The studio I recently left after 2.5 years used PrivateQ multichannel
headphone systems; very effective, flexible, and quite loud. The
assistant on a major label tracking date came into the shop one day with
a set of phones, told me he thought they were bad. When he handed them
to me, they were almost too hot to hold.

He said that the bass player kept turning them up, because they were not
loud enough. I decided to go into the room to investigate further.

I walked into the love room between takes, prepared to sweet talk the
bassist and find out what was wrong. When I opened the door, there was
the bassist, with a knit cap on, and the headphones on over the cap. I
turned right around, walked out into the hallway, and told the assistant
he would have to respectfully ask the bassist to take of his goddam cap!



Deaf Mellon MESA wrote:
(orbb) wrote in message om...

The Mixerman Diaries were posted on Pro Sound Web a couple of years
ago, but were never completed. I have learned that they have been
completed and are out in book form. They can be had at
www.mixerman.net.

For those of you who are not familiar with them, they are the story by
an AE named Mixerman (who may post here - I'm not sure) who is
recording the "hot new band" named Bitch Slap for a major label. The
stories chronicle the recording sessions and all the problems. It's a
pretty good and very funny read.


Oh yeah! Read it everyday, a real disappointment when it ended. The
"buzz" claimed it was a complete fabrication conjured up by Fletcher,
but written by someone else. Loved the part about the replacement
drummer who required super loud headphones. The author claims they
drove the headphones so loud that the drivers caught fire. Not funny
if true, but still... damn those phones must have been loud. :)

Sure miss the daily adventures.

DaveT

--
Stephen Anderson

~At the end of the day, it's all about
the music