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Avatar Session Tips: Using Live to 2-Track
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Collection of helpful tips for Avatar Studios' clients to have smooth and productive recording sessions. Wednesday, March 9, 2011. Using Live to 2-Track. Malcolm Addey came in to record Nanette Natal. On February 11, 2011. He used live to 2-track to analog 1/4" tape to record her and her band in Studio B. Malcolm and Nanette were kind enough to allow us to share how their session was recorded. I asked Malcolm a few questions about the live to 2-track recording method. Not specifically but the most common...
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Avatar Session Tips: June 2010
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Collection of helpful tips for Avatar Studios' clients to have smooth and productive recording sessions. Friday, June 11, 2010. Lessons from Old School Mixing. The first order of business was to take 103-tracks of music from the DAW and whittle them down to 46-tracks. This meant coming up with a mixing strategy and making many decisions on what to combine at what levels and committing to those choices. This sub-mixing process is crucial step number one. Needless to say, the final mix sounded great. W...
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Avatar Session Tips: From the Field: Word of Caution on Drives
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Collection of helpful tips for Avatar Studios' clients to have smooth and productive recording sessions. Thursday, November 10, 2011. From the Field: Word of Caution on Drives. Perhaps the floods in Thailand which has affected manufacturing of key parts might have some effect. As professionals utilizing many musicians and countless hours of work, should we trust storing valuable assets we created to a drive costing less than $200? A smattering of solid state drive specs to look at:. Glyph PortaGig 50 SSD.
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Avatar Session Tips: March 2011
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Collection of helpful tips for Avatar Studios' clients to have smooth and productive recording sessions. Tuesday, March 22, 2011. Mics used in The King's Speech. 169; 2011 Malcolm Addey. From left to right: Marconi/Reisz carbon mic,. BBC AXB ribbon, STC 4017 moving coil (dynamic). I recently had a chance to watch The King’s Speech. So the mics you see in the film were carbon mics. The only problem is that they would not have been the mics used by the King. Malcolm’s colleague’s comment:. There you have it.
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Avatar Session Tips: June 2011
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Collection of helpful tips for Avatar Studios' clients to have smooth and productive recording sessions. Wednesday, June 15, 2011. Success for Honor Society. The band, Honor Society, got a recording deal from demos that were mixed at Avatar by engineer Claudius Mittendorfer. They were previously called Airbourn. They were recording a new EP here and are now touring nationally. From Left to Right:. The following is a note we received from the band. That EP, and a ton of hard work, got us a record deal, a ...
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Avatar Session Tips: Mics used in The King's Speech
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Collection of helpful tips for Avatar Studios' clients to have smooth and productive recording sessions. Tuesday, March 22, 2011. Mics used in The King's Speech. 169; 2011 Malcolm Addey. From left to right: Marconi/Reisz carbon mic,. BBC AXB ribbon, STC 4017 moving coil (dynamic). I recently had a chance to watch The King’s Speech. So the mics you see in the film were carbon mics. The only problem is that they would not have been the mics used by the King. Malcolm’s colleague’s comment:. There you have it.
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Avatar Session Tips: 2012: Year in Review
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Collection of helpful tips for Avatar Studios' clients to have smooth and productive recording sessions. Thursday, December 20, 2012. 2012: Year in Review. Here are some of the major projects that were recorded at Avatar Studios in 2012. Recorded tracks for his new album, Unorthodox Jukebox. Including “Locked Out of Heaven” in Studios A and B with producer Mark Ronson and engineer Alan O’Connell assisted by Bob Mallory and Tyler Hartman. Recorded her album Now. Took over Studio A for four days of trackin...
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Avatar Session Tips: The Dancer Films Project
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Collection of helpful tips for Avatar Studios' clients to have smooth and productive recording sessions. Monday, February 21, 2011. The Dancer Films Project. In the early summer of 2010, jazz composer / artist / educator Jane Ira Bloom. S beloved cartoon character, the modern DANCER - with a live dancer. I was somewhat familiar with Feiffer’s cartoons and was a fan of Little Murders, a play (later turned into a film with Elliott Gould) that he wrote so I was intrigued. Q&A with Judy Dennis:. Why go throu...
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Avatar Session Tips: November 2011
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Collection of helpful tips for Avatar Studios' clients to have smooth and productive recording sessions. Thursday, November 10, 2011. From the Field: Word of Caution on Drives. Perhaps the floods in Thailand which has affected manufacturing of key parts might have some effect. As professionals utilizing many musicians and countless hours of work, should we trust storing valuable assets we created to a drive costing less than $200? A smattering of solid state drive specs to look at:. Glyph PortaGig 50 SSD.
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Avatar Session Tips: December 2012
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Collection of helpful tips for Avatar Studios' clients to have smooth and productive recording sessions. Thursday, December 20, 2012. 2012: Year in Review. Here are some of the major projects that were recorded at Avatar Studios in 2012. Recorded tracks for his new album, Unorthodox Jukebox. Including “Locked Out of Heaven” in Studios A and B with producer Mark Ronson and engineer Alan O’Connell assisted by Bob Mallory and Tyler Hartman. Recorded her album Now. Took over Studio A for four days of trackin...
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