Welcome to the "Virtual Bar and Grille"

Posted: Fri Feb 23, 2001 9:05 pm

Give me an Oxycontin/70 mg.'s please...oh yeah and a Bud. Love the forum, what do I do...err wait a minute. OK I'm a Power-lineman by trade (for those of you who dont know, I fuck w/110v-345kva sometimes 750kva). I've been playing Guitar and recording since I was like 7 yrs. old or so (1965). Played around the Boston scene from 86-92 (had a steady gig at the channel w/in2-deep Saturday nights, backed up the fools,Extreme etc.).Built a studio (studio7) in Framingham Ma. around 90 or so, 16 track semi pro. Bought a house and got married (had to sell alot of my gear)...now I'm planning my comeback :> Fletcher's helped me out some w/purchasing decisions etc. Glad to be here. I'm also a C.S. major at Lowell tech. here in Mass. (I've been going over 9 years now!!)so if I can help you that way let me know.Dan

I Can't Wait · Posted: Sat Feb 24, 2001 6:36 pm

Hmmm! Didn't I see some of you at the watering hole down the street? Maybe I'm just getting shitfaced from all this bar hopping. I'm the one who usually sits in the corner... quietly... and just when you think I've passed out... I'll blurt out something that you'll have to think about for a couple of days. I'm 47. I've been in the music business since I was 12. I love my wife. I love my son. I love music. I love filmmaking. I hate liars. I hate braggarts. I hate LA.

Posted: Sat Feb 24, 2001 8:23 pm

Wow, GY, just checked out your web site - very cool. Nice equipment list. You were in a band called Sweetwater in L.A.? I was in a band called Sweetwater in L.A., too.

I Can't Wait · Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2001 8:14 am

Glad to meet you, Harvey. Thanks for the kind words. You appear to have been around the block a few times also. I got the name "Sweetwater" from a creek in the Sierra Nevada mountains I used to fish in as a kid. We were into that country rock groove at the time. A fan asked us if we were the original Sweetwater. That's when we learned that there was one before us. Great reading about the original (unless there was one before them!) at your site. GY

Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2001 9:12 am

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by GY: Glad to meet you, Harvey. Thanks for the kind words. You appear to have been around the block a few times also. I got the name "Sweetwater" from a creek in the Sierra Nevada mountains I used to fish in as a kid. We were into that country rock groove at the time. A fan asked us if we were the original Sweetwater. That's when we learned that there was one before us. Great reading about the original (unless there was one before them!) at your site. GY<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>LOL. I've been "around the block" so many times, I now have my own private rut!As far as I know, we were the first "Sweetwater", but the group ended kinda sadly, with a lot of the original members dying pretty young, and Nanci having a near-death accident, pretty much ending the group.

Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2001 8:58 pm

Pint of Old Peculier, if you will.Hello, all. I'm new to this joint, but not RO. Just thought I would introduce myself. I've been playing guitar for 14 years, but my main instrument is my voice. Got a brand new Tele last spring, and I still love it. I graduated (yes, I finished and I have the degree to prove it) from Berklee College of Music in Boston (hey Fletcher, how IS Beantown these days?) with a Bachelor of Music in Music Production and Engineering. While I was there learning from some of the best teachers around I was working at Newbury Sound. Then I moved to Austin, Texas and did some work at Pedernales. I ended up running a studio called Ben Blank Audio for the last two years, where I was able to hone my analog chops as well as build up my Pro Tools arsenal. Redesigned the control room while I was there, including re-wiring (what a PITA!) Did about 30 projects, and then moved to Saint Paul, MN. I currently have a PT LE rig that I use for small mixing projects (only 24 tracks; to me, that's small), editing, and mastering. I love my old Orban 622B blueface EQ and my 1/4" deck. Currently I am working with some of my clients from Texas on albums and movies, and looking for some cool artists to work with here in the Twin Cities. We're finally almost out from under the 4' or so of snow we had, and it sure is nice to get outside for more than the walk to the truck.That's about it. I don't want to bore y'all. Stop on by my booth, I'll be in the back under the burned-out bulb just an arm's length from the bar, or drop me a line sometime. I look forward to getting to know you.

Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2001 5:42 am

I'm a singer/songwriter/composer/player type of guy trying to learn about digital recording so as to get all those above mentioned personalities out of my head.I generally won't have much to say, my goals are to learn, so I'm a great listener.My main reason for speaking out at this moment is just to say this is shaping up to be a great site and is on my daily reading list. Keep up the great work.

Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2001 9:01 am

Cuervo, please, and leave the bottle...Greetings from the Nashville chapter of our sick little 'club'.... I'm probably one of the pups of the group, only been in the pro biz for 5-6 years now. Started out the whole trip as a little snot-nosed kid who was entranced by his dad's '70's wood-grained RCA cassette recorder (I think I still have those old pink Ampex tapes somewhere). Spent my youth learing alto sax, but that sure didn't attract any women! Followed my guitar-strangler/jazzbo brother and switched to bass guitar, then started to play in some punk/alt rock bands. Noodled around on an old Akai 1/4" reel to reel. One of my friends at the time had an 1" 8-track setup before we even graduated from high school, that bastard! Basically knew what I wanted to do about then. Went to the big recording school here in middle Tennessee (quite a culture shock seeing how I was raised in land of extremes Atlanta), played in all sorts of bands while going to college. Got a pretty good (cheap too) education, in my senior year I was luckily in the right place at the right time and got a gig as audio editor/post-prod./sound designer guy at a major music-for-tv/radio/jingle house in Nashville. Of course, I ended up learing 10 times more shit in the real world than in 4 & 1/2 years of college. Spend my work hours posting audio for major networks, cable, the occasional piss ant local station....playtime is for playing drums in a local avant/free improv group -- fuck charts!....still working at the tv-score/jingle house today -- in the time since, I've built up my home studio pretty nicely, mostly DAW based, but gets the job done. Probably will be moving ELSEWHERE sometime in the next year, don't get me wrong, Nashville is an 'easy' town: the studios are basically all right next to each other, good place to raise kids, fairly low cost of living, low crime, etc. but baby needs a little more excitement in his life! Rolling Eyes

yawn...Hey, you got any Ornette Coleman on the jukebox? oh, how about some Miles? really? jeez, what kind of place is this... Drew Rydberg (i forgot to put my name here...)

Posted: Sun Apr 01, 2001 10:30 am

Hi there,This is for sure one great place! Thanks to everyone who is contributing to this.After some time of reading posts, i went ahead and posted something the other day without even introducing myself. Feel like i'm asking for drinks without even knowing anyone. Sorry about that.So, to get to the point, I'm Mikael Makino and i'm from Sweden but currently live in Japan. I've been in and out of the music business the past 10 years or so, mostly in Sweden. Played in bands, studied music in college, did live sound at a jazz/blues/soul joint, worked at one of the major lables for a very short while (please forgive me, i was young and stupid. not that the latter has changed significanly, though...), went into writning about music and followed a couple of bands over here five, six years ago. I then came back on my own and stayed. Recording is probably where i have the least experience. Guess that's why i'm here - to read and to learn.During the past year i've been getting more and more into 'actual' music again (as opposed to writing about it), and discovering RO and a bunch of other hang outs and audio sites has really been a great help! Thanks again all you folks!Think i'm just going to hang over here for a while and enjoy reading.Cheers, Mikael Makino

Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2001 10:41 am

I'll take an Absinthe, sugarcube, glass of water and a spoon, bartender. Lot of great company around here but lookin' a little queasy. I've been doing the six string thing for 16 years (half my life)and first pressed the record button around that same point in history. I have seen the country several times by way of a van windshield, dirty floors and chemically poisoned blood you know, nothing unusual. Designing buildings by day, working with my partner at the 32 track studio we run at night and wishing to hell more talent was present in todays age. High points: Working with Gregg Allman, opening for Bob Dylan and the drum sound I got last night. Low points: I can't remember but my friends do. Good hangin' with y'all I gotta go figure out why this fucking AKG "The Tube" is humming like a Swedish working girl.

Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2001 8:37 pm

Wazzup Peeps! My name is Aaron(Mr.Q)Collie. I've been in the music biz approx 30 years mainly as a studio session man. My main axe is the bass, some keyboards,formerly a drummer and brass. I've recorded with "known" artists(no name droppin' here Smile

),recorded several LP's in the 70's early 80's,played large venues from NYC's Lincoln Center to NBC's Rainbow Room and lower Manhattan's Village Vanguard.Semi-retired in the late 80's,and decided to return the music scene in '92.I taught my son piano,bass and music theory of which won him a scholarship to a certain university in Georgia last year and a 7 year old daughter,whom I tried to involve in music but who would rather play with those d@mn Barbie dolls! Presently,I have built a nice lil project studio with soundroom and will be starting a band in late June early July with 4 pc horn section. I luv ALL music,but my personal preference is Jazz/Funk,R&B,/Classical Jazz,Funk/Rock/Jazz and Q-Jazz( some new sh#t I'm trying to develop Smile

) I'm a musician 1st,recordist 2nd learning and teaching every day! Peace Mr.Q

Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2001 9:11 pm

YO, YO, I DIDN'T MISS LAST CALL, EH?Double Jamison & Yuengling Lager, pleez...I got restless at the joint up the street, where I ran into Fletcha early on. He & I didn't like the looks of each other from the get go...some tables got knocked over, and we both went through the window, but we brushed ourselves off and shook hands.Anyhoo, I'm a Illadelph-based composer/musician/etc. Started out in the club circuit as a roadie, then FOH sound, then bandmember, and eventually expanded into bandleader. Got bored with that, and branched out into soundtrack orchestration. Currently building up a digital music-development studio, centered on Roland VS. Composed and published extended works for modern dance performance, TV pilot soundtrack, infomercials, etc. Currently closing in on feature-film deal. Two ASCAP Composer awards, and a Summit Creative Awards silver medal (big f*cking deal - show me the $$$).Still writing songs, tho (can't seem to get that muthaf*ckin' bug outta my ass), and a CD of recent songs is in the worx. Check out a sampling of out-dated shtuff at: <A HREF="http://www.mp3.com/TransluxTheater" TARGET=_blank>www.mp3.com/TransluxTheater</A> curvedominant

