10-08-05
hmm? 
Besides watching the Braves? 
Not much this weekend for a change. Going to sleeve the cables inside my pc, put in a 6600GT, wash some dishes, and do some clothes.
The LAWN. Yucko…
TG
TG, the lawn can be delightful experience with the right frame of mind. Bounce around on the tractor for a few hours with the mind off. I did the front part of mine today. More tomorrow…
Right now I’m sitting in the studio office, taking a break from some of the reorganizing I’ve been doing. All the gear is a few rooms over…off. I have to solder some different ends on one of the patchbay multi-pairs to get it ready for loading a few more compressors into the big gear rack. The soldering part is easy. Pulling out the Scully 4 track so I can load 2 of the comps into the rack, and snaking that cable behind the 2" machine and the ProTools rack to get to the patchbay is something I’m trying hard to avoid. Whatever I don’t get done will hafta wait 'till next week, 'cause the Chicago Marathon goes by here tomorrow (much traffic to avoid) and the White Sox have home games 2 blocks to the south on Tuesday and Wednesday (WAY more traffic and craziness then anyone should have to deal with). I love this place, but I don’t want to be around for those events…
Working on absolutly nuttin’
TG, if you work on the lawn for winter, next year you’ll be mowing mowing mowing.
clava, we all live vicariously through you.
Changed some drums heads.
Watched the Japanese Grand Prix.
Recorded a demo of an idea that’s been in my head for a while.
Went to see Michael W Smith (and Delirious) at the Royal Albert Hall (London) last night (sunday). Excellent. Great seats, right by the stage. Lots of chance to oggle at the kit. Managed to start some Mexican waves that went right round the place. Most influence I’ve ever had in my life!
Busy and productive w/e. Tired now though.
Mark
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| TG, the lawn can be delightful experience with the right frame of mind. Bounce around on the tractor for a few hours with the mind off. I did the front part of mine today. More tomorrow... |
Hey Clava,
Im impressed to be in the prescence of someone who's lawn is so big, it takes a few hours on a tractor to mow it
Ah! How the wealthy live!
I mean to say, 5 minutes with the Hover mower, and the Maid has cut mine
Cheers,
Bruffie
Heh. Yeah about an hour on the mower and mine is done. Most of the time Saturday was raking up leaves and fallen limbs. Just a good yard clean-up. The rest of the leaves will be coming down soon. I hate raking those stupid things up… Now me mother in-law has a HUGE yard with a gazillion leaf shedding trees… oh the joy…
TG
I spent a good part of the weekend making cables. Just got some new powered subs for the PA and I was “testing” them a good part of the weekend. Imagine the Sponge Bob episode where the jelly fish take over his house and turn it into a disco… It was something like that, but more polka was involved. Past that, I helped our bass player write a resume, washed the dishes, ate and drank too much with the folk dance group, and generally slept in.
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I wish I knew how they live myself, Bruffie. Fortunately, an old broken down house and 2 acres of land is very cheap in Indiana.
Actually, I have about as much sunk in the studio as I do my house. Which brings me to:
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Live any way you choose, Tom. I’m here to tell you that having almost 6 figures worth of boat anchor tied around my neck every day comes with a fair amount of stress. It’s great having nice gear and a good set of rooms to use it in, I just wish more of the operating expenses came out of clients, and less from my pocket. I’d love to quit my day job and work there all the time, but that would mean I’d have no money to tide me over the lean times, like I’ve been experiencing lately.
It’s still a great place though, and I do love working there. It means I’ll never have a wife or kids or a social life, but if I really wanted those things, I wouldn’t have a studio for hire. So many choices available in one’s life…
Running one’s own business is like that. I tried it for a couple of years. Although not in a crazy business like the one you chose!
I wonder how many n-Trackers are close enough to your place to come and rent it for a weekend… ?
This weekend I’m… or now I should say week, I’m taking the time to re tune my drums, and do some research on different drum heads.
That way I can lay my drum tracks down on my bands new album we are working on.
I had a hard time. The church choir had to sing at a special event at knotsberry farm but they had there own people and did not want me or other engineers but the choir wanted me. So I was only there as a member of the choir and knotsberry farm had very good people but I wanted to handle the mixing but they would not let me. And I think I would have done better. The people there only used one microphone with a 32 piece choir and it was not good. And they had an orchestra and that was mixed good. But the choir sounded like mud.
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| I wish I knew how they live myself, Bruffie. Fortunately, an old broken down house and 2 acres of land is very cheap in Indiana. Actually, I have about as much sunk in the studio as I do my house. |
In that case Clava. I take back my flippant comment and wish you luck mate! ( which was intended to be vaguely humorous and a self-parody, hence the crack about my maid mowing the grass)
Cheers,
Ian
Gideon, isn’t Knott’s an amusement park?
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| I wonder how many n-Trackers are close enough to your place to come and rent it for a weekend |
Don’t really know. Anyone on this board is always free to contact me to investigate working at our place. I have a kinda standing deal with the Chicago TapeOp community where my help comes along free with a slightly reduced studio fee, and anyone on this board is welcome to ask me about that. I don’t really advertise here, since it’s Flavio’s board, not mine, but since you bring it up…
We’re not an n-Track studio, but ProTools will record .wav data (we have an older 5.1 TDM system, so we’re 24 bit, 44.1kHz), and we do have a 2" machine (a 1979 MCI JH-16 that’s in very nice shape with recently relapped heads). Folks tracking basics and taking files home for mix and overdub is a regular part of our business.
And Ian, I kinda figured you were joshin’ me, but I’m used to people who have 20-30 acres of land to maintain. Compared to that, my 2+ acres is chump change. I think cheap land is one of the only saving graces of where I live…
Oohhh, I want to do tracks to the MCI…
Clava, post a link to your website?