KVR Audio

ChrisE · Post by **ChrisE** » Thu Apr 07, 2005 4:47 pm

Years ago, in England, we had a studio out in the country. We built a super vocal booth off the live room - absolutely soundproof - cast concrete door - neoprene cones - the bloody lot.

There was a band in doing some stuff and I had called a coffee break. While the drummer and keyboard player were doodling around with some arrangements, I decided to go and get an extra pair of phones from the vocal booth. When I opened the door, there was the rhythym guitarist from the band, kecks round his ankles, pounding one up his girlfriend, who had artlessly draped her knickers over my U47 and who was screaming like a deranged dog.

I said, "Sorry", made a hasty retreat and laughed my socks off.

With hindsight, I wish now that I had pulled the fader on the Neumann up and routed to the monitors in the band room ...................

Sascha Franck · Post by **Sascha Franck** » Thu Apr 07, 2005 5:25 pm

ChrisE wrote: With hindsight, I wish now that I had pulled the fader on the Neumann up and routed to the monitors in the band room ...................

Bahhh - we surely wish you'd done so!

xoxos · Post by **xoxos** » Thu Apr 07, 2005 6:08 pm

you coulda just jumped on the back cos dudes are built like legos. then everyone else could have come in and formed a big chain all wiggling and jiggling at once like a big sweaty cobra and done some chinese dragon style dance around the studio for the video, aye.

el davo · Post by **el davo** » Thu Apr 07, 2005 6:12 pm

xoxos wrote:you coulda just jumped on the back cos dudes are built like legos.

ROFL

Sascha Franck · Post by **Sascha Franck** » Thu Apr 07, 2005 6:21 pm

OMG...

donkey tugger · Post by **donkey tugger** » Thu Apr 07, 2005 6:32 pm

xoxos wrote:you coulda just jumped on the back cos dudes are built like legos.

Indeed.

Electric Phase · Post by **Electric Phase** » Thu Apr 07, 2005 7:15 pm

Amberience · Post by **Amberience** » Thu Apr 07, 2005 7:42 pm

xoxos wrote:you coulda just jumped on the back cos dudes are built like legos. then everyone else could have come in and formed a big chain all wiggling and jiggling at once like a big sweaty cobra and done some chinese dragon style dance around the studio for the video, aye.

xoxos · Post by **xoxos** » Thu Apr 07, 2005 8:50 pm

Acolmiztli wrote:

i see you're experienced

cptgone · Post by **cptgone** » Thu Apr 07, 2005 8:55 pm

omg wtf rofl!!!

Voidoid Surrealist · Post by **Voidoid Surrealist** » Fri Apr 08, 2005 2:31 am

xoxos wrote:you coulda just jumped on the back cos dudes are built like legos. then everyone else could have come in and formed a big chain all wiggling and jiggling at once like a big sweaty cobra and done some chinese dragon style dance around the studio for the video, aye.

ChrisE · Post by **ChrisE** » Fri Apr 08, 2005 11:08 pm

.... and, once, we had a fairly well-known female vocalist (who I shall refrain from naming in case her label sue me) in doing a track or two at the same studio who, while we were having a listen-back at the desk, picked up a tape head de-gausser from the table and said to my tape-op, "Is this some kind of vibrator ....... ?"

I nearly fell off my f**king chair.

Sascha Franck · Post by **Sascha Franck** » Fri Apr 08, 2005 11:17 pm

Hehehehehe - if you have more of such anecdotes, just keep them coming (even if close nobody over here will even remember what de-gaussers and the likes are, even I hardly do, and I'm an old fart).

ChrisE · Post by **ChrisE** » Fri Apr 08, 2005 11:23 pm

Sascha Franck wrote:Hehehehehe - if you have more of such anecdotes, just keep them coming (even if close nobody over here will even remember what de-gaussers and the likes are, even I hardly do, and I'm an old fart).

After thirty years in this squalid old game, I have a mine of stories and they're all gospel true. Things just happen .....

Voidoid Surrealist · Post by **Voidoid Surrealist** » Sat Apr 09, 2005 2:14 am

ChrisE wrote:.... and, once, we had a fairly well-known female vocalist (who I shall refrain from naming in case her label sue me) in doing a track or two at the same studio who, while we were having a listen-back at the desk, picked up a tape head de-gausser from the table and said to my tape-op, "Is this some kind of vibrator ....... ?"

I nearly fell off my f**king chair.

Oh, god, it was one of those curvy red rubber tipped ones, wasn't it?

... a funny thing happened on my way to the vocal booth ...