... and there were so many more fine, fine moments. Lynn Fuston! Excellent presentation, nowhere near enough time for all the info he wanted to share. Tim Akers, thank you so much for showing the Logic session. Carl Tatz gave me some advice on fixing some of the bad acoustics in my odd-shaped room - THANK YOU. Rich Adler showed us how he gets great recordings of acoustic guitar and mandolin. And on and on and on. BTW, Wes Dooley from AEA wears one sweet-looking top hat

The workshop and expo were held at the Musicians Hall Of Fame, so when we weren't attending classes or drooling over all the gear upstairs (my wallet is empty now but we have some sweet gear being shipped to us) we were wandering the halls taking pics of the exhibits. I'll post some of those later.

Can we do this every weekend?

-Doug

[wmporter]

Doug:
I don't remember if we had the pleasure of meeting this weekend or not. I think we did as I do remember talking to someone from Huntsville. I met so many people over the past 2 days. Thank you for your comments. It was a lot of hard work by a talented and dedicated group of people that I have the honor of knowing and working with. I'm pleased to know that you and others that I have talked with enjoyed the program. I will be adding some pictures to the Nashville Recording Workshop website over the next few days so check back every now and then. We're all taking a few days off to decompress.

I'd also like to thank you and the others at Gearslutz for helping to promote this event. We had lots of traffic coming from the Gearslutz forum and that really helped to get people to the workshop.

Please feel free to make suggestions for future panels/workshops as we move forward towards planning for 2010. I'm interested in hearing where we could make improvements. We've already started making our own list of how it can be improved. This was the first shot ever by AES Nashville undertaking an event of this scope and now that it's all over, it exceeded our humble expectations.

Would love to use some of your comments posted above on the NRW+E website as part of a review/wrap up. Please let me know if this would be permitted. If you would like to submit a more formal review, we would welcome that as well.

Mike Porter
Chairman,AES Nashville

[dougb415]

Mike,

By all means feel free to use any of my comments. My wife and I will put together a more detailed review and I'll send that out to you within the next few days at the latest. Thank you for a wonderful weekend! I'll get back to you soon.

-Doug Budzak

[popmann]

Sorry I missed this. I'd love to hear some of my tracks "taped"...

Anyone willing to post clips?

[cjmnash]

Originally Posted by dougb415

Chris,

We came by the booth but you were one BUSY dude! Hope it was a good time at 1979 tonight.

man- sorry we didn't get a chance to talk...you should've just kicked me to get my attention! things at '79 went great- so well that i had to go in the next morning to finish running people's tracks to tape and burn DVDs for them to hear at home!

Originally Posted by dougb415

Just got back. WOW. Now that is my kind of weekend! ... and there were so many more fine, fine moments. Lynn Fuston! Excellent presentation, nowhere near enough time for all the info he wanted to share.

Lynn is an amazing guy with awesome insight!

Originally Posted by dougb415

Rich Adler showed us how he gets great recordings of acoustic guitar and mandolin.

Rich is great too- and SUCH a nice guy. he stopped by '79 and chatted for a while about the conference.

the "taste test" we hosted at Welcome To 1979 went until about 3am; and during the nite i saw mike spitz, john french, randy blevins, rich adler and steve (from sonic craft) all talking and pointing at tape machines. god knows how many years of experience were in the room that nite!!! LOL

Originally Posted by popmann

Sorry I missed this. I'd love to hear some of my tracks "taped"...

Anyone willing to post clips?

not sure what you mean about posting clips- but you can PM me and we can talk about getting some of your tracks 'taped' via my service 'analog anywhere'.

-chris mara
BTW- ATR tape rocked! check out my findings on the taste test thread:
Analog Taste Test- Nashville, TN Feb 20th

[dougb415]

Chris,

I hope you got to sleep all day Sunday! Sounds like you were busy (which is a good thing).

My wife made a slideshow of pics from the NRW+E. Click on the link in my sig for some of the highlights. I have a few typos to fix but I think folks should be able to get the general 'vibe' of the event.

-Doug Budzak

[cjmnash]

loved the slideshow doug!

yea, i got to chill a good bit on sunday- thanks!

chris

[Rappy]

Does anyone have a recording, notes, or transcript of the "Small Room - Big Sound" workshop? I am really interested in what they had to say.

Thanks,

Rappy

[dougb415]

I have around 12 hrs of audio to sort thru but should be able to get an audio file or CD for you by end-of-week.

One of the best things (for me anyway) in that session was Carl Tatz explaining how to set your monitors for the sweet spot. The tweeters in your monitors should be 67.5" from each other, and the same distance from your mixing chair. You need to be *inside* that triangle to hear the sweet spot; outside it you will be hearing the speakers. My room will only allow me to do 64" but it made a hell of a difference from where they were before.

-Doug

[Rappy]

Thanks Doug! I can mail you a Self Addressed Stamped Envelope with a couple of blank DVDs in it if that makes it easier for you. I also have 10 or 20 hours of audio lectures from a VERY famous engineer that I'd be willing to send you as a trade. Send me an email for more info: danrappaport@hotmail.com

Thanks!

Rappy

[Magellin]

While you're in town might be a good idea to check out Michael Wagner's place if he's still doing seminars, as well as cool studios such as Blackbird, etc.

[dougb415]

Michael Wagener was on one of the panels. Funny stories, great pics from WireWorld, ie recording King's X drums outside in his yard because the studio "wasn't right."