Tracks recorded for The Eagle Theatre’s Native Gardens
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Heavens Edge
Reggie Wu and Steve Parry stopped in to track some guitars for an upcoming release. Reggie insisted on taking a selfie. I normally don’t have a beard. In fact, it’s already gone.
The Page: LauraLea Taraskus
Ed Corsi in with Brian Morris to do video/audio shoot for “The Page” web site with LauraLea Taraskus.
The Page: Brian Bortnick
Ed Corsi in with Brian Morris to do video/audio shoot for “The Page” web site with Brian Bortnick.
NOiR Band Recording
“The Eagle Five” in to record backing tracks for Tim Rinehart’s one man show NOiR.
Keys
Trumpet
Sax
Upright
Drums
NOiR Voice Over
Tim Rinehart in to record the many voice overs in his one man show NOiR.
Moving to New Location
Throughout July 2018, I’ll be moving WombatStudio.Org from Philadelphia, PA to Gibbsboro, NJ.
The NE Philadelphia Mayfair basement re-model that I started August 2017 didn’t go as planned due to many little things that amounted into nothing getting done the way I wanted.
April 21, 2018, sitting on Reggie Wu’s couch while my son Frank was completing his guitar lesson, I was skimming Facebook and I saw an ad for “musician’s dream house for sale” and the rest is history.
We settle Friday, June 29, 2018.
The house has a soundproofed studio built into the basement already. It includes a control room, a live room, a guitar iso room and a lounge. The 3 windowed control room looks out into 1. the drummer’s area, 2. the main live room and 3. where the guitar amps go. There are gobos that can shape the room differently if needed.
Parking! I find it hard to find a spot close to my own row home anymore. The new place has ample parking and I will always have a spot to park as well as those making music.
Woods, isolation from neighbors, there’s even a fireplace! I can’t wait.
But, for those that were happy with the convenience, there’s no longer a toilet in the main room.
Rock of Ages
Figured I would share one of the many things I do but don’t post on the website. The Eagle Theatre had Rock of Ages to begin their 2017 season. It sold out every night and even the added performance. I run the live sound at the theatre.
This is the Rock of Ages session that was recorded for the theatre’s archival purposes. I’m remixing it to sound WAY better than what the video guy got through the board. This consists of Drums, bass, 3 guitars, 2 keyboards and 14 vocals – also in the session is the conductor’s mic, a spare mic that lived on stage that sometimes was sung into as a prop, a MAC channel for sound effects and finally, the camera audio which is more of the room. You can click on the image for a 4k screenshot of the Pro Tools session.
Live sound is much different, and in this show’s case, the drums being in the room never made it into the PA, hence, not the board recording.
I asked for a low res video of the show so the remix can sound like it should by looking like it should. If I decide to get fancy and start panning stuff, I want to make sure I go where the performance came from.
Anyway, it’s tedious and very time consuming so you better love what you do, and who doesn’t love mixing audio?
This session is approximately 2 hours long. That’s about how long it took Andrew Scheps to explain to me how he mixed Green Day’s “Bang, Bang” which is a 3:26 song. Considering that it takes anywhere from 4-10 hours to actually mix a 3:26 song, think of the time I’m spending in this Rock of Ages session. *sigh* Also, everything has to be automated within one session to create one resulting file. Can’t break them up and mix each individually so all levels, mutes, etc have to be done on a consistent two hour audio file.
… and they always ask how long it’s going to take – why does it take so long …
Britny Fox – Girlschool Video
Recorded, mixed and mastered the audio for Britny Fox LIVE video of Girlschool from the November 14th, 2015 TLA sold out show (where I mixed FOH as well).
Heavens Edge – Rock Steady Video
Recorded, mixed and mastered the audio for Heavens Edge LIVE video of Rock Steady from the November 14th, 2015 TLA sold out show (where I mixed FOH as well).