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Post by jeremygillespie on Apr 2, 2021 18:57:57 GMT -6
I’m not a writer or really an artist, but the day after wrapping something like a 20-30 day marathon session I feel like I’ve got no place in the world. I sit at home and have no clue what to do because I’ve been on such a crazy no sleep, working, no eating routine, staying up super late, constantly having to be super focused with something to worry about etc etc etc. My mind goes blank and I freak out about not having anything to worry about. Takes about a week to come off of that.
Our minds are pretty odd things!
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Post by jeremygillespie on Apr 2, 2021 18:16:59 GMT -6
Well I got a good chuckle to myself.
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Post by jeremygillespie on Mar 31, 2021 17:04:43 GMT -6
You guys ever pay $9 for a dang Doug Fir 8’ 2x4 stud?! It’s freaking nuts right now. I snuck into the housing market right before the rise in prices but my current renovation is kind of killing me. try trying to buy your first home..seems almost impossible now. We just did! And prices and taxes in NJ Aren’t exactly low haha. We got lucky and wound up with a property that nobody seemed to want, low balled an offer and they took it. Lots of work needed but I have a background in framing and carpentry so it’ll be all sweat equity (already is). Most of my friends were buying houses 10 years ago somehow (awful loans), and they used to throw jabs my way about my shitty apartment and being a renter for as long as I was. But... we got what we wanted and will hopefully never have to go through that process again (it’s awful) |
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Post by jeremygillespie on Mar 31, 2021 16:59:26 GMT -6
Jimmy Page used a bow that wasn’t intended for an electric guitar. Whatever you find that gets the job done John!
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Post by jeremygillespie on Mar 31, 2021 15:33:57 GMT -6
You guys ever pay $9 for a dang Doug Fir 8’ 2x4 stud?!
It’s freaking nuts right now. I snuck into the housing market right before the rise in prices but my current renovation is kind of killing me.
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Post by jeremygillespie on Mar 29, 2021 16:42:07 GMT -6
I’d do a really nice vocal compressor that is set and forget. The distressor is cool, but with so many buttons and modes, you can easily get caught up in option overload, and start messing about with all that instead of concentrating on the music. If you’re familiar with that box then disregard that comment.
Honestly, I’d personally pre-pro the absolute shit out of the tunes at your place with your brother, then go into the studio for a day or 2 and use all of their cool gear. With a competent assistant that’s willing to let you run the room and make the decisions, that would be the best bet (if they have a room full of cool gear, mics, etc) and you can Have your run of the joint.
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Post by jeremygillespie on Mar 29, 2021 16:37:52 GMT -6
I’m wondering the reason for mixing into another system. Are you recording your mix at a higher sample rate or something? If not, there really isn’t any benefit to recording out of your system and then into another, unless you are hitting a 2-bus chain that gives you a certain mojo you’re after.
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Post by jeremygillespie on Mar 22, 2021 20:17:23 GMT -6
And I thought getting only stereo files from people labeled
audio1
audio2
audio3
audio4 etc etc etc was bad.
Let’s spend 2 hours of my day deciphering bullshit....
Sorry Doug I’m of no help, just here to pile on the complaints 😬
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Post by jeremygillespie on Mar 19, 2021 17:54:35 GMT -6
John, Elijah Craig is pretty nice as well - give it a shot if you can grab it on sale.
Oh and also the 1792 “Small Batch” is really nice.
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Post by jeremygillespie on Mar 19, 2021 17:51:36 GMT -6
Somewhat funny story ...now it is at least.
That Evan Willians Single was my favorite for years and you could get it for like $20 here.
My grandparents had a house in the woods that we spent our summers At, and every year at the end of the summer I’d stash away a bottle of that stuff with about 3 fingers left in it. The goal was to save up like 5 - 10 bottles or so over the years, and then have a fun little tasting session with my neighbor (lifetime best friend) and see what year we liked the best.
Well, I got 6 years in, and my older sister goes up one weekend to get a jump on spring cleaning. Memorial Day weekend rolls around and I head out there, one night I go to have a drink and my bottles are all gone except for one of them.
Hey anybody know where my bourbon bottles are at?
::sister:: “oh yeah those things were taking up so much room and they were the same brand so I combined them all into one bottle for you!”
🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
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Post by jeremygillespie on Mar 17, 2021 16:55:01 GMT -6
Sonarworks makes my Barefoot 01’s way more usable in my room. The low end dips and peaks I have really changed when I started using sonarworks.
I also have ns10’s that I use without it at low volume. They always sound the same in every room at the level I use them at and I know exactly what I need from them.
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Post by jeremygillespie on Mar 15, 2021 11:30:20 GMT -6
I thought it was the best one in about 15 years 🤷🏻♂️
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Post by jeremygillespie on Mar 15, 2021 7:39:43 GMT -6
Sometimes a bottle of Knob Creek soothes the palate and the mind. Just not the Maple one. ...unless you’re having pancakes! |
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Post by jeremygillespie on Mar 14, 2021 7:30:25 GMT -6
70’s Silverface champ with the Skip Simmons tone stack mod will turn it into a Tweed Princeton. Add a bigger box and a speaker and you’re set.
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Post by jeremygillespie on Mar 13, 2021 16:53:12 GMT -6
Keep the Supra!
