I just finished a small audio job for a mime artist. Yes, they’re still around.
I had a bit of a hard time ascertaining what work he wanted done though, since he was “miming” his instructions to me, har har.
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Big recording project booked
I haven’t been working in the big studio for a few months. They were all into having me work there and I did a bunch of sessions. Then one day they stopped calling to have me do gigs. The owner and main engineer wasn’t returning my calls or emails. I thought perhaps I’d done something wrong but nothing came to mind. It just happened that the economic downturn forced the owner to work the gigs himself to save money, rather than paying freelance engineers.
I do have a project coming up at the big studio though which I’m looking forward to. It’s a technical rock band I’ve done two albums for. They’re insanely good, fast, technical, anal etc. They’re a similar band to say Dream Theater and Rush.
This upcoming project is going to be a DOUBLE album. There will be at least 43 billion notes on this project, which should provide some good Pro Sound Blogging opportunities.
My rock & roll band is going into the studio today to do some music. It seems the developers of a Nintendo Wii game similar to Guitar Hero are fans. Should be fun to hear yourself play on a video game.
The one “issue” is that the studio we’re recording in, is run by a guy who I’ve known for a long time and is a total bonehead. This guy walks around town speaking with a British accent, even though he’s probably never even been to the U.K… bonehead.
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The bartender returns
The bar tending/recording gig at the old guy’s house went pretty well. He had a steinway piano but insisted on keeping the lid shut. So I didn’t get the sound I really could have but he was happy. I guess older folks like this guy are “cold” because his place was about 134 degrees and the heat was still going. I was frying.
Just heard from the guy and he wants to do some of the 26 tunes over so…it’s back to the furnace Monday…
I’ve got some clients who, I swear, the only reason they record is so they have someone to talk to. It’s like being their bartender. Most of these types are fairly old. Today I’m working with one of them.
Dean
Dean is a very religious guy, and a piano player. He’s pretty good, especially for being over 80 years old. I’ve done several albums for Dean, and 3/4 of the time is spent “talking” and not recording or working on the project. I work with him in 4 hours, but my phone just rang. He’s calling to give me directions to his place, for the 4th time. Each time he goes on for what seems to be about an hour, just giving me directions.
Yesterday he called to give me a better set of directions than the two previous times but I had to tell him I was on the other line and driving down the road so I couldn’t write the new set of directions down. I won’t use any of his directions anyway. I’ll just google map it. He doesn’t need to know that though.
I have a new voice mail.
UPDATE: 40 minutes after I posted…. the phone is ringing again.