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For those that do, where do you work? What do you do??

i am an administrator for kent pharmaceuticals....i sit in an office talking to my friends on the internet all day

I work in warehouse of a department store. I price up stock and take deliveries all day while listening to metal.

I'm an agency admin for the NHS. Basically I'm a temp worker who goes around doing administrative type things for various NHS sites.

I'm at school full time, then on sunday i work in a push bike shop in Bedgbury Forest, hireing, selling and fixing bikes with a group of mates, while listening to some cool tunes. Is a good life

Hmmm now what do I do...I will let you all fill that in

you manage the rash

among many other things I think

professional workaholic

Now that sums me up in a nutshell

'tis a well good job to have

Its the only job you cant get bored doing

Maccy D's maytee!!!

Haha

I suck

Official

Sound engineer.

where do you engineer this sound dude?

Rifimus wrote:Sound engineer.

Do you find that alot of people think engineering/producing is really boring? I've been known to spend hours just getting a kick drum to sound perfect, I'm a perfectionist so I love that kinda thing but alot of people think it's unecessary and obsessive lol. And is it just me or do you also find it difficult to listen to music for enjoyment? I end up subconsciously listening to music from a production/technical point of view, it gets really annoying.

how can anyone find weeks and weeks of frequency analysis boring??

i'm the same.. i'll sit in front of pro tools for days on end repeatedly changing everything just experimenting...

I work in my studio and at gigs.

And no, I like to get a good sound, but if your spending hours on just your kick, then you should of made it sound better to start with! (Or used better mics/preamps/processing ect.)

We've all heard of polishing turds.

For rock bands (which is mainly what I do these days) I like to get a big open sound but with a nice click to it, so I just chuck a D112 in about half way, but at the top of the drum, so it is angled downwards, thus meaning you dont have to flip the phase afterwards (which is a pain to remember), then you just compress and EQ to taste, and sometimes I add a subtle bit of ambience. Shyclo, using that formula, you should get a perfect kick in under 10 minuites

Make shure its well tuned, with a good beater to start with though. and if you want death metal click, just get a 57 and chuck it on the other side a few inches from the beater, pointing directly at it. Whereas if you want a jazz kick, get a large diapragm and leave it about 6" to a foot outside the front head, then blend the mic to taste with the D112 - Be careful of phasing, the 3:1 rule is essential.

Happy recordings!

Maybe I should start a recording thread... humm....

and YES! I do listen to the production of music a lot.

Once your used to mixing, you just do it automatically...

Its a pain...

ilch iam well coming to see you me and the family are always at bedgebury haha

Rifimus wrote:I just chuck a D112 in about half way

D112 is the one! haha. I could have a good sound in 10-15min that is perfectly fine, but I'm overly obsessive and a complete perfectionist, I've never satisfied, so I never know when to stop lol.
I guess listening to music from that point of view keeps your ears/mind active so it's kind of a good thing. I physically cannot listen to some things though, like James Morrison's album, I think he's a great singer, song writer and the music is good, but the production is so shoddy I find it hard to listen to. I pick up on little things too, like there's a Beyoncé song, I forget which one, where her vocals clip really badly. It just makes me think, someone got paid a shit load of money to produce that track, not picking up on such a basic thing and millions of people will hear that. Have standards really slipped that much? I suppose with MP3 downloads becoming legal it's pointless an engineer slaving away for a perfect sound when it's just going to be compressed to crappy mp3 anyway.

Yep.

Its the loudness war that gets me, pile of crap.

When im mastering, I will master loud ONLY if the band asks.

Im a bum! Hahah
Nahhh I go to College really.

i just did two weeks stand-in as manager when he was on holiday..my desk is well messy