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The importance of play guitar well in engineering
Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2007 10:13 pm
by Steve V_Archive
sassi wrote:Steve V. wrote:I can play all of Damaged. So yeah, I'm much more qualified to press record than that asshatwearer.
Qualified to suck dick.
Damaged is a good record, fuck what cha heard.
Alas, I do not actually know how to play it.
But I did play the bassline for "Six Pack" once for six minutes straight at a show when the drummer in my old band was changing his tom head.
And yes, I supposed I am qualified to blow dudes...sassi with an "i."
The importance of play guitar well in engineering
Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2007 6:29 am
by windowlicker_Archive
To be honest, I wouldn't fully trust an engineer who didn't have a clue of any instrument. If he wasn't bothered to learn anything it's a bad sign. And if he did try and learn, but was incapable it's a worse sign.
I suppose it'd be more essential for a "producer" who was involving himself in the nuts and bolts of composition, but in my experience every decent engineer I've encountered has played something. People usually find themselves doing engineering because they started off wanting to record themselves first anyway.
The importance of play guitar well in engineering
Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2007 7:19 am
by Marsupialized_Archive
steve wrote:I play the hairy harmonica pretty good.
I'll vouch for him on this, it sings like a mockingbird in his hands
The importance of play guitar well in engineering
Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2007 4:23 pm
by bergmann disney_Archive
i think this engineer is a dumbass.
The importance of play guitar well in engineering
Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2007 5:26 pm
by honeyisfunny_Archive
steve wrote:I play the hairy harmonica pretty good.
And blow your own trumpet pretty good too...
(see what I did there?)
The importance of play guitar well in engineering
Posted: Sat Apr 07, 2007 4:35 pm
by otisroom_Archive
I like engineers who don't play guitar. I don't want to hear their bands demo or their opinion of the amp I'm playing.
I'd rather have an engineer who's a good cook or a trumpet player. Something useful. Around here you can't swing a dead cat without hitting a guitar player. Like fucking roaches they are.
The importance of play guitar well in engineering
Posted: Sat Apr 07, 2007 4:53 pm
by Eierdiebe
yeah Steve, you are a very good guitar player, and no one can take that away from you -- even the bank after they've taken just about everything else.
The importance of play guitar well in engineering
Posted: Sat Apr 07, 2007 5:21 pm
by Eierdiebe
by the way, my two cents: an engineer who's a good musician is like a film director who can act well. take that as you will i'm SO stoned right now and about to go for a walk.
The importance of play guitar well in engineering
Posted: Sat Apr 07, 2007 5:49 pm
by divit eff_Archive
sassi wrote:So I was talking with a studio owner about engineering, and he asked me:
“Do you play any harmonic instrument?”
“Well, I play guitar very badly. I’m good enough to play the Nervous Breakdown EP, or the entire Ramones’s catalog, and I am not worried to play any better.”
“But you should, and quickly. All the best engineers play guitar or keyboard very well. Professional level. If the singer sing in a different scale, you should know it. You have to be able to spot a 7th out of place and bla-bla-bla.”
So my question is: Do you guys play guitar (or keyboard, or flute, etc) really well (minor and major escales, all the theoric shit)? And this is important to your job as engineers?
yuck!
does the chap in question have a pony tail? if so i would take all his "studio talk" as useless shite. thats just me though. i think i have a problem with pony tails though so my advice would/could be racialist slurring.
i reckon he/she is talking toss though. but it's your call dude.
The importance of play guitar well in engineering
Posted: Sat Apr 07, 2007 5:58 pm
by divit eff_Archive
steve wrote:I play the hairy harmonica pretty good.
my uncle alan does that as well. he's a big lad and works on a building site- around tea time he plays ye banks and braes on the harmonica just to lighten the mood.
damn squint.
i had to spell check braes.
shocking.