Let there be Light!
Sun/29/Mar 03:15 PM Filed in: Work
Its a new dawn, its a new day...
The day started well with two large, fresh poached eggs on toasted freshly baked bread. As my knife glides through the yolks and breaks them on the scorched bed of burt bread, my thoughts turn to the day and week in front of me. The bare-bones of a content-based website can now, at least, be seen by everyone. I can now start adding more content and possible advertising banners to the site in order to start generating revenue from the site. Maybe another day...
I have a few phone calls to make today. One to a lovely and talented voice over/actress who’s recently been penning a 30 minute radio play. I’m hoping she’ll consider the studios again for recording her next production. The last one turned out well and was well received by the prospects she played it to. The BBC and other independent producers are interested in her work. I think she will turn out to be a good contact in the future.
Another call I have to make is to a good sound engineer/producer, Chris ‘Pita’ Harrison. Chris has been a very busy record producer and engineer working with an array of Britain’s finest and youngest musical talent. I need to pick his brains about the new layout of the studios being designