Oozing Musical Genius @ Pus Cavern Studios
Hello my friends! Well, it's been a few weeks since my last blog post, but after returning from the last mega-tour, well, there just wasn't a great deal of stuff to report (save for a lot of catch-up email, etc. on my part).
However, this week I was in California (specifically San Jose & Sacramento) for some very cool, Adobe-related business. In this case, it's the 'business' of recording and filming Johnny Encore & the Acrobats.
So, who *are* Johnny Encore & the Acrobats, you ask? Well, you're going to have to wait a little while to find out that. But, I'll be periodically posting blogs about Johnny and the gang, and keep you up-to-date- on the progress of the 'sessions' that we're doing.
And that brings us to yesterday. Camped out at Pus Cavern Studios in Sacramento, we set about to record a series of songs, and do some interviews and additional video footage. The session went incredibly well, and we tracked 5 songs and did an enormous amount of 'B-roll' (some of which you'll see later on). House Engineer Joe over @ Pus was super-cool; so an extra shout out to him for his fine hospitality, great-sounding console, and supa-fine analog preamps! (oh yeah, it SO makes a difference).
Naturally, we wanted all of this captured in Adobe software, so we fed all of the inputs from the console and external preamps into my MOTU Traveler box, and all of the tracks we captured live (and overdubbed) in Audition 3. Yep..the first, on-the-road, live multitrack session in Aud 3 --- and the software performed like a champ. In fact, all monitoring (for all parties) was also conducted thru Audition (with the studio console basically acting as 'our' listening monitor...but the actual monitoring was done thru Aud and the MOTU). Once again, things went brilliantly, and we couldn't be more pleased.
Capturing Live in Audition 3 - with Johnny & Joe @ the desk
And now that I've said that, I'll have to continue later on as I've got some editing, mixing, de-noising, and other things to do! I'll keep you posted on the Johnny Encore sessions, and all the usual 'evangelical' things that are going on. ;)
Until next time,
Blog on.
Comments
Hey Jason -
happy belated B-day - my B-day is this wed - July 1...since I last wrote you I have landed a licensing deal for my tunes - no immediate money but a step in the 'write' direction...my wife was asking about my b-day (what a guy wants) - t-byte storage, flat panel, audition 3 - i have 1.5 - and am getting pretty handy these days with it...got me thinking of if somewhere in this great wide world you / adobe would consider me a worthy partner...I currently use Reason 4, Acid 3,Recycle,Uno, Vegas, Audition 1.5,as well as Fireworks, Flash, Photoshop, After Effects. I wonder if going to 3 is a good idea though (honestly) I have read there is a much more intense cpu use...and my current set up is relatively hiccup free...I have historically had endorsements in drumming - would love to have one from you guys - even if it just means a huge discount on the update (95.00 is huge to a guy like me trying to make it in music)...I am planning on a daily / weekly groove, and a weekly song (written, performed, produced and published on my site) as personal challenges for discipline promo etc...if the answer is no I won't be offended - but I know you give guys software that would do a lot less with it than I would.
:-)
Cheers
David
Posted by: drhill | June 29, 2009 11:13 AM
Hi David. Well, this isn't really my area (giveaways/endorsements), but I can certainly pass along the request :) I would very much like to take a look/listen at the stuff you're doing (especially the song-a-day/groove-a-day stuff) so I'm going to hop over to your site right now! Take care. ---JL
Posted by: Jason Levine
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July 20, 2009 11:30 AM