KVR Audio

V0RT3X · Post by **V0RT3X** » Wed Aug 29, 2012 6:10 pm

Im 27 and I live with burnout on a daily basis due to Insomnia.

It's getting better though since i've changed my schedules around..

CapnLockheed · Post by **CapnLockheed** » Mon Sep 10, 2012 3:33 pm

you and I go against the grain at KVR.

Oh it's not just here....

hibidy wrote:Er, ah..........hmmmmmmmmm, wha? Um, well.........er.............not following.

Must be all that smack & crack!

RunBeerRun · Post by **RunBeerRun** » Mon Sep 10, 2012 4:08 pm

Talk about going against the grain here! I love nerdy help topics so I have something to say, and otherwise try to hold back my joke replies.

hibidy · Post by **hibidy** » Mon Sep 10, 2012 6:20 pm

CapnLockheed wrote:
hibidy wrote:Er, ah..........hmmmmmmmmm, wha? Um, well.........er.............not following.
Must be all that smack & crack!

Or lack of

robogone · Post by **robogone** » Mon Sep 10, 2012 6:45 pm

CapnLockheed wrote:Must be all that smack & crack!

...and pot...

tapper mike · Post by **tapper mike** » Mon Sep 10, 2012 8:08 pm

The beatles tried to get back to basics on the let it be album but it didn't work out so well. Paul McCartney wanted to do it as live as possible
http://www.myspace.com/video/i12babeatl ... s/32409644

So there is merit for overdubbing and redoing. But I hated having to do punch ins in the studio.

I think people spend much too much time looking for sounds, tweaking them and then recording when they should simply be practicing and working out stuff before hitting the big red button. People confuse the recording aspect with the writing aspect.

vurt · Post by **vurt** » Mon Sep 10, 2012 8:25 pm

i think people spend too much time referencing the beatles, who were ok, but there where many bands who were just as good if not better.

Aloysius · Post by **Aloysius** » Mon Sep 10, 2012 8:27 pm

mandolarian wrote:Was just talking to my psychiatrist ''buddy'' the other day and he was talking to another psychiatrist ''buddy'' about me.

ftfy

Nielzie · Post by **Nielzie** » Mon Sep 10, 2012 8:48 pm

I'm not sure

RunBeerRun · Post by **RunBeerRun** » Mon Sep 10, 2012 8:53 pm

I dislike the Beatles' stereo placement, drums hard-panned to one side and stuff.

Auto admin: RunBeerRun runs KVR from a dark alley

cron · Post by **cron** » Mon Sep 10, 2012 8:53 pm

codec_spurt wrote:Burnout. Don't make me laugh.

There are many an ambulance chaser here on KVR, waiting for us to shuffle of our old mortal coil...

Burnout? Can be defined several ways. Are we talking about a whole bottle of Wild Turkey 50 gallon size, or a half empty bottle of blue 20/20...

My best burnout was my mate, who after deciding to become a smack head, then decided to become a crack-head. After delegating his mother upstairs where she usually used to watch Eastenders, he then proceeded to build a bar, made of a couple of strips of two by four, from which the new crack-heads could sup. Phoned up to see if the old dear was ok, got the grand-daughter on the phone. And to think that dear old lady toiled on the ticket-masters to buy such expensive property in Crouch End? Grand-Daughter on game btw.

So yeah. It's pretty quiet round my house. I don't have too many friends left any more. I trouble a few people at KVR. But thanks for asking. You are welcome round any time. You will find me by myelf with a big stack of vsts on my compo.

Burn out? No. Quite the opposite old chap. In for the long haul. Come around. We shall have hoots.

I invite them all. But they never come.

hibidy wrote:Er, ah..........hmmmmmmmmm, wha? Um, well.........er.............not following.

Yeah, me neither. Smack/Crackheads in Crouch End? Must be joking...

