Danny Danzi

 .... So you just may surprise yourself here Chuck. Just do what you do the best that you can brother. 
 
At any rate, I wish you the best of luck with this. I got faith in you man! :)

As do I.
They have called on you because of what they believe you can bring to the table.
Have faith in yourself, and trust your instinct.
I always told my kids you can do anything if you set your mind to it.
Don't sweat the pressure. Just stay focused, and do it.
You can do this.

bandontherun19


I've always wanted to try this HAAS effect too? I'm going to try it on my next mix.

They talk about it here;

http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/oct00/articles/stereomix.htm

And fabfilter gives an example of how to do it here; (starting at 5:10 in this video)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNzbA7RBGWI

Relevance to the topic???... The Haas effect is a cheap effect. Think of those corny spinny transitions they did on old movies where the scene would change by the current frame spinning off into the distance. That is a perfect analogy to the usefulness of the Hass effect.

trimph1


@Chuck and Danny:  This thread has become a favorite just because of what ideas you guys have put together here.

BTW...Danny...your video looks good with you picking away so fast. lol! Is that the only video you actually have up or am I missing something here?

Aww man you're too kind, thanks trimph. Glad you enjoyed the thread. I'm anxious to see how Chuck does with this. He's more than capable of kicking butt on this...it all depends on what he gets faced with when the recording takes place. I want to see how much he's learned from us working together on his project. I have the feeling he won't need my sorry @ss like he once did as he has a pretty good grasp on this stuff now. :)
 
As for the video's, (Chuck forgive me for corrupting the thread) contrary to what people may think, I actually don't exploit much of that stuff for two reasons really.
 
1. I'm quite shy. I hate cameras and live video and have a bunch of hidden vids on my you tube channel that haven't been shared. I just do little tests of things, post them to you tube and get sick to my stomach when I see and hear myself so into the "private archives" they go. LOL! There's only one vid on my channel which is probably the one you're talking about.
 
2. I have a horrible problem with severe suckage live. I can sit here in my studio or in my little man cave and play all sorts of stuff while having a conversation with you at the same time. Record me doing it and something disgusting happens. I just seem to get so nervous, I blank out. It's something I've been dealing with since 1996. I got in a dirt bike accident that left me unconscious for 30 minutes...and I have a little memory loss from it as well as severe vertigo for the rest of my life due to a permanently damaged inner ear. I hear fine, I just have the balance of a new born pony some days.
 
I can be so well rehearsed in my playing that I don't have to think about what I'm playing and will play it perfectly every time. Put me on a stage and I just seem to lose my way and either improvise or...make a fool of myself. There's not a single live vid I've done where I've felt happy. Actually wait..there is one but it was a test video and it didn't look too good. LOL!
 
But if you ARE curious to see a few of my blunders, my nic on you tube is MAJICHANDS. There are several live video's from something that will show up as "Guitar War Meetup". We used to have a meetup for a website called guitar war every year in Georgia. So most of the videos you'll see come from my visits there from like 2004 to 2008 I believe. Quite a few great players that you'll enjoy better than me because they know how to play and don't choke live.
 
I'm also in a Van Halen tribute band called Skeleton Crew. Quite a few horrible videos of me sucking it up floating around the net as well as on our Facebook page at www.facebook.com/skeletoncrewnj and a few on you tube. Just try not to think too low of me after you see some of these....they are quite bad I'm afraid. And I don't drink or do any drugs...I'm just the King of Choke live. :( Thanks again.
 
-Danny

Danny - there was a video on youtube a while back with you trading solo's with a couple other guitarists.  Some phenominal guitar performances!  I can't find that video anymore though??

Well the 1st session was last night and went pretty well.    I set up a couple 57's on the guitar cabs, recorded the midi from the drums, sent the audio from v drums to my PA for monitoring, had a couple 58's up to catch scratch vocals going into the PA and then from an Aux on the PA board to a channel to record them.
They nailed down a great performance (drum wise) of the song on the 3rd take.  We wen't back and started tracking the other instruments after that.  In 3 hours we got the Keeper drum take, 1 clean guitar down (2 layers), and 2 distorted guitars (with 2 layers each) and a scratch vocal.  I was pretty happy with that.
The next session we'll get the bass and vocals down and I think we should be good.

   Then I sat around after they left and spent about an hour and 45 min slip editing to clean up the guitar tracks, playing sround with a rough panning scheme, tweaking some drum eq's, and setting up the additional buses I think I'll need/want for additional processing.  Then I got a good roughed in mix going of all that we have down so far.  Cool tune, cool band.  That was fun.  More updates to come!

And then X1 crashed and the "Auto-save" copy refused to load... 




Sorry,  couldn't help myself..

Were the band happy with what they've heard so far?

Yeah, thank god that didn't happen!  I am still running producer 8.5.3 and I am constantly reminding myself to HIT SAVE!!!  Just in case.  
   Yes, the band seemed very happy actually, we were relaxed joking around and had a good time.  They were already making comments like "well when we come back next time to do a full lenth...."  So that was cool to hear.   Yeah one of them called me after they left the session to say how excited they were and that he thought it sounded great.  Which suprised me frankly because they have been working in a much bigger/better studio and I hadn't touched a single EQ yet or installed a single plug on the project so...?  I guess I'll take that as a compliment on my mic placements?  haha

Though it seems a bit redundant to post here....  I just posted a rough mix of the song I am doing for the band (that this thread is about) in the songs forum if you are interested in following this journey through it's completion:

http://forum.cakewalk.com/tm.aspx?high=&m=2568308&mpage=1#2568308

My thinking ia why try to make it sound the same, you want it to be the stand out track on the ALBUM. Shoot at mediocrity you will get mediocrity. I don't care if it is produced by Abbey Road. Your sound is UNIQUE! (that's why they came to you in the first place...(thinking now)

So do what you know how to do, would be my advice!

My take on tracking and mixing is to simply focus on correcting ( or not tracking in the first place) the butt ugly stuff. From then on it's about the music and arraignment and if those two things are good, then it's all good. In my opinion there are no absolutes - just things that draw your attention away from the arraignment.