Posted: Thu May 03, 2001 8:02 am

Hello all, Heineken for me please. What a great place. I've been in the business about 10 years as a pro. Been recording stuff as long as I can remember. Started as a drummer and started mixing a lot of live stuff and moved into doing my own studio stuff and got addicted. Been working at Pyramid here in Ithaca, NY for the last 8 years and love working with my buddy Alex. We get to work with a lot of cool people and get to help lots of young new artists. Great to meet all of you. Tmightyj@lightlink.com

Posted: Sat Jun 02, 2001 7:18 pm

Red Bull (caffeine bomb) please with a mineral water chaser. Yarzz!! I hope you are up for clubbing later! Wadda ya mean NO! Shesh! The night is young, WELL I"M not tired anyway.. 41 year old teatotal (6 years) ex coke freak and still rock n roll madman engineer producer (er no thanks , but can you give my friend there a line, he look like he needs it!) American by birth and nationality , I reside in the UK after being dragged here as a child in the late 60's, Caught the Stones in hyde park, played gtr in punk bands. Joined a studio as a savey 22 year old and was the only guy there that liked 'that rock shit' as dance music flooded the UK studio scene... Split to live in Berlin to escape the UK's 1990's economic ressesion, & ended up starting & promoting an alt music club (plenty fun) While there produced a cover of Simon & Garfunkles "Mrs Robinson" by a band called The Lemonheads, a world wide 'alternative' hit, it became my ticket back into the mid 90's UK music scene & 'stuck' here ever since Smile

To this day I remain a midi dunce but not totaly computer shy, I have swapped tape for the total recall of Pro Tools. I put stuff 'in there' directly bypassing tape alltogether, with high quality outboard, some bought from or via fletcher (cheers mate!) I enjoy tracking and overdubbing but find mixing a stressfull but nessary blood-sweat-fest. I get kicks from suggesting counterpoint melody & alternate melodies to bands I work with that come in with 'bare bones' music. I find myself in a sudden rush to become a rich old man. To that end I have started a publishing company. I have alsojust started to make $$ selling audio gear via a dealer here I am tight with. (mostly digital) Working with new acts on the way up and running an all digital set up puts me in a prime position to be an advisor/agent to those wanting to get into DAW recording... I also hire gear out as a side buisness. I have ambitions to become a genial shark in the music industry. Presently I am a lightly battered barracuda! When I get a night off from the studio, I go out looking for new acts to work with. I am on on the bleeding edge of new talent discovery in the UK. It's rare for me to engineer only, I am a producer that gets work via reputation & recomendation + my nose for talent. I employ an assistant full time, I aim to bring him through to engineer for me as well as become a producer in his own right. Bring on the fizzy water! (We are going clubbing later right?) Smile

JulesP.S my spelling is really poor!

Posted: Sun Jun 03, 2001 9:14 am

Molson Blue please...live in the Motown area and I love the Canadian brew. I've been in the Detroit area for over 30 years, I came here on a basketball scholarship to U of D/Mercy until injuries and a lack of talent ended my Bball days. I've been a guitar player off and on for about 35 years and started recording on cheapy reel to reel about the same time. I was curious as to how records were made and why the sound quality varied so widely, so I enrolled at the RIAA course at "The Disk" in East Detroit (now Eastpoint) the school is now call RID. In my quest to learn about sound, I also became an "audiophile" (hate that word) and thus began a "serious" equipment addiction (guitars, studio gear and Hi-Fi). I landed a job at Ma Bell and at night I dabbled in live sound (some local bands) and a little bit of studio work as a bass player and some times second engineer. I left music in the 80s to get married and start a family, I have a great wife and three sons who all put up with my audio-music-studio crazyness. In the 80s I worked for EDS/GM, by 1990 I had my fill of Fortune 500 life and left to return to the hi tech music business. Today I still do consulting work in telecom networking but I also do a little audio work. I own a Sonic Solutions system and a Yamaha O2R, Apogee, Genelec, API and some nice outboard stuff. I work at home and I feel fortunate that I can do projects I want to do with out having to open up a "commercial" studio. This is my first post to any forum on the net, I've been reading this site for several months and the only advise that I could give anyone, is to use your ears and "learn" to listen, don't let anyone tell you which peice of gear to buy, we are all different ,our ears are truely sensitive instruments(oops...starting to rant). I enjoy this forum and all the great insight into the business and the equipment we use, I don't like the "flame wars" that go on (if you can"t say something good....) I think it hurts all of us when people go too far to express or defend ideas by reverting to personal insults......oops ranting again. Oh hell, just pass me another Molson!

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