A trip to a studio!

[Rosie C]

A friend is working on an album and wanted an accordion on one of the tracks. So I ended up at a local recording studio on Tuesday, lugging my Guerrini along.
I went with MMM full Parisian café mode, and ended up playing the introduction to the song, and a few accents at the turnaround at the end of each chorus. I added mandolin too, though I'm not sure how much of that will be used.

It was my first time in a professional studio environment. The photo's not great, but it's a memento!

 

[jozz]

a nice experience!

 

[Tom]

That’s great, congrats Rosie! Please let us know when the YouTube video come out!

 

[Rosie C]

That’s great, congrats Rosie! Please let us know when the YouTube video come out!

I will do. I think it's going to be a couple of weeks in mixing, but there will be a YouTube video I think

 

[JerryPH]

Fun, isn't it?
It is also nice to now know that the bridge between full pro studio and a well designed home studio is no longer the Grand Canyon, but a little river nowadays!

I hope you get a copy of the recording to share here... maybe?

Congrats!!

 

[Mike t.]

How long did you get to practice the parts you were to play? Just wondering how many microphones are in the booth you played in? This would have to mark you as a professional recording artist! Cool! Now for a cool stage name…. Hmmm… let us think on this one!

 

[Rosie C]

Fun, isn't it?
It is also nice to now know that the bridge between full pro studio and a well designed home studio is no longer the Grand Canyon, but a little river nowadays!

I hope you get a copy of the recording to share here... maybe?

Congrats!!

Yes, I'll share here

You're right there isn't a whole lot between home recording and a studio. They were using "Pro Tools", while I use "Logic Pro" - so much the same. I guess the biggest differences are (1) having the sound-treated recording room (2) having someone else monitor and adjust the levels so I can focus on playing.

 

[Rosie C]

How long did you get to practice the parts you were to play? Just wondering how many microphones are in the booth you played in? This would have to mark you as a professional recording artist! Cool! Now for a cool stage name…. Hmmm… let us think on this one!

I was given a recording a couple of weeks ago of the lead vocal and guitar, but little direction. I transcribed it and learned the tune and chords beforehand (key of D♭ so thank you Salvation Army for all those D♭ Christmas carol brass arrangements last year!). But there wasn't a definite plan of what to play when I arrived. We worked through some ideas, trying things - with me in the studio, the songwriter and engineer in the control room.

Microphone-wise my internally-mic'd Hohner is still waiting repair so I took my Guerrini which has no mics. There is bass guitar on the recording (also me!) so I only played the treble keys and we used a condenser mic on a stand about 2' from the treble grille.

 

[JerryPH]

You're right there isn't a whole lot between home recording and a studio. They were using "Pro Tools", while I use "Logic Pro" - so much the same. I guess the biggest differences are (1) having the sound-treated recording room (2) having someone else monitor and adjust the levels so I can focus on playing.

There are a lot of people leaving the ProTools train... very expensive (thousands for the full version), and no real advantage other than some pro studios use it. It crashes often, takes 5-15 minutes to load a project while a $60 copy of Reaper loads the same project in seconds and near never crashes.

Treating a room is o biggie today, but takes some time, effort and money and setting levels, once you know how is a walk in the park if you learn how to gain stage and how to post process (ok, it's likely easy for me after playing for years... lol... but it is not rocket science!). I could make a video about it that is an hour or 2 long and cover it about all.

 

[Rosie C]

Here we go... I'm also playing bass guitar and mandolins

 

[Tom]

Here we go... I'm also playing bass guitar and mandolins

Cool!!!! You got the intro and outro, and that second fill was unexpected…. Going to minor? Anyway, congrats!!!!!!

 

[Rosie C]

Cool!!!! You got the intro and outro, and that second fill was unexpected…. Going to minor? Anyway, congrats!!!!!!

Ah, that was a bit of improvising with the sound engineer. The chord is D♭7, so I played the ♭7.

 

[losthobos]

Nice Rosie ...that's "a little bit of magic" you can be pleased to put your name too ....authentic...

 

[JerryPH]

And there it is, you are officially a produced pro studio musician. You did well !

 

[Rosie C]

And there it is, you are officially a produced pro studio musician. You did well !

Thanks Jerry!