Introduce yourself - your setup, what you do, etc.

thesoundstudio wrote: »

Hello,

I am an experienced audio engineer / producer loooking for interesting new acts to work with. I have worked in London for the past 4 years working with some high profile clients, I have just opened a new project studio and would love to hear from acts. I have a portable rig also, so live recording and location also available.

Please do get in touch. Quotes per project, reasonable rates available

thesoundstudio@ireland.com

Best of Luck and Welcome .

Bonoestente,

..... well I've been posting here for a little bit so figured that now I may as well use up loads of bandwidth and post a lengthy intro, so here goes ......

For my sins, of which there are many, I've been composing/recording & performing ambient electronic music/sound art type stuff for around 21 years. Before that it was mostly bedroom guitar playing though I did start a punk band in '77 that performed a single gig before being thrown out of the venue after a few songs (we were technically useless - plan: buy guitar, learn 3 chords, start band, live rock n' roll lifestyle, get laid lots).

Anyway, in recent years I've spent some regular time travelling, mostly in Australia and doing field recordings that I take back into the studio and slowly fashion with synths and stuff into something I hope is worthwhile for folks to listen to. To date this has resulted in a few albums and commissioned works for specialist radio and the occasional track on a compilation CD or two.

The last 'album project' (this is starting to sound like prog rock) was based on field recordings made while travelling from Perth, Western Australia all the way to the Blue Mountains, almost the entire width of Australia. This was released in early 2008 and I performed the album either in it's entirety or in part at various venues like St. Fin Barres cathedral, Cork, The Life Festival, and the Unsound Festival in Poland last October. All pretty enjoyable. Am I making money? No. Then again, very few people working in the ambient electronic field are making money. Having spoken to several 'household names' in this genre it's the case of working towards free holidays during the summer festival season. I can live with that (remember to pack speedos into laptop bag).

At the moment I've just started work on the next part of my Australian series of albums which will be based on travels in Queensland. I guess it could be June/July before anything there starts to resemble material I can test in a live setting before fine tuning back in the studio for eventual release. Along the way there are a few minor projects to complete including managing to get a somewhat acceptable mix on a piece I composed for the Plug4 festival in San Francisco in December '08 that worked perfectly live but has been a nightmare to mix due to me using new and unfamiliar tools, but that's rock n' roll.

As a studio set-up I've forced myself to keep things simple in that almost everything has to be able to fit into a single flight case so that I can take it with me while travelling. At the moment, that consists of a Toshiba laptop running a few DAW setups, m-audio fasttrack pro interface, Keyrig 25, Trigger Finger and a pair of KAM headphones. From a recording perspective I use an Edirol R-09HR recorder with most excellent Sennheiser powered HLSO-MICRO omni microphones from Microphone Madness. And that's the set-up I've taken to Australia, Poland, Scotland, Italy and back last year and along the way had great fun recording and performing.

Back home I've got a very basic mixing setup that's not worth going into as I'm only now starting to truly address this part of the equation, but I do have mid price monitors, small mixing desk, an instrument microphone or two, a multi effects processor and a comfy chair. It allows me to pretend that I'm Nigel Godrich on a Friday night when the lights are down, the red is breathing and the green is glowing.

Its' been almost 20 years since I was last in a proper recording studio though that could change this year if all goes according to plan (and the repo man continues to believe the 'beware of savage zombie' sign outside the front gate). I'm even taking some fun time out to do a basic night time studio engineering course just to get me out of the house and help me be able to communicate better with studio professionals when the need arises (I know what I want most of the time but have lived a lifetime of wanting 'everything louder than everything else [for those of us who grew up on Deep Purple]). Any mastering I've had done in recent years has been with Colin Bennun whose name probably means nothing to anyone unless they are into Psytrance and to those folks he'll be known as being part of the legendary UK band OOOD. I don't do psytrance but feel that he allows my music to move outside the regular atmospheric ambient drone sound I love listening to but want to avoid reproducing.

Anyway, that's the story and probably the longest intro you've had to endure in some time. I suppose I should pop a link up so as to completely destroy any semblance of travelling incognito :-)
http://www.mixile.com
the myspace thing : http://www.myspace.com/mixilemusic

and email: michael (at) mixile.com should get me along the way.

If any of the music production board folks have an interest in ambient and would like a free high res mp3 copy of my last album then drop me an email and I'll forward a link. I'd rather not just post a link here.

Party on.

Mick.

Been a long time boards reader on a range of subjects and just registered this morning so here goes.....