I was pretty much burned out on music the moment I switched from FastTracker 2 to a VST compatible sequencer. Going from something where I was just bashing tracks out with frenzied abandon cos that's all there is to focus on - there's only so good FT2 can sound - to a system where I could make a perfectly 'professional' sounding recording in my room f**ked up my music big time. 11 years later, the prospect still terrifies me. I ended up making all this odd experimental music in the mid 2000s where I'd instil a ridiculous limitation on myself for each track as a means of forgetting everything the sequencer can do and getting things done (only sound source can be a shortwave radio/I can not use MIDI/I can only use freeware plugins starting with the letter C/etc/ad infinitum). I still find that I need at least some kind of limitation to make a track now that I'm aiming to do stuff that's a bit more accessible. My current thing is sticking a horrible distortion on the master before I do anything else so the sound quality is wrecked right from the beginning. I really don't deal with possibilities terribly well. Still, maybe in another 11 years I'll have that down...

On the plus side, I've never suffered gear lust and have a very conservative set-up. Comes from the same place, I think. Every new piece of gear is a new possibility.

robogone · Post by **robogone** » Mon Sep 10, 2012 9:14 pm

tapper mike wrote:The beatles tried to get back to basics on the let it be album but it didn't work out so well. Paul McCartney wanted to do it as live as possible

I think Let It Be's failure had a lot more to do with rushing to get things set up, unsuitable venues for recording, the cameras being there and George Martin not being present.

My understanding is that when they asked George Martin to record Abbey Road he said he'd do it if they'd record it the same way as the early albums and essentially a lot of it was recorded as mostly live with later overdubs.

I think it was a lot more to do with attitude and circumstances than it was with playing live. My guess is that Let It Be was the wrong approach and Abbey Road was the right one as they were both recorded with essentially the same basic technique.

Nielzie · Post by **Nielzie** » Mon Sep 10, 2012 9:21 pm

cron wrote: I was pretty much burned out on music the moment I switched from FastTracker 2 to a VST compatible sequencer. Going from something where I was just bashing tracks out with frenzied abandon cos that's all there is to focus on - there's only so good FT2 can sound - to a system where I could make a perfectly 'professional' sounding recording in my room f**ked up my music big time. 11 years later, the prospect still terrifies me. I ended up making all this odd experimental music in the mid 2000s where I'd instil a ridiculous limitation on myself for each track as a means of forgetting everything the sequencer can do and getting things done (only sound source can be a shortwave radio/I can not use MIDI/I can only use freeware plugins starting with the letter C/etc/ad infinitum). I still find that I need at least some kind of limitation to make a track now that I'm aiming to do stuff that's a bit more accessible. My current thing is sticking a horrible distortion on the master before I do anything else so the sound quality is wrecked right from the beginning. I really don't deal with possibilities terribly well. Still, maybe in another 11 years I'll have that down...

I feel pretty much the same, needing to limit my possibilities to be able to fully focus on just a few things to be creative. Therefore I tend to keep just the plugins installed on my system, that I feel that should do the job for a particular project. Trying to avoid the distraction of using and even noticing those other plugins... Crazy, I know

I guess it's also about inspiration and momentum (the reason why we keep on buying new stuff).. atm I'm all inspired by using just Alchemy, CamelSpace/Phat a few AD plugins Permut8, Synplant and MicroTonic. And for mixing and mastering I'm trying to focus on using only Reapers internal tools..

In a few months or even weeks it could be a quite different setup though..

bluedad · Post by **bluedad** » Mon Sep 10, 2012 9:24 pm

vurt wrote:i don't think people spend enough time referencing the beatles, who were great.

Fixed that for you, John!

hibidy · Post by **hibidy** » Mon Sep 10, 2012 11:47 pm

RunBeerRun wrote:I dislike the Beatles' stereo placement, drums hard-panned to one side and stuff.

Auto admin: RunBeerRun runs KVR from a dark alley

It's funny because I would have said that 10 years ago.....I'm not a big fan. Go figure.