Is your engineer charging by the hour?
From Previous posts:
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He is being paid on a weekly basis with all expenses,
flight, lodging, gourmet food, etc. I even paid him for some upfront
consultation fees by sending him pictures of my room and he AutoCAD some
designs for acoustic treatment for some of the walls among other things.
Again,... we have worked on several projects in the past in another studio
and had wonderful results.
I had a nice room to begin but he has improved it and now most all of my
gear has been moved and the walls are almost finished.
Of course we have been doing a myriad of other things as well. Many 4
o'clock in the morning nights. Ugghh! Well that didn't make any sense. I
just woke up
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I have spent thousands of dollars acoustically treating what I thought was a
good room to start with. The room is roughly 16'x40' and has sloped
cathedral ceilings
with tung and groove wood paneling on the ceiling and carpet on the floor.
The room is unique in many ways for recording that I can't write about and
you
would have to see it. The ceiling starts at around eight feet and goes up
to roughly 13'7".
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I am the artist/producer and I feel more like a purchasing agent these days.
I have
two other associates here all multitasking almost 24/7 with a deadline. We
have a record contract and are upgrading my studio all across the board with
a very good engineer who is working hard to fit in with my budget and the
equipment I already have. Yeah,...I was going to go to LA (Record Plant)
then it was New York, then it was Nashville and then I looked at all of my
gear and then realized we are going to have to do this all over again and
again. I considered the hotels, blocking time, etc. I have done this before
(major studios that is) and I wanted a more relaxing environment here at my
studio with a great room but lacking acoustic treatment and a myriad of
other things. I truly have purchased it seems like a thousand items as of
late for the engineer who I have worked with before in state of the art
studios and now my studio has been almost completely redesigned. I have
never worked so hard in my life. Therapeutic rant over. May the recording
begin. Uggghhhh! We are still around a couple of weeks away. Remember I am
sleep deprived so anything I have said cannot be used against me.
If I knew what I know now I should have said we are a month away before
tracking
"Laurence Payne" lpayne1NOSPAM@dslDOTpipexDOTcom wrote in message
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On Sat, 28 Apr 2007 22:05:23 -0700, "Here In Oregon"
wrote:
My question is how long should it take to EQ a room that has been
sonically
treated and is fundamentally a good room to begin with? Subjective
question
I know. Actually a stupid question.