Been making music now since my early teens and have now reached the age where life is suppose to begin at (next person who says that to me is gonna get it!). Mine is much the same story as others here, used to play bass in a band in the 80's (if only I still had the hair) which broke up, got married and have 3 kids mortgage & loans to my eyeballs e.t.c
Been recording at home now for a few years with varying degrees of success but am always looking at ways to improve hopefully with the knowledge available on this forum.
Gear consists of
Aria pro 11 bass,
Yamaha guitar,
Roland midi keyboard,
PC running Cubase SX3
Aardvark Direct Pro 24/96
Rode N3 mic
KRK Rokit 5 Monitors
Behringer pod thingy (horrible)
Addictive Drums
Kontakt 3
Halion Player
Steinberg Virtual Instruments Collection
Last, but by no means least, a nice comfy chair!

Would like to post some of my songs for critique soon
and would love to ditch my PC in favour of a MAC
but thats for another discussion
Cheers everyone
Neil

Jabel, welcome to the small but very experienced senior citizens section of the music production forum.

W E L C O M E


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Googe wrote: »

hello! I've been reading this forum for quite a while now, so I may as well introduce myself.

I have been interested in recording for a few years, started a course in Music Tech in Maynooth last September. I play guitar, bass and a small bit of piano (trying to get better). Gear wise I use logic pro and a motu traveller for recording purposes. This place has been brilliant for picking up ideas and techniques so cheers!

Chris

Welcome Chris!

Hello.
My name is Rob, I go to Ballyfermot College of Further Education and Im starting my second year of the sound engineering course there.
Its fantastic stuff!!!

My setup is:
Toshiba Laptop - Dual Core 2.4ghz - 4GB ram - 2x 250GB Hard disks (will be upgrading to 7200rpm disks soon) - 500GB Lacie D2 Quadra 7200rpm via an eSata port

Focusrite Saffire Pro40
KRK VXT6 Monitors
M-Audio Oxygen 49 Midi controller
3x Sennheiser e604
1x Shure SM57
1x Shure beta 52
1x sE Electronics SE1a stereo matched pair
3x Behringer 1300 vocal mics things. Surprisingly good! 3 for 30 quid!!
1x Behringer PMH1000 (or is it PMP :o) power mixer
2x t.Box 15" full range speakers
1x t.Box 12" Active Monitor


Wishlist:
sE 2200a
Behringer ADA8000
Headphone preamp - Wouldnt mind some reviews of cheap cheap ones.
Rack unit

Tis all I can think of lol

dav nagle wrote: »

Pleased to meet you, looks like your off to a good start there!

Thanks, yeah. I put alot of money into it. Those monitors are epic!

Hey lads,
My name is Brian.
Just discovered the Music Production forum here and just thought I'd introduce myself and throw up a link to some of my tracks.

I've been teaching myself piano and music production since around Christmas.Thought myself guitar about 9 years ago when I was in first year.I can't read music so I just learn by ear, watching or tab.I would love to do something in Sound Engineering or Music Production College in the future but for the moment its just a hobby while I save or hope to win the lotto, haha.

This is my setup at the moment:

Imac 20inch
Logic Express 8 (Hoping to get Pro down the line)
Pro Tools LE 8 (Don't use much)
M-Box 2 Mini
M-Audio Nova Mic (Never used as I don't really sing)
M-Audio Studiophile Monitors (Small but perfect for my setup)
Yamaha RH-5Ma Monitor Headphones
M-Audio Axiom 61 and 25
Ibanez Semi-Acoustic Guitar
Zoom G2.1u Effects Pedal
That's it really.

I love everything so a lot of my tracks are different styles or whatever comes to mind at the time.(Hiphop, RnB, Acoustic, Electronic, Dance.....)
I really love Hiphop and RnB so the majority would be that style as I'm hoping to do an album with a friend of mine that raps.
The track with him in the link is the 1st track we've done together.
All instruments are played by me.
Thanks for reading and if you have the time check out my tracks and let me know what you think.
Cheers,
Brian.

http://www.bebo.com/TrojanBeats

Welcome aboard Dord.

Lot's of Aria Pro's. Are they a good bass? I have one myself. I'm not a bassist so I haven't a clue:)

Hi ,
Name Declan Lonergan just set up a new studio ( Bluebird Studios )on the Dublin/Kildare broader. Based around a pro tools hd accel 3 rig and audient asp analogue console. I use a lot off analogue outboard - prefer the sound - ( thats another debate for another day !!) Full specs can be seen at www.bluebirdstudios.ie too lazy to go through all the gear. Nice thread / hope all is well with the music heads
Cheers,
Declan

Many thanks for your kind comments - having a real **** day - ye helped to make it better!!
All the best
-Declan