Posts by: Jeff

EC: DIll Pickles, Percussion Ensemble

By On May 7, 2012 · Leave a Comment

Dill Pickles

 

Pre:

I had planned to spend about 30 minutes for set up, about 15 for levels and balance, 55for recording, and 20 for take down.  I was going to have the Rode NT4 as a room mic in front of the xylo and then the AKG C451s as close mikes on [...]

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Straight Razor

By On May 7, 2012 · Leave a Comment

Straight Razor

 

Pre-Recording:

We have the studio from 10-1, so about 20-30 minutes for setup, about 20 minutes for levels,  1 and half hours for recording guitar, bass, voice, and harmonica.  About 30 minutes for retakes/random extras and 20 minute take down.

I put one AKG C451 pointed just below the sound hole [...]

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By On April 16, 2012 · Leave a Comment

inbox:bus

 

I sent my vocals and piano to a bus to use a common reverb and do some eq to bring out more lows.  It saved alot of memory and really opened up the bottom end.  It was fairly simple to figure out.

 

outbox: removed my account, will find or redo soon

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Frank Zappa

By On April 3, 2012 · Leave a Comment

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d7/Frank_Zappa_Weasels_Ripped_My_Flesh.jpg

 

-True Composer and Producer

-Had very little formal education, but decided at 14 to be writer/composer

Heavily R&B Influenced

Ruben And The Jets – I Wanna Know

 

-Became an obsessive producer, with a 3.5 million dollar home studio

-Produced over 70 albums

-Had two engineers on hand at all [...]

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Your Song

By On March 28, 2012 · Leave a Comment

Your Song

 

Pre

I had the studio from 9:30 to 10:30

9:30-10:00  Set-UP

10:00-10:15  Levels

10:15-11:15  Recording

11:15-12:00  Doubling/buffer time

12:00 – 12:30  Take down

I attempted to use sketch and failed, so here is my very amateur paint sketch.

The new elements were recording a woowind (saxophone), recording a piano, Live studio [...]

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Closure

By On March 6, 2012 · Leave a Comment

finality1

 

I basically equed almost everything, trying to bring out warmth while still making sure everything still had its own place in the mix and punchyness.  I also compressed quite a few of the instruments for mainly dynamic control.  Some gates were used for the various kit instruments trying to get more isolation. [...]

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Dynamics

By On February 28, 2012 · Leave a Comment

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For this I tried to limit the compression that I used, putting only on the vocals, lead guitar, bass, kick, and snare.  Each mainly used the presets with a little bit of tweaking as necessary.  This basically was just giving the song a few tweaks here and there to make it shine as [...]

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eq

By On February 17, 2012 · Leave a Comment

For this mix I tried to let each track reside in it’s own frequency with mainly boosting.  I mainly focused on the kick, base and snare while still slightly eqing the higher ends.  I really tried to get rid of the sharpness of the first 3 mentioned, especially fleshing out the snare.  In addition the [...]

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Jeff Meyers Panning

By On February 10, 2012 · Leave a Comment

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In this mix I panned everything but the drums.  I tried to only slightly pan everything and even distribute what I panned left and right.  I put the rhythm and bass guitars to the left and the vocals, lead, and piano to the right.  My only harder panning was the intro guitar in [...]

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Jeff Meyers Balance

By On February 4, 2012 · Leave a Comment

leads1

This style I started with the lead vocals and somewhat the lead guitar.  I then balanced the rest around these but kept them highlighted.  This created a nice mix, but was slightly lacking in bass and drums

bass1

This I started with the bass guitar and slightly the kick drum.  After I [...]

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