Leave the Mic, Take the Canoli
After a beautiful tour through downtown, I made it to 7th Kind's space at around 4pm. Drummer Tyson was there working with Bill's sister on her clothing design buisiness. She maintains the space in the front of the building as one of her studios.
I had become intensly hungry on the trip over, so I decided to head over to Fiore's Italian Deli around the corner and get a Italian Beef sandwich (again). They're amazing. I also had to grab a chocolate canoli, since I've been craving one of those bastards for more that a month. The whole experience was blissful. I sat outside in the warm pre-summer sun and munched. I also bought some fresh basil, my secret weapon when it comes to recording bass, which was what I was doing for this session. No I don't smoke it.
Before John Sefner, 7th Kind's bassist, arrived I was planning on resolving some old issues I'd been having, and making headphone mixes for the session. Since I've been having endless troubles with the timestamps on many of the takes that I've been transfering to my Pro Tools system, I decided to arrive a bit early and solve the problem. To reiterate what I explained before, any take that does not begin at 00:00:00:00 is importing at the wrong point on the timeline in my system. I figured the best way to take care of the issue was to make guide tracks that would start at 00:00:00:00 (using "bounce to disk") for all of the overdubs. Then I could import each guide track, and visually match up the actual overdubbed take next to it with perfect accuracy. Then I'd just delete the guide track once everything was lined up. There were only about 6 guide tracks that I needed to make, so it didn't take too long. I later tested my theory at home and discovered that it worked perfectly. I realize there ought to be a more sophisticated method for sharing files between Digital Performer and Pro Tools, but the few methods suggested by the manuals didn't work, so i'll be investigating other avenues further as we continue on with the 7th kind album.
I had become intensly hungry on the trip over, so I decided to head over to Fiore's Italian Deli around the corner and get a Italian Beef sandwich (again). They're amazing. I also had to grab a chocolate canoli, since I've been craving one of those bastards for more that a month. The whole experience was blissful. I sat outside in the warm pre-summer sun and munched. I also bought some fresh basil, my secret weapon when it comes to recording bass, which was what I was doing for this session. No I don't smoke it.
Before John Sefner, 7th Kind's bassist, arrived I was planning on resolving some old issues I'd been having, and making headphone mixes for the session. Since I've been having endless troubles with the timestamps on many of the takes that I've been transfering to my Pro Tools system, I decided to arrive a bit early and solve the problem. To reiterate what I explained before, any take that does not begin at 00:00:00:00 is importing at the wrong point on the timeline in my system. I figured the best way to take care of the issue was to make guide tracks that would start at 00:00:00:00 (using "bounce to disk") for all of the overdubs. Then I could import each guide track, and visually match up the actual overdubbed take next to it with perfect accuracy. Then I'd just delete the guide track once everything was lined up. There were only about 6 guide tracks that I needed to make, so it didn't take too long. I later tested my theory at home and discovered that it worked perfectly. I realize there ought to be a more sophisticated method for sharing files between Digital Performer and Pro Tools, but the few methods suggested by the manuals didn't work, so i'll be investigating other avenues further as we continue on with the 7th kind album.
posted by MWM at 10:58 AM
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