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| It seems like I always start off my entries with phrases like "what a crazy month it's been", but I swear, it's really been that way recently. Today is, in theory, my first day of actual rest and relaxation post-holidays. And I'm still working tonight. Go figure! What I'm doing tonight is final editing, bouncing down tracks, and doing rough mixes for Seanan McGuire and Kristoph Klover. I had a house full of musicians last weekend as we did tracking for four songs: Practically everyone doing instruments and voices for Evil Laugh, Alisa doing piano for In This Sea, and Callie doing flute for In This Sea and Still Catch the Tide. To top it all off, Vixy helped Seanan and I work out chords for, and Seanan and I made a scratch recording of, her song Continental Divide that she's going to be recording with Steve Macdonald coming up soon. It was a fantastic weekend of great fun, and very hard work. We crammed all of that work into essentially a single day. Fortunately, everyone who was here was incredibly helpful and patient. My only regret about the weekend is that our favorite photographer, Greg Barnett, came over to do some shots for Vixy's album, and we were running so far behind in actual recording work that we had to turn him away. I'm terribly disappointed about this and I hope Greg accepts my deepest apologies. I really want his photos to grace Vixy's album when it's finished. And this all comes right on the heels of Rozalind having just finished a couple weeks of tracking and editing here for her upcoming album Edgework. That is going to end up being a full album, about a dozen songs total. I'm very excited to hear the final version of this album when it's finished. Fortunately, in both these cases, I don't have to do the final mixing and mastering, that's all an SEP now, freeing up my time to resume work on Vixy's upcoming album. Which is coming along nicely. Not a lot of specifics to report about that project, just know that it's going well and will be absolutely fantastic when it's done. All this enjoyable work in the recording studio has got me thinking about the idea of doing it professionally. I've got a cozy little basement that's great for tracking acoustic or electric instruments. There are some drawbacks: I've got close neighbors, so I can't bring in someone with a drum kit, although I can definitely bring my gear over to someone's practice room to record drums. And I have neighboring kids and dogs that will ruin the occasional take, but that doesn't happen hugely often. (Although Rozalind might disagree with that statement!) I've got a bit of expertise, even a class in audio engineering under my belt. What do you all think? Would that be worth charging for? Would anyone pay for that kind of environment when there are real studios available? Let's see, what's coming up? Well, we've got Consonance in Milpitas, the first weekend in March. That's going to be awesome, as my friends The Bohnhoffs are the guests of honor, and the bill is slated to highlight Alex and Kris, too. I hear that Vixy and I will be doing a concert set as well, hopefully being billed under the new name we've settled on: Vixy and Tony. (No Captain & Tennille or Sonny & Cher jokes please. We just figured everyone knows us as this by now, so why not just go with that?) Speaking of performances, coming up we've got another Wayward Coffee House gig. My calendar is telling me this will be the evening of Saturday, February 10th. The last gig was really wonderful, with a packed house and lots of great energy. Come make it another great night! |
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I'm looking forward to hearing Vixy's CD and Consonance should be great!
Can you charge to record?
-- heck yes, I'd have paid you.
My CD was recorded in a home studio in which you had to stop when the nextdoor neighbour started to blowdry his grass or mow. It worked out. (Once we figured out what the problem was with the vocals the rest just fell into place) I don't think he has taken any courses but he's been recording live concerts and off-the-floor folk recordings for years. Done some really high quality CD's too.
I see no reason why you couldn't do it too!