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Daniel Bubert
Ok, so first off let me say that this will be painful to read as I am a terrible writer, unless maybe its song lyrics, in which case I'm really just OK. My Grammar and punctuation are terrible so be prepared for run-on sentences, spelling errors, and the like. Now to the task at hand. I enrolled back in december and delayed my start date to facilitate the completion of my band's 2nd full length record which we took upun ourselves to produce and record. Needless to say I was very much looking forward to getting started on my lessons and getting my ass into a real working recording studio. I spoke with my mentor Derek O'Brien the week before reading chapter one and we set out to meet the following tuesday. As I had taken a music technology class at Cal Poly Pomona back when I was 19 (before I dropped out of school to persue a life of flipping pizzas, making music, and consuming way too much alcohol) the lesson was exactly what I thought it would be and was mainly a short refresher course in the basics of sound and hearing. So, Back to the studio. DOB sound is a well put together two room studio that is comfortable and functional. The control room consists of a vintage trident mixing console that has been moded to allow a better signal to noise ratio etc. The live room consists of some really great acoustic treatments and it has been set up to be tuneable, in that some of these treatments are adjustable to allow for a more live or dead sounding room. This is a huge step up from my previous experience in "recording studios" that basically said, "here's this box with sound board on the walls, we'll make you soud amazing".
Night one at the studio felt more like a bro/audio geek hang than a student/teacher or mentor/apprentice situation. We briefly went over the lesson and then discussed my bands record and how we went about tracking it. I showed him a picture of our drummers kit all miked up and he pointed out my spaced pair overheads were quite close together and that I probably would run into phase issues so, of course the second I got home I fired up the old Sonar 8.5, threw on the headphones, and checked. I don't think that was the case. We'll see what Derek has to say when I bring him my final mixes. I'm excited and terrified to hear my mixes in a properly treated room.
Last night I was able to sit in on a mixing session. I don't have alot to say about it other that it was very helpfull in regard to automation and some of the different way that automation can be used, and was way more helpful than any silly how to video I've been able to fing out on the interwebs.
Thats enough of my run-on rambling for now. I'm looking forward to getting my Pro-Tools rig and learning more.
'Til next time. Party like a rock star!
