u/jakemurray

The artist name is fucked up https://tidal.com/browse/artist/16063242

I send 24 bit & CD standard versions + mp3 by default. You're gonna get asked for them anyway and it takes no extra time to create additional deliverables.

No. In theory they'd be printing 24bit masters by default then creating 16bit versions after so it shouldn't be a problem to have a higher resolution version of the product you're paying for.

Does the woofer test successfully for resistance with a multi meter?

Go Billy!

Scrolled down so far to see if anyone else was thinking Hampstead Heath. Good work everyone.

Asher, sup.

This is so much better.

Would be awesome if you could patch it to work on weekdays too.

It's pretty different from studio to studio, but diligence and enthusiasm always pay off. We expect a certain level of self-management at our place and it can be frustrating when we have runners that need to be chased to complete allocated work. Runners are there to primarily learn the ways of that particular studio, and get all the little odd jobs done than engineers and managers are just too swamped to address. A runner that takes ownership and pride in their studio is highly valuable, and one that can be trusted to get on with these things independently gets high praise. If you're on it and eager to learn, dependable with your workload and make an outstanding personal impression with your colleagues and clients, you'll get more downtime and shadowing opportunities... Which is how you eventually get to assist on sessions and ultimately become a fully fledged engineer then producer.

Best of luck. Feel free to message me with any questions or anything you're thinking or feeling that you might not feel comfortable sharing with your studio, but do also always ask them questions and speak openly with them about your feelings too! Sounds like you're an eager, hard working, disciplined person so I don't think you've got anything to worry about :)

I had to learn all of this through years of trial and error. You just saved a bunch of kids a whole lot of time. Kudos!

A lot of people prefer writing music in those softwares. Ableton in particular is much better for electronic music producers and hip-hop artists always seem to be quite fond of Logic. They all have their pros and cons. Whatever gets gets the best result right and keeps the clients happy?

I'm the Technical Manager of a studio complex. The technical side is fine... the management-side is the more laborious, keeping everything running like clockwork can be like spinning plates at times, but it's satisfying. Pro Tools is our main DAW, but we also have clients wanting to use Logic and Ableton at times too. So many tools increase my productivity, though I'd say that the multimeter and the soldering iron are the two most used these days... there's really more than I can list. I use a lot of tools.

I know you said it's brand new, but it sounds almost as if some decoupling capacitors might be gone (constant high kHz narrow-band frequency, not being filtered out). If you've tried switching everything else in your signal chain it seems more likely.

It's not going to be ground hum if it's high freq, and you can rule out the diaphragm... but electromagnetic interference, that's more likely from your description.

Just as another weird test, have you tried using it somewhere else... like, could it be picking up something that none of your other gear is getting? Would be crazy, but better to test all crazy possibilities before having to deal with Sennheiser tech dept...

Let us know if you find the fault.

Fully concur with above.

I'm one of a small % who got an Audio Production / engineering degree that actually works comfortably in music, and times have been pretty tough in the past. Get yourself the EE degree and you'll have transferable skills that will put food on your table for life... keep pursuing audio and hey maybe with the EE degree and your passion for music you'll still end up getting a job or setting up a small business marrying both worlds together! Also do some short courses in coding since I know a lot of people who've left music for the development industries... lots of money in plugin and gamesound design and still very much audio based.

Or as someone said below, just learn all the stuff you need to know to get things moving, buy all the gear you can (and try to be unique about that) and develop a clientbase.

I'm sure Keith Richards and the cockroaches will enjoy the new Tool album when it eventually comes out. We'll all be dust, but they'll like it I'm certain.

Four months is not bad at all. My second album has taken 2.5 years, it's now being released in September, which puts it at 3 yrs and 2 months since the first album was released. That record took a year to make.

Part of me is happy it's finally seeing the light of day now, but part of me has lost all the excitement and just want it out there and to move on. I'm thinking I'll go back to doing EPs for a while... they're faster.

All of this. If you have specific ideal criteria for deliverables this should be communicated and negotiated with the studio alongside what they consider reasonable... in our studio most engineers/clients will have their assistant print stems at the end of a night of mix revisions, but ultimately they're locked up onto hard-disks and also backed up in the tape store (when that is requested on our end). Anyway, my main point here /u/TheArtOfSelfDefense is that you need to think about what you're paying for, what content you actually need and discuss this with your engineer... it's not unreasonable if it's agreed upon in advance :)

In Europe/UK you can get them for ~€300 on ebay.

I've seen enough movies to know that this should be left alone.

You are very welcome.

By Murakami? Sputnik Sweetheart was the first I read of his. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is even further down the rabbithole and quite intense but of equally high standard. If you're into that sort of mind-bendiness you should also read Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut if you haven't as that's incredible.

Kafka on The Shore by Haruki Murakami. I cannot begin to explain how incredibly mind-bending that novel is, and I'm still not sure I fully understand it.

This is all really good advice.

Rated R is absolutely incredible. Era Vulgaris is one of my favourites. I always regarded Lullabies as their weakest. At this level of songwriting you're pretty much splitting hairs, though.