Random Rants
UWAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH.
You can't believe the amount of time that is needed to just SET UP A STUDIO for recording. I'm not even talking about the recording process. I'm talking about the PRE recording process.
Now, cables drive me insane. Why? Because. Because everytime you mike up the drums (eleven microphones required), there are ELEVEN cables snaking across the floor, from the microphones to the plugs. -___- And no matter what you try to do to make it neater, IT DOESN'T WORK.
All right, drums miked up. What next? Say, three headphones. Which means three more cables snaking all over the floor. We connect them and place them on the keyboard.
Next. Vocalist's microphone. Just one more cable. Then there was the electric guitar. One more cable.
This adds up tp SIXTEEN cables in all. FINE.
Throw in ten students and one teacher and you get HAVOC. Everyone trips over everything and the headphones will slip off the keyboard everytime someone pulls a cable and you'll hear "THUMP." followed by an "OH SHIT. NOT AGAIN."
Anyway. That's for the setup. Next comes iMAC+PROTOOLS, our wonderful, anal semester one companion which hangs on us whenever we leave it alone for too long. We always end up restarting the software at least twice before finally managing to record something. We (well no, actually, it's I) always get fidgety and nervous when I have to set up the stuff on the computer (protools I/O and volume adjustments) because when there is no signal, I don't know if it's just me who did everything wrongly, or if it's just the stupid machine playing pranks on me.
But but~~~
After all that bitching, I guess it's quite fun, after all. (^0^) All the planning and stuff, and kicking the computer when it hangs (NO, I was JOKING. We don't kick the computer, we just curse it) and stuff like that... And when we finally start recording it's a hell lot of fun.
We laugh at our vocalist when he goes out of tune (and he laughs at himself). We laugh when our guitarist plastered his face against the glass and asked "is there anyone else who knows how to play the guitar here?" but ends up still having to play the guitar because no one else came to his rescue. We laugh when our drummer hits the microphone when we were recording his part. That was complete LOL cos he didn't hit it once, but about four times, by accident. And we could hear it loud and clear during playback. xD
The best part is PACKING when we're finally done. xD Oh, the joy of tearing down what we've painfully set up. FINALLY all those wretched cables are neatly coiled up once more... Hahaa.
So what did I learn during the studio sessions? Erm. Lots of things. Mainly: HANDS OFF THE TALKBACK BUTTON DURING SOUND CHECK. -___- Hahaa. Don't know what that means? It's okay, never mind. I'm too lazy to elaborate. Let's just say my ears almost bled when someone held down the talkback button while I was doing a soundcheck. Lol. Then again, I did it back to another person. Hahaha. Accidentally, of course.
That's basically what I do in school. Sounds fun, yeah? Hahaa. Why the sudden urge to talk about school? I dunno. xD It's just so fun that I feel like I have to share it. My friends in poly are all having a hellish time; I know of many who have to stay up real late to do crazy reports and proposals, and they sound so unhappy.
Am I ever so glad that I didn't get into poly~~ Of course I would miss out what they've gone through, but I don't really care about that now. (: I'm so happy with what I'm doing that I don't even want to graduate that soon. Though... I really have to work harder. Hahaha. I think I have hearing problems. xD I can't seem to hear much differences with and without the effects and stuff I added into my mixdown. o.O
I will do my best~~ So please continue to be patient with me~~ Ahaha~~
In another note... I will be changing skins again, but this time, to a custom blogskin. Nothing flashy, nothing from blogskins, but straight off blogger. I'm starting to find custom skins neater. -___- Haha. So don't expect anything JUMP-y or NEWS-ish. xD
That's all for today~ Boring post for fans hoping for updates? I'm sorry~ But I need to rant too, you know.
You can't believe the amount of time that is needed to just SET UP A STUDIO for recording. I'm not even talking about the recording process. I'm talking about the PRE recording process.
Now, cables drive me insane. Why? Because. Because everytime you mike up the drums (eleven microphones required), there are ELEVEN cables snaking across the floor, from the microphones to the plugs. -___- And no matter what you try to do to make it neater, IT DOESN'T WORK.
All right, drums miked up. What next? Say, three headphones. Which means three more cables snaking all over the floor. We connect them and place them on the keyboard.
Next. Vocalist's microphone. Just one more cable. Then there was the electric guitar. One more cable.
This adds up tp SIXTEEN cables in all. FINE.
Throw in ten students and one teacher and you get HAVOC. Everyone trips over everything and the headphones will slip off the keyboard everytime someone pulls a cable and you'll hear "THUMP." followed by an "OH SHIT. NOT AGAIN."
Anyway. That's for the setup. Next comes iMAC+PROTOOLS, our wonderful, anal semester one companion which hangs on us whenever we leave it alone for too long. We always end up restarting the software at least twice before finally managing to record something. We (well no, actually, it's I) always get fidgety and nervous when I have to set up the stuff on the computer (protools I/O and volume adjustments) because when there is no signal, I don't know if it's just me who did everything wrongly, or if it's just the stupid machine playing pranks on me.
But but~~~
After all that bitching, I guess it's quite fun, after all. (^0^) All the planning and stuff, and kicking the computer when it hangs (NO, I was JOKING. We don't kick the computer, we just curse it) and stuff like that... And when we finally start recording it's a hell lot of fun.
We laugh at our vocalist when he goes out of tune (and he laughs at himself). We laugh when our guitarist plastered his face against the glass and asked "is there anyone else who knows how to play the guitar here?" but ends up still having to play the guitar because no one else came to his rescue. We laugh when our drummer hits the microphone when we were recording his part. That was complete LOL cos he didn't hit it once, but about four times, by accident. And we could hear it loud and clear during playback. xD
The best part is PACKING when we're finally done. xD Oh, the joy of tearing down what we've painfully set up. FINALLY all those wretched cables are neatly coiled up once more... Hahaa.
So what did I learn during the studio sessions? Erm. Lots of things. Mainly: HANDS OFF THE TALKBACK BUTTON DURING SOUND CHECK. -___- Hahaa. Don't know what that means? It's okay, never mind. I'm too lazy to elaborate. Let's just say my ears almost bled when someone held down the talkback button while I was doing a soundcheck. Lol. Then again, I did it back to another person. Hahaha. Accidentally, of course.
That's basically what I do in school. Sounds fun, yeah? Hahaa. Why the sudden urge to talk about school? I dunno. xD It's just so fun that I feel like I have to share it. My friends in poly are all having a hellish time; I know of many who have to stay up real late to do crazy reports and proposals, and they sound so unhappy.
Am I ever so glad that I didn't get into poly~~ Of course I would miss out what they've gone through, but I don't really care about that now. (: I'm so happy with what I'm doing that I don't even want to graduate that soon. Though... I really have to work harder. Hahaha. I think I have hearing problems. xD I can't seem to hear much differences with and without the effects and stuff I added into my mixdown. o.O
I will do my best~~ So please continue to be patient with me~~ Ahaha~~
In another note... I will be changing skins again, but this time, to a custom blogskin. Nothing flashy, nothing from blogskins, but straight off blogger. I'm starting to find custom skins neater. -___- Haha. So don't expect anything JUMP-y or NEWS-ish. xD
That's all for today~ Boring post for fans hoping for updates? I'm sorry~ But I need to rant too, you know.
posted by Ukyo at
5/21/2008 10:46:00 PM
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