Stormcellar at Lazybones, Saturday May 3
Saturday night 3rd May we're playing at Lazybones in marrickville and our good mate Greg will be celebrating his Natal day. Join in the fun!
Saturday night 3rd May we're playing at Lazybones in marrickville and our good mate Greg will be celebrating his Natal day. Join in the fun!
Howdy folks.
Spent a great ANZAC day at Ironfest on Friday.
I took pics and vids but I only caught a fraction of wat was happening as I was on PA duty for the bands. Thanks to Dr Tom for last minute help on PA gear.
It's the last day today so if you're reading this, stop and go to Lithgow now.
If you can't make it, here's some of what you might see.
And in keeping with the New Way, here's all the videos fromt he day all edited and stuff. And a bit of our mates Sideshow Annie during their performance I love those gals. And guys.!
Cheers to El for help with the wires and buttons. for the life of me I cant work out why I couldnt get Metering on that desk...hmm...
Jo joined us for some songs, I got my chai and some Bilpin Apples. Good result.
Last night we followed up with a show at the Royal in Bondi, where Dr Tom got Rock Star parking.
I'm having a bit of a disagreement with my phone camera at the moment so I only got a few shots that worked (sadly) but a good nigh was had by all.
Cheers to our French visitors, Paddy, Miriam, Helen, Mark and all the folks that joined us at the RHB last night. We'll b back there in May.
Meanwhile, i have album art to crack on with!
Update - Greetings to all the Government Mule and Steve Earle fans who've been on the email to us today. Thanks for stopping by.
We'll be playing two shows this week,
Playing a spot from 4 pm at Ironfest on Saturday 25th, in the room with the chai! The Shed, Lithgow Showground, Lithgow
Jousting, cosplay, AWESOMENESS!
Then on Saturday night we're back at the Royal Hotel Bondi
Mr L. rang this morning with a few questions on files.
Simple stuff really. His breezy cheerful attitude gave nothing away.
Now it's not appropriate to say to your Mastering Engineer "hey, are you digging the album' because that puts them in the position of potentially having to lie. (yeah baby, I 'm loving it)
They're professional engineers used to dealing with precious and precocious musicians,. In other words, they lie with complete facility.
Mr Lynch has to conform recordings from 10...no...11...err..maybe twelve different studios. Here's the matrix, you can work it out.
My favourite moment was when Mr Wizard cracked and had to ask 'so how's it going'.
A slight pause.
'It might...'Mr Lynch said slowly, carefully. '....take me a little longer than I thought'
ADDITIONAL EXPLANATORY NOTE:
Just been messaged by someone saying 'wtf, does that mean he doesn't like it'. My bad. I have to be more precise.
1. We wont ask. He'll tell us if he does.
2. In your usual case of recording, there will be some consistency in the sonic qualities of a studio, across the album. More or less. Sort of.
The 'room' sounds, if you will.
The approach each engineer takes.
The choice of speakers.
Taste.
Ears.
Mr Lynch has the task of 'normalising" (consistent volume so you don't have to twiddle the knob every song) as well as enhancing frequencies (see that video below) to try and get the oomph out of each song, but the total variables are MULTIPLIED by the number of different studios.
Whoah.
We wish him well.
Mr Lynch has the files, he's adding gossamer wings and fairy dust, or whatever the heck it is that mastering engineers do.
Come to think of it, whilst I was googling recently I came across this Promo/Ad sort of video for a software plugin tool for mastering engineers that demonstrated some of the real sonic differences that mastering makes to your sound.
It's geeky, it's a little technical and a bit 'dry' and will at some point greatly praise whatever software it is he's using (i tuned out soz) but if you want to know what the Mastering process does, it's a good insight.
Whilst mixing 'Sliping through these blues' with Mr McGlynn last week, we were proudly showing off our new video for Downward Bound (see below a few articles or clik link).
He directed me to an art project he's involved with, Quantum Force; where the song recording is limited to 2 hours from inception to cut, no backtracking, no fixing, then the other guys add a video to it.
I was feeling pretty chuffed about our own efforts but now I see I have to lift my game. this is awesome.
What a beat.
Game on folks, I am gonna get some animation skills happening.