Grass isn’t always greener 👍🏻
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Post by jeremygillespie on Mar 13, 2021 12:29:36 GMT -6
Elmer T Lee was a standout the last time I had a bottle. I don’t remember which specific one it was, my brother got it for me. Oh man If you can find that around you, you’re one lucky sunnovagun! Probably my favorite out of them all, but you can’t find it here, and if you can it’s over $300. I couldn’t bring myself to pay that much for a bottle of booze. |
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Post by jeremygillespie on Mar 13, 2021 9:24:52 GMT -6
Old Forrester 1910 - it’s really great!
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Post by jeremygillespie on Mar 12, 2021 9:46:38 GMT -6
As an artist right now, you need to be on streaming and YouTube etc in order to grow an audience. Grow the audience, make the music as accessible as possible, then figure out how to market to the core audience in order to make money via an LP, signed merch, Patreon, etc etc.
Taking it off steaming makes absolutely no sense when what you want to do is make your music easily available to all. Just my $.02 and I totally get most don’t agree haha
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Post by jeremygillespie on Mar 10, 2021 9:09:43 GMT -6
Hope it works out. That’s a great sounding unit for sure!
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Post by jeremygillespie on Mar 6, 2021 12:58:44 GMT -6
I didn’t realize you worked at Showplace. I didn’t hear of Ben’s passing until months after unfortunately. That console was pretty cool you could keep feeding it and it would just take it and not blow up! Did he have the pair of black germanium Neve channel strips while you were there? The black 1058... no... but I had used them. Those were owned by Jason Corsaro and he brought them along when he booked the room. Ben got them after Jason passed away. I live somewhat near the studio and it's closed for good. Happened to drive past in October and there was a for sale sign on the building... the Mozart & some other stuff was listed on reverb. Not sure what happened with all the outboard. I started at Showplace as an intern. Got promoted to house engineer when the guy in front of me left in the middle of a session for smokes and never came back! Jason had 4 and sold a pair to Ben when he needed some fast cash for a surgery years ago. He kept his other pair and had this really cool Mercenary rack for them that could also fit some other pieces. I worked with Jason for about 12 years and he was a very dear friend up until the end. Both of them left the world way too early. I know Jason’s sister was selling some of his gear but I have no clue where most of it went to. Wish I had the money to buy his Pye compressors. Them along with a pair of Ba-6a’s and some Spectrasonics pieces were the first pieces of gear he purchased when he was making real money as a kid in the industry. His basement was full of some seriously cool stuff! |
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Post by jeremygillespie on Mar 6, 2021 9:09:47 GMT -6
I look forward to some stories! I love Andy's work. I have one specific story about Nirvana's Live at the Paramount but its involved and is gonna take some time to get there... Promise it'll be worth the wait! I knew that whole show existed for years, the masters were in the tape vault of the studio I worked at as staff engineer. What might be kinda interesting is Andy mixed a trio of records over about a year that all followed a similar architecture... Obviously Nirvana's Nevermind. Tracked at Sound City on the infamous Neve and mixed by Andy on an SSL 4000E at Quantum Sound in Jersey City. First Rage Against the Machine record was the same. Sound City > Quantum Sound The third record is a bit more off the radar... Rollins Band End of Silence was recorded by Andy at Showplace Studios in NJ (my first gig years later) in October 91 and mixed at Quantum on the 4000E literally just a few months after Nevermind. The Showplace console was an Amek Mozart fitted with RN modules, RN for Rupert Neve. We had the masters, mostly outtakes for Rollins in the vault and those were what I pulled to learn the console & automation. He certainly did some interesting stuff in tracking and really carved things up. Andy used the Showplace for a few things and eventually Quantum Sound became Big Blue Meenie, which was owned by my real life bud and interknot legend Slipperman. Anywhoo... I didn’t realize you worked at Showplace. I didn’t hear of Ben’s passing until months after unfortunately. That console was pretty cool you could keep feeding it and it would just take it and not blow up! Did he have the pair of black germanium Neve channel strips while you were there? |
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Post by jeremygillespie on Mar 5, 2021 8:49:19 GMT -6
Never had a White Russian until tonight. Wow that’s pretty good! I Stumbled upon 4 bottles of Blantons the other day at $48 a bottle. Grabbed two of them. Man that’s good stuff! I’ve not had it in quite a while. I am making a voodoo doll of you as we speak…what state are you in? I’ve heard tales of people wondering into a liquor store in like NJ or London or whatever and there sits Blantons, Weller, etc at off the shelf prices. I’m in NJ. I haven’t seen Blantons in a few years so I was shocked it was on the shelf and at a regular price. Back about 6 years ago or so Elmer T Lee was on the shelf here all the time for like $28. I’ve got one bottle left from back then that I’m afraid to drink. It’s like $300 a bottle now. It’s just crazy. |
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Post by jeremygillespie on Mar 5, 2021 6:22:43 GMT -6
Man that Quincy stuff is pretty amazing - you’ve gotta give him credit for having the balls to talk so much shit!
He’s obviously full of it, as is Bernard Purdie (one of my favorites) when he says he played on Beatles tracks.
My understanding is Paul is the only other person to play on the Beatles stuff.
Anyway, you couldn’t fart without somebody at Abby Road notating or documenting it. If somebody else played, there would be proof.
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Post by jeremygillespie on Mar 4, 2021 17:53:31 GMT -6
I once got in a heated discussion with somebody that said the Beatles would have been better with a real drummer like John Bonham...
I had a good laugh until I realized he was serious.
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Post by jeremygillespie on Mar 3, 2021 18:23:34 GMT -6
Powerstation / Avatar used to be like that. With as many rooms as they had it would be hard to not run into people the way it was set up.
Bummer that it got “Berkleeeed”
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