Wotcha,
> I didn't know what was about to happen
You should relish such moments!
(They indicate you're alive)
> What was your frustration with Warp?
grin, now you're asking me to put my foot in it again.
I think you already know..
> I had imagined them to be a label that
> I would want to be involved in.
I got the vibe that unless my name was
'Richard James', I was just gonna be a
second class citizen. "The emperor has
no clothes!"
> So, on to something more interesting.
> What synths are you currently recording with?
oh, the same ones.
i've just been experimenting with new sounds from
old patches that i've built up, but never got round
to checking. now that i can overdub digitally, i'm
also freeforming parts in with the juno 6, and 101.
Slow and wobbly, as opposed to tight and snappy.
my mate james is helping me out with some bass
parts too.
> in-home studio or do you hire engineers?
we used to do it all at home, and then go somewhere (like abbey road,
or the townhouse) to master the vinyl. those guys are about 40, and
walk round with beer bellies and slippers, but they *do* know their
stuff.
Now with the 'death of vinyl', CD's are mastered first, and the
whole process is more clinical. I've only done it once (with M.F.A),
and wasn't very impressed. So now i've got a CD burner at home, and
i'll be able to get the final version (the one *you'll* hear) done
from here.
Software is *so* cool these days!
You can replicate a 500,000 pound mastering facilty on a pentium PC,
and it'll sound just as good, if not better (because you can take your
time).
It's GOT to be good for artists, eh?
quoted 3 lines suprised that that there wasn't more artist input into the
> suprised that that there wasn't more artist input into the
> equalisation or that there wasn't more use of pro recoeding
> studios.
oh, the cuts *are* usually attended by the artist, but there's
like this big archaic desk that only the engineer operates, so
you have to sit back and use your ears, while they try a few
things out. They're pretty good, if you say something sucks,
they won't try and slip it past you...it's your record.
and it's up to the artist, if they want to record in an expensive
studio or not. i personally hate them, but can see the necessity
if you're stabbing at the charts.
Grin, i guess thats the one thing (apart from being human)
that RDJ and myself have in common, if the muse strikes,
you need to be able to sit there in your underpants, and
get the ideas down.
Anyway, I didn't rejoin IDM to start a fight,
have a moan, or have people kneel at my feet.
Honest.
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