Chuck Rees wrote:

Patrick Covert wrote...

Harvey Gerst's web site www.itrstudio.com has some really good
articles on preparing for your sessions.

Good info there, thanks. Harvey Gerst's name is mentioned so much on
the internet its scary. His posts convinced me to pick up a pair of
MXL 603s.

Harvey is a provider of terrific information, wonderful humor, all
delivered concisely. Amen.

The producer thing would no doubt be excellent. I'm applying for a
grant from factor.ca to do this thing. If I get it, I'll likely hunt
down a producer from Detroit (I live in Windsor, Canada). Any names
you can throw at me? (I'm on a budget)

Why not ask this guy for suggestions: Mark Plancke? g

(RD Jones) wrote...

Hey if you have that kind of cash why not just get yourself a laptop
and some software? Build your project at your convienience. Your
musician's will be able to give you the best advice about what they
want in tonalities.

You can always get someone to help you mix/master it later, probably
one of your musicians who has good recording experience (listen to
their mixes).

This is the 21st century dude.

When I lay down the final tracks. I don't want to be thinking about
production concerns. Especially when I do the vocals tracks, I'll
listen to some Bono/Freddy Mecury and put everything into the
performance. I'll be in another world.

You're being smart. People want to think they can do it all; nine times
out of ten they can, but they can do it all ****tily. 99 times out of
100 memorable music had someone apart from the musos handling production
(and engineering) responsibilities.

Music that is well tracked almost mixes itself. If it's poorly tracked
mixing takes way too much time, which becomes very costly, and the final
result rarely satisfies. Thinking one will just buy a laptop and
software overlooks what is really involved in making good recrodings,
the most important of which is often the room in which the work will be
done. Besides that, the mic pres in my laptop are not my favorite... And
building your project "at your convenience" often means the project
never becomes a product. Distractions intrude, train of thought and
focus is lost, and the benefit of full attention to a job is foregone.

Lots of folks have squandered an amount of money that could have made
them a record, spending it on gear they had little knowledge of to use
in an inappropriate space in a process of which they had little or no
experience or understanding.

I don't have a lot of cash, I'm just willing to make some sacrifices.
If I go broke and the disc falls flat I'll still feel like the
luckiest guy on the planet.

Good for you. Good luck.

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