i used to finish a 14 hour day of tracking and mixing only to go home to bed and dream of being at the console the whole night...... and waking up exhausted after sleeping for 8 hours.
that same thing used to happen to me, hence my hiatus. i still love it, so i broke at the right time i think.
before cassettes and 8 track tapes, some studios employed a low wattage transmitter so you could go outside to listen to a playback over the AM radio in a car.
thats cool. i have two of those, one bluetooth->FM, and one 1/8"-> FM that hooks up to anything. i actually got the idea from you in another thread while back. what im working on is the ability to make adjustments to the session, from the car. ideally with any device, but any laptop with a remote desktop connection is how im gonna start out, cuz im pretty sure thats gonna work. the idea being to make the adjustments right there as your hear them, possibly eliminating trips back to the car. also setting the same thing up over the web, so people can hear mix changes in their living room. things like EDnet have been around a while doing that, i just want a system that works on different devices, without any additional hardware or software.
The idea of another session coming in as a buzz kill never really occurred to me in that way, as I was in business to make money, it was my job, and like any job, you want the work to come in. It also provided you with breaks, which some of those sessions required. Sometimes it was best for me to come back the next day with fresh ears and finish a mix, as opposed to trying to get it all done in one day, although there were times I was able to get a mix done in just a few hours - it depended on the song.
ive definitely over mixed, many times. im never afraid to revert to an earlier mix if its better. mixing is sort like a little journey for me, so i enjoy even the shitty mixes, lol.
i had alot of free time to mess around, since most people only booked a couple days at a time, id play around in between. gigs helped pay bills. its interesting to see it from the perspective of the owner. i never had to pay the bills, if i got paid, the studio got its share, otherwise i had access, as a trade for building the two places for next to no $.
i always feel time constraints inhibit my creativity, with the extreme being just never ending mixes, i just have a hard time getting in the zone if i have scheduling things like that. deadlines are a different thing, those are helpful to me. creative freedom was big reason i wanted to start at a commercial place anyway, people would come home at 5 or 6, and i had no isolation at night. i tend to work by myself, when the mood strikes. a great recipe to be 33 and couch surfing lol. i learned that freedom comes at a price, the whole business side of it.
I wasn't doubting you pal, my curiosity was if it was the first "big" album to be recorded to - or mastered - using DASH.
And because it was done at Martin's place, it would most certainly have been tracked/mixed through the ISA Desk.
There were like only 10 of them ever made; I know Ocean Way still has one, I don't know how many others remain... I recall reading that at least one was completely trashed by Katrina, (and I think one was damaged badly by an earthquake in Japan?)
I'll have to watch the doc about the desk again... then again, that doc is probably 5 years old by now, so I don't know how many ISA's are still remaining since - that still work.
there was a documentary on the ISA's i belive there's 5 or 8 left? i know one college age guy has one in his bedroom in europe.
