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8:30 - Coffee, light breakfast.
9:00 - Welcome; Volume knob basics.
10:30 - Coffee break, networking
11:00 - Turning up the volume: When you want the music to be really loud.
Noon - Lunch, Keynote Address: Was that a tympani, or an explosion?
1:30 - Turning down the volume: When you want the music to be really quiet.
3:00 - Dessert, networking
3:30 - Where is that damn buzz coming from? Incorporating the quirks of your inexpensive equipment into the soundscape.
5:00 Cocktail reception, networking
onya this is superb. However you forgot a section. After lunch - and before dessert - at around 2.15, he got a bit bored with the section on "When you want the music to be really quiet" and produced, from under the counter, a cleaning kit with wipes and brushes and polish in order to demonstrate how to clean your mixing deck. He also spent a few minutes emphasising one of his trade secrets - in the kit was a small pot of luminous orange paint which he explained whenever he got a new deck he like to find the knob that was for "When you want the music to be really loud" and paint it a distinctive colour. This, he said, was what he called the "prime big knob" and was one knob that all budding mixers must learn to find "quickly and easily". I found the Alan Meyerson Score-Mixing Seminar most helpful and i can certainly find my big knob easier.
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I'm imagining Chef Ramsay:
"Engineers: You each have a mystery box in front of you. Each box is filled with random shreds of audio tape. You will have exactly one hour to mix them into some sort of listenable music. Your creations will be played for 100 of the top audio engineers in the world. The winner will advance to the next round; and one of you will be going home.'
Cut to a scene of engineers sitting at tables. Narrator: "The engineers have had wine and appetizers, but not one mix has made it out of the studio yet."
Ramsay, after listening to the mix, "What the fuck is this?"
Mixer: "What do you mean?"
Ramsay: "It's all processed to hell. There's no dynamic range, there's no clarity."
Mixer: "Well, it passed the 'car test'."
Ramsay: "Bloody hell -- the car test?! It's fucking brickwalled you fucking doughnut!!!"
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If he can take me above the 'fixing sellotape to each end of the cassette tape' level, to improve my spoolage, it will have been French Francs well spent.
i was a dab hand at this, Kev. The sellotape, cut thin, would go on the rear of the split tape, and then after attaching the other end, i would take scissors to the edges. I was like picasso with magnetic tape! Once id finished, you couldnt see the join, nor barely pick up the crackle as it passed thru the playing heads. Perhaps Mist-er f****** Mey-er-son would like to attend my f****** seminar or repairing chewed up cassette tape (in Essex)?! i mean, who does he think he is - some kind of mixing genius or what? I'll shove his f****** knobs up his a***!!!
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Whoever bought FSM ad space sure got their money's worth, as the seminar itself ended back on October 4th, yet the ad still proudly, absentmindedly runs without fail (minus those frequent board collapses) well over a month later.
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We have to destroy MYERSTEIN!!!!!!
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i THINK WE HAVE TO CALL THIS WHAT IT IS: A COUP D'ETAT!!!!!
"Myerson no, Kendall si!"
"Liberte, egalite, Meyerson non!"
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