crast wrote:
lots of people wrote:
complete shitstorm
Oh, and all these bands you've done things for, got any names or samples? I'm curious to hear your producing/mixing/mastering skills ov doom.
.:crast:.
No samples because I am embarrassed by my work to be frank, until it sounds like a madonna single.
I remastered the Rush album Vapor Trails and sent out 25 copies for other people to distribute provided a POP was provided at the time. It got mixed reviews. Half loved it, half liked the original better. This was in 2004. Shortly after I announced my remaster Rush announced an official remaster. a month or two after I send out the discs and there was significant positive feedback, the official remaster was cancelled by Anthem. Take that as you will. I don't realistically think I was responsible for any of this, but I was a major player at the biggest Rush message board at the time, which the band read due to their comments in the press about it. I sourced my remaster from a guy called "musicintheabstract" that had eliminated the clipping noise from the album when we agreed that I could use his version to make the best copy of this album possible. Today, I am shocked anyone considered this to be a good master knowing what I do now about bass and pace, high end info as it relates to resolution, ect. The positive feedback only demonstrates to me, now, that my ears, even if completely missing several fallacies of good sound I know now that I could expect a half and half positive response.l
I mastered a couple local bands, one called "Ten Years From Now"
I remastered both Crimson Glory albums. I have no idea if they exist (were uploaded) outside of the CD's that the guy requesting it wanted. There were a few more like that, but I don't remember the details. I usually sent them through a few DSP's and called it a day unless there was something seriously weird about the album.
Remastered the Rush 1980 St. Louis promo/cancelled live album. Again, don't know how many people have this, but there's been a few versions floating around, some featuring my tracklisting and tracktimes for the album as I cut the tracks with the addition of Xanadu because it was not available at 2112.net because the guy who originally recorded the thing in 1980 ran out of tape before the show ended.
The recording was done for a record store owner who bought a 32 track portastudio, a 32 track mixer, tons of effects and whatever outboard gear walked through the door by customers. We used a full band and recorded everything as if we were doing a studio album, unfortunately they wanted me to set up and be ready to record in a half an hour from a full setup of everything so I was never happy enough with the sound to want to hear it again. He let me sing some songs throughout the night even though I was a really terrible singer at the time and thought it was very generous of me to offer 8 hours a week of my time for free as well as doing some things for him such as marking up vinyl I knew was out of print, ect. at the store during the 4 hours a day I was there. I was his personal sound engineer too, making sure the store's sound setup was top grade. I'm making it sound like chickenshit, but we had everything you needed to record a half million dollar budget album and I learned every circuit of what we had because I couldn't make decisions as I set up, if you get what I've been saying. I did this all before going to school for electronics. The band had no name, but we had over 30 people coming in and out of the fold because it was sort of who-showed-up as to who would play.
I don't expect people to think that is good enough, but please understand, I have worked my ass off for longer than some people have been musicians and I can't stand people questioning my abilities when I am more than willing to demonstrate them. Prove me wrong, please. You can only make me stronger if you succeed.
