Recording Magazine - The Forum!

[Dave Bryce]

As many of you know, I love recording.  Been fascinated with it ever since I was a kid.  I adore everything about the recording experience - tracking, arranging, mixing…even mastering.  Love to talk about the process, the gear, the players - all of it.  Live as well as studio, of course…

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Recording  has.a proud legacy on MPN.  Back when these forums started, the recording ones - along with Craig’s SSS forum - were by far the most active here.  Luminaries such as George Massenburg and Roger Nichols hosted forums here, both of which can still be found in our Archives section.  The Massenburg forum is still open for posting with George’’s permission, although he hasn’t posted in a while.  Gearslu….umm,, I mean GearSPACE was started by MPN alumnus brother Jules Standen, who used to run this cool studio in London called The Library...but I digress… 😏

 

I miss having a solid recording presence here.  I believe we’ve come up with an interesting way to move MPN in that direction, so we’re gonna mod the current recording forum a bit very shortly. 😁

 

Hope you guys like what we’ve got in mind. 😎

 

dB

[KuruPrionz]

Goodie!!!

I've read every post in the Massenburg forum and most of the other posts in the various closed but available forums. 

I check the Tape Op forum every so often, it's not moving real fast either. 

 

I think it would be great to kick it up a notch, I had a crack at it but I'm just a regular guy and apparently have no idea how to actually do it. 😊

I'm all in for seeing more traffic!!!! 😇

[NewImprov]

Awesome! I am as much a recording guy as a keyboard guy, I guess even more because most of my music related income is from recording rather than playing. Looking forward to how this works out. I’d love to see an active recording forum with the sense of community that I feel from KC. 

[Old No7]

+1 to this!  I'll be watching too!

 

Thanks for the heads-up and good luck!

 

Old No7

[Anderton]

On 11/15/2022 at 11:46 AM, NewImprov said:

 I’d love to see an active recording forum with the sense of community that I feel from KC. 

 

...and it wouldn't surprise me if there would be some overlap

 

Like Dave, I'm very excited by what's shaping up in the background. 

[Tusker]

I'm very excited too. I'd love to learn how to build a good mix of course, but additionally ...

 

More and more, I find that my problems as a keyboardist are music problems and they are sound problems. Most of them have been solved already from a studio perspective. Increasingly, the tools I use (eq, compression, reverb, etc.) are studio tools. I'm very excited about the learning opportunity this presents!

 

 

[Stokely]

I was going to post either here or in the main forum...I'm looking for stuff to mix that isn't my own, which tends to be pretty minimal electronic stuff.  There are multi-tracks out there (one site in particular has a ton that you can download:  https://www.cambridge-mt.com/ms/mtk/ ) but it's more fun to actually help someone out, say for a demo or something, or even to get another perspective on a mix you've already done.

I certainly don't want to undercut pros making a living, I'm strictly amateur and while I may eventually try charging (by stems or whatever, I see that a lot on fiverr) for now I'm just looking get my mitts on some multitracks (live or studio).   My friend and I in Tokyo have collaborated on some projects, we just use google or Amazon drive to share the wav files for tracks (he uses pro tools, I use Logic).

One idea would be similar to the "one synth" KVR contest--pick a song with raw tracks, everyone has a go at it, then you compare (doesn't have to be a contest) and see what everyone did and how they went about it.  

 

[KuruPrionz]

Just now, Stokely said:

I was going to post either here or in the main forum...I'm looking for stuff to mix that isn't my own, which tends to be pretty minimal electronic stuff.  There are multi-tracks out there (one site in particular has a ton that you can download:  https://www.cambridge-mt.com/ms/mtk/ ) but it's more fun to actually help someone out, say for a demo or something, or even to get another perspective on a mix you've already done.

I certainly don't want to undercut pros making a living, I'm strictly amateur and while I may eventually try charging (by stems or whatever, I see that a lot on fiverr) for now I'm just looking get my mitts on some multitracks (live or studio).   My friend and I in Tokyo have collaborated on some projects, we just use google or Amazon drive to share the wav files for tracks (he uses pro tools, I use Logic).

