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Post by jeremygillespie on Feb 14, 2022 5:37:42 GMT -6
And what does it say about "Today's Music"? (Drops Mic)  Chris That wasn’t today’s music. That was from 20 years ago. One of the really cool parts is how a lot of that stuff was put together by a young Mike Elizondo. Young upright jazz trained bass player that wrote incredible hooks for most of dr dre’s songs. He came up to be one of the most in demand session players and producers in La. check out his credits. I thought it was fun |
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Post by jeremygillespie on Feb 12, 2022 13:09:34 GMT -6
Okay - hit me with what you guys like. I’ve had a Strat body laying around forever. I used the neck for a coodercaster build that I did a few years ago and I do love the way that neck feels on that guitar so I’m going to leave it. Gonna order up a new neck from fender and some new pickups but there are so many damn options out there. What do we all like?
Looking for early to mid 60’s thing. Probably flat pole pieces.
Go!
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Post by jeremygillespie on Feb 10, 2022 12:02:47 GMT -6
I haven’t gotten to that one yet - I’ve been stuck on Truth About Vintage Amps!
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Post by jeremygillespie on Feb 2, 2022 21:34:20 GMT -6
Not sure how I’ve managed to make it this long without covid hitting home, but it’s getting close. My Uncle Kerry just went on a vent 2 days ago.
He gave me my first Strat and has always been extremely encouraging and helpful to me throughout the years. He played bass with Gary Puckett and the Union Gap, had a super cool solo career with badass session cats playing on his records, was a LA session bgv singer, and wrote some super popular songs after moving to Nashville. Here is a really nice write up from a close friend and co-writer from Nashville who has better ways with words than I do.
“ You need to know a little about Kerry Chater. He is an original member of Gary Puckett and the Union Gap. He played the bass and dressed up in those wonderful civil war coats. They had hits like “Young Girl, get out of my mind” and “Woman…wo wo wo woman”. Kerry came to Nashville from the West Coast after a solo artist and writers deal in L.A. In Nashville he was signed to big publishing houses here in Music City and had BIG songs recorded. He wrote things like “I Know A Heartache When I See One” by Jennifer Warnes, “You Look So Good In Love” by George Straight, “I.O.U” by Lee Greenwood, “You’re The First Time I Thought About Leaving” by Reba McEntire, the list goes on and on. Then he met the love of his life, Lynn Gillespie-Chater and married her. Here’s where it gets really good, lol…I got a deal on Atlantic records and my producer was Ray Baker. He uncovered a song called “Trouble At The Door” written by none other than Kerry and Lynn Chater. I loved the song so we went in and recorded it for my record. The record company loved the song so much that they made it the title of my album! That’s how I met and fell in love with the Chater’s. Of course the song hit the Billboard charts at the bottom with an anchor so I basically torpedoed their lovely song but they loved me anyway and we started our writing relationship. We wrote every week for years and years and have quite a fat catalog of songs together. During this wonderful writing journey we are on, I’ve managed to learn a whole bunch about the Chater’s and they’ve learned a whole bunch about me so we dubbed each other family because, well…we ARE! I’ve recorded things we’ve written together like…”All The Way To Bethlehem”, “I’ve Seen The Light Of The World”, “He’s Not Mine”, “A Little Less Gone” and more. They are an important part of my career and my life, I don’t know who I would have been without them. In fact, when Kerry was a choir director, he and Lynn teamed up and decided to talk me into joining their choir. I came to one rehearsal and fell completely in love with all the church folks…I joined and it became one of the greatest times in my life. We’ve shared many meals together, many struggles together and SO MUCH laughter together. I simply love them so. Kerry needs a miracle today and if I’m not asking you all too much, would you help me pray for one. The more souls joined together on his behalf the better, right? With that being said, go have yourselves a day filled with love for one another today, okay?”
So...
Spread love, be kind, be safe, fuck covid. Hoping he can pull through...
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Post by jeremygillespie on Jan 29, 2022 18:28:39 GMT -6
Woods resonate differently. A fat honking neck resonates differently than a skinny neck you’d find on a Jackson. How you hold the guitar allows it to resonate in certain ways. That translates to how the strings resonate, and in turn how it’s seen by the pickup.
Everything matters. (And nothing matters)
(And yes a nitro guitars sound different than ones with a thick ass poly plastic finish)
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Post by jeremygillespie on Jan 26, 2022 13:04:32 GMT -6
I’d bus everything to a print track and monitor that track while you are printing. I know I’m in the minority here but I NEVER trust the render. I always want to listen to the entire track while I’m printing to make sure I’m hearing what I’m getting. So forgive my ignorance here, Jeremy. If I print to another track, that is still in the same 24/96 format and still in native Reaper format as well, correct? So I'd still need to render or do some type of conversion to get that printed version into .wav or .mp3 format, including a lower resolution like 24/48. Am I understanding? There should be a way to just export the .wav print file. I have never used Reaper though. In pro tools you just select the wav form and hit shift/Apple/K And it brings up a prompt that allows you to put the file wherever you want it and what format etc. Having your print in the actual session is a life saver though. Every time I open a mix session I do a “save as” , rename the session, and name the print track the same as the session. I’ve gone through rounds of recalls only to have the band get together and even though we may be on recall #5 they now prefer recall #3 and want to make a change to that one. So now, I go to that session, check my notes and recall my mix gear, switch back and forth between input and the print track to get it sounding exactly the same, and away we go. If I didn’t have that reference point I’d spend a lot of time chasing my tail. Organization is key and it saves my ass all the time. |
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Post by jeremygillespie on Jan 26, 2022 10:03:03 GMT -6
I’d bus everything to a print track and monitor that track while you are printing.
I know I’m in the minority here but I NEVER trust the render. I always want to listen to the entire track while I’m printing to make sure I’m hearing what I’m getting.
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Post by jeremygillespie on Jan 24, 2022 7:20:18 GMT -6
The spectra 610 has an incredibly fast peak limiter in it. Super effective. Always loved 1176/3A combo. I’d love to have a front end with like 8 of the spectra “complimiters” ...someday! For some reason I feel like they never really caught on for the peak limiter use. |
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Post by jeremygillespie on Jan 24, 2022 7:17:27 GMT -6
I think the weight of it would be a major PITA. I know just trying to mount or remove my 6 slot lunchbox with built in power supply is a total pain to deal with when I have to move it or bring it to another studio. Just a thought!
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Post by jeremygillespie on Jan 21, 2022 10:15:04 GMT -6
So I heard this on the news this morning - threw on Bat Out of Hell.
Never realized how much of a Phil Spector stylized production Took The Words Right Out of My Mouth has going on. Bgvs, single note counter melody, tambo, the verb. Not sure how I’ve missed that for all these years.
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Post by jeremygillespie on Jan 20, 2022 16:41:53 GMT -6
Any update on this Jesse? He's probably moving couches in between trying to finish whatever records he can. Or at least that's what I did when I lost my space w/90 days notice years ago... Anywhoo. I thought about both you guys yesterday. Took the nickle tour of a really killer location. Hadn't planned to but just kinda fell together. Remember the guy we talked about that planned to build a room about 5 miles up the road from us? Dead. Not happening. Partner fallouts & buyouts. However the space itself is still available and hail Satan. Real easy to see why they fell in love with it. Amazing potential. Lotta meat on the bone... but easily enough to eat someone alive. Needs everything. Starting with an electrician... but what a room. I'll send you a message. We should really do that lunch thing! Yes for sure - time keeps slipping away from me with renovations and all haha. I slipped into Ritchies the other day to pick up some strings real quick. Didn’t even know they moved locations. Said they had some building going on. They putting a studio in that place? I remember Seymour saying something about that when I saw him at the last Aes show I went to. |
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Post by jeremygillespie on Jan 20, 2022 7:14:05 GMT -6
Any update on this Jesse?
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Post by jeremygillespie on Jan 16, 2022 14:36:52 GMT -6
The rye, or the cocktail? The rye. Past few days. Straight, rocks, with a drop of dry sherry, and my favorite is two shots over ice with just a splash of zevia cola. Okay Ward school me - what’s with the dry sherry?!?! |
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Post by jeremygillespie on Jan 10, 2022 12:52:44 GMT -6
Yeah Mobile/transportable rigs seem to be the way forward. Multichannel utilitarian gear or racks over special pieces except for a few pieces. More are moving ITB as plugins get better but a the selection of great ones is still pretty pitiful vs analog. Monitor speakers with computer modeled waveguides or cthat work in worse rooms are getting more common but they're not really better than they were a a few years ago or better than the more traditional speakers. Hopefully Kali will produce a successor to the sick JBL 708. That's how it is for me. Light enough footprint of a studio rig to move from place to place without taking several days. It's a great "way of being" that you brought up LPEdrum!! I've sort of done this out of necessity, but it's also a cheaper studio to buy and outfit, for anyone with less of a budget. You can be a bit of a music nomad. Just ask me about some good plugins and I'll recommend you them, LOL!! Big stacks of racks aren't really on the menu. Although I do have three and two halves of these wimpy SKB style things that are easy enough to pick up and move, if needed. One thing I've seen "Producers" do is get these heavy duty touring racks, flight cases, like 18U or something, with casters on the bottom, so you can roll them out to your truck or whatever, and roll them in to the space that you're producing in. It's like the "big studio" setup but still vaguely nomadic. Nigel Godrich has one of these rigs he calls it his "home studio" which is hilarious because it's $100,000s of thousands of vintage high end gear, plus a tape machine and an API console. Probably take you a full day or so to set this kind of thing up if you really bust ass and have a couple helpers. Ryan Freeland has a setup like this. All gear is in road cases that he can pack up and ship wherever. Even though he has a very nice studio setup, he can move wherever. I believe he shipped his entire rig, mic stands and all out to the east coast to track the Ray Lamantagne record he did. |
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Post by jeremygillespie on Jan 8, 2022 18:16:34 GMT -6
Time for you guys to sign up for a Coinbase account.
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Post by jeremygillespie on Jan 8, 2022 17:04:40 GMT -6
I’m gutted for you.
I’m also more than sure you’ll find a solution, land on your feet and hit the ground running.
Also if you need a room cheap to finish out any projects hit me with a pm. If you can make it to north NJ I can hook you up.
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Post by jeremygillespie on Jan 7, 2022 8:15:43 GMT -6
I think wetransfer is the easiest. I have an account that saves all my sent files, I can password protect things, allow clients a 24 hour login window.
Just upload, send a link to the file in an email, they click it and it downloads. Doesn’t get easier than that.
I will never use Dropbox. If somebody tries to send me something via Dropbox I ask them to resend using wetransfer. Total junk service imo.
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Post by jeremygillespie on Jan 4, 2022 19:00:16 GMT -6
Martin you can always jump the NJ transit out of the city to Denville when I get the Barn build-out done if you ever need a big room. (whoops haven’t started yet) 😬
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Post by jeremygillespie on Jan 4, 2022 14:05:13 GMT -6
Kinda jonesing for a Bass VI after watching the Beatles thing...
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Post by jeremygillespie on Jan 4, 2022 12:08:38 GMT -6
Martin I can probably hook you up with a delta for a stupid low price if you wanted one.
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Post by jeremygillespie on Dec 29, 2021 15:32:37 GMT -6
A friend gifted me a bottle of Elmer T Lee for Christmas. Awful nice of him. We all had a nice glass of that together. I had a bottle I’ve been saving for years that I ever opened because I love it so much I’m afraid to drink it.
He said he found it on the shelf for retail (bout $45).
Any time I’ve seen it around here it’s about $300. I’d never pay that. Nor should anybody honestly. Prices of this stuff is insane these days.
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Post by jeremygillespie on Dec 29, 2021 13:08:21 GMT -6
Picked up a new ev635a. I was sort of shocked at how small it was when I opened the box. Never used one before - we’ll see how useful it will be!
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Post by jeremygillespie on Dec 28, 2021 21:56:52 GMT -6
$50 an hour. If you need a studio that’s on you too.
Too many times I’ve gotten burned by the singer songwriter that is never happy and needs to do more and more and more etc etc and it’s never actually better. Just a different version of not as good as they think they are.
So, I’ll work on the same vocal take and meh guitar playing for as long as you can stand it. For $50 an hour
Honestly it doesn’t come to that much anymore. That price is just high enough to scare away the riff raff and to anybody serious it seems like a deal to them. So works in my favor both ways.
If I’m playing instruments, producing, or involved in the writing / scoring process that number goes up.
Works for me 🤷🏻♂️
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Post by jeremygillespie on Dec 27, 2021 22:38:36 GMT -6
I don’t trust cloud storage. If it’s not on 3 drives that I’ve put it on, it’s not backed up.
Also, don’t run sessions off your main internal hard drive.
Programs are run off my internal hard drive.
Sessions are run on a main external / 2nd internal
Lunch / dinner break / end of the day - sessions are backed up via Chronosync to 2 seperate backup drives. One stays at the studio the other comes home with me and goes in the safe.
Once project is mastered I compile all your stuff on your drives, neatly labeled etc etc etc. Client now takes the master and backup drives and I keep your sessions for 2 years as a courtesy. After that it’s on you.
Never lost a file or session in over 15 years. Works for me 🤷🏻♂️
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Post by jeremygillespie on Dec 24, 2021 9:17:34 GMT -6
I don’t have the funds to buy something like this, but if I did, I would sure as hell want the original bayonet style connector on there. That and the original c12 connector are so finely machined and makes handling those mics even more special.
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