Remote Session Musicians

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Comment by pete whitfield on January 4, 2011 at 2:23pm

There's a thread over on Gearslutz offering a few 30 minute slots of a violinist session for only 53 USD.  I'm taking up one of the slots - it's an interesting experiment.  So if you have a track that could use some live violin, please give it a try (and I'm not the violinist on this occasion!)

http://www.gearslutz.com/board/rap-hip-hop-engineering-production/5...

Comment by Doug Lauber on December 9, 2010 at 4:39pm

Hmmm. Thanks- I'll be sure to check out the Stavrou.

Comment by Chris Alpiar on December 9, 2010 at 1:26pm

Yea, one of the best to be sure! That book and Mixing With Your Mind by Michael Paul Stavrou (with a nice forward by Sir George Martin) are two of the best books that we should all read as we attempt to be engineers as well as composers. Tremendous insights in both

Comment by Chris Alpiar on December 9, 2010 at 12:40pm

That Bob Katz book is like essential reading for every mastering engineer

Comment by Doug Lauber on November 16, 2010 at 10:52am

I enjoyed Mike's album- especially Alpiar's session work. Check it out! And by the way, I got a book on 'Mastering Audio', Where Bob Katz talks about the use of 'stems' in the mastering process. For example the Mixing engineer might supply three stems to the mastering engineer: drum mix, instrumental mix, and vocal mix, none of which are at the proper level, until all are combined/summed. For remote sessions, the final mix is not yet completed. You might start with just a couple basic sections, like bass and drums, or rhythm guitar, vocals, and a click track. The last instrument to perform has the advantage of hearing the entire mix and reacting to it.

Comment by Mike Torr on September 1, 2010 at 12:48pm

Just want to second Doug's comment about Dropbox - making quite a lot of use of this wonderful service now. It's really good, and there's an iPhone app too, which means I can listen to my latest mixes on headphones after going to bed - or demo them to other people :)

Comment by Doug Lauber on September 1, 2010 at 12:38pm

Fantastic- working with Alpiar and Burkhart remotely. And I just downloaded the free version of Dropbox, which allows 2 gigs of storage/sharing- should be enough for me. Thanks to James S. and Heather F. for sharing that link. It'll come in handy for future sessions...

Comment by Chris Alpiar on June 12, 2010 at 11:52pm

Thanks Phil, totally great musical experience for me working with your charts. Cant wait for the next time ;-)

Comment by phil Kelly on June 12, 2010 at 11:31pm

..and it was a marvelous job that Chris did for my client!

Since I have permission from the artist ( and he has paid the mechanical fees for his project to HFA ), I'll try and post some mp3s on my site next week so you can hear
a compressed "ghost " of Mr. Alpiars ( and my ) project.

I didn't know this this stuff could sound this good!

( I only wish I'd had the say so in the mixes, but hey -its the clients bread! )

Comment by Chris Alpiar on June 12, 2010 at 11:12pm

All those things depend on the project. In my case with Phil, I was creating orchestra realization and sending it back to him to have a jazz quartet record on top of. So in that case, not to mention there are tempo and meter changes in Phils charts and fermatae, ritardanae, etc, so I absolutely needed to make click tracks too. In this case, I also made DRY STEREO files for each instrument/section of the orchestra, so oboe, english horn, flute 1, flute 2, etc, etc for the full orchestra and left it to his mix engineer to mix it as if it was stems from a live orchestral session. If it was for some lesser music I would have just satisfied my gig by making 4 stereo tracks: woodwinds, strings, brass, percussion, maybe one more for harp or piano. But in this case (because phils music is so freaking advanced and good to the last drop I went some places I normally wouldnt time-wise. As for bit/sample rate, thats all up to the mix engineer. In this case I did 48k 24bit, but many engineers want 44.1, and once in a blue moon someone wants 96k, but rarely, since mostly 96k and 192k dont really sound that good, and the clocks dont work well that high. In the case of a pop tune tho without tempo/meter changes, yea just sending tracks prepared without click, just that all start at '0' is fine. At least in my experience so far

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