 

I can help, I wanted the same thing you want - to work on my mixing skills. 

Native Instruments sponsors a website - www.metapop.com. They have a continuous flow of mix contests with considerable prizes for the winners, like Komplete Ultimate - current version. I haven't won a prize (yet) but the things I learned by playing around with other peoples music are valuable to me. It's completely free to join, download and post.

Sometimes you'll get tracks, sometimes you'll get stems, sometimes somebody will have already put effects on something, there are all sorts of challenges, and it is a community, more specialized than MPN but so far it's been equally civil and well moderated in my experience. 

 

Hop on and start mixing!!!!!

One of the things I love about mixing other people's work with no commitment is that you can try anything and everything freely with zero consequences. You don't even have to submit for the contest although I think you should since others may provide useful opinions and information regarding your mix. 

Highly recommended, I've done quite a few mixes there and even posted a bit of my own work. It may or may not belong there but they've allowed it. 

 

Here's my page: https://metapop.com/opossum-apocalypse - you'll need to go down about 9 tunes to get past stuff I tossed on there and get to my remixes.

 

And here's something I posted but did not submit for mixing: https://metapop.com/opossum-apocalypse/tracks/opossum-apocalypse-long-mix/180793

 

Here's the last remix I worked on, it's been a while!: https://metapop.com/opossum-apocalypse/tracks/hana-opossum-apocalypse-remix/166618

[Tusker]

30 minutes ago, Stokely said:

One idea would be similar to the "one synth" KVR contest--pick a song with raw tracks, everyone has a go at it, then you compare (doesn't have to be a contest) and see what everyone did and how they went about it.  

 

I'd love to participate in this! 👍

[Dave Bryce]

57 minutes ago, Stokely said:

I was going to post either here or in the main forum...I'm looking for stuff to mix that isn't my own, which tends to be pretty minimal electronic stuff.  There are multi-tracks out there (one site in particular has a ton that you can download:  https://www.cambridge-mt.com/ms/mtk/ ) but it's more fun to actually help someone out, say for a demo or something, or even to get another perspective on a mix you've already done.

I certainly don't want to undercut pros making a living, I'm strictly amateur and while I may eventually try charging (by stems or whatever, I see that a lot on fiverr) for now I'm just looking get my mitts on some multitracks (live or studio).   My friend and I in Tokyo have collaborated on some projects, we just use google or Amazon drive to share the wav files for tracks (he uses pro tools, I use Logic).

One idea would be similar to the "one synth" KVR contest--pick a song with raw tracks, everyone has a go at it, then you compare (doesn't have to be a contest) and see what everyone did and how they went about it.  

 

Funny you should say this... 😁

 

We (mostly Craig) came up with a concept at Synthplex this year that will provide the opportunity for MPN members to do something almost exactly like what you describe.  We hope to break that out in December.  I think you guys are gonna love it. 

 

Stay tuned.

 

dB

[Stokely]

Sounds great!  In the meantime, I'll check out the stuff KuruPrionz posted, and I highly recommend that Cambridge repository.  I've only mixed a couple of those tunes, the ones I picked were well-recorded.  

[Dave Bryce]

Alrighty then...

 

As y'all can see from the name change on this topic, the nice folks at Recording Magazine are taking over the existing Recording forum, effective immediately. 😎

 

Recording's Editor-in-Chief Brother Paul Vnuk Jr. and his team will be doing things like starting a monthly discussion based on their podcasts and video reviews, handling gear-related and general recording questions, providing content from their online resources....and basically giving their community an online place to hang and communicate directly with the Recording mag staff and each other. 

 

There are a few other fun things they have in mind...but I'll leave those up to brother Paul to announce.

 

Please join me in welcoming the Recording Magazine team to MPN! 🥳🥂

 

dB

 

[KuruPrionz]

Goodie!

[Joe Muscara]

3 hours ago, Dave Bryce said:

Please join me in welcoming the Recording Magazine team to MPN! 🥳🥂

Awesome! Welcome to all of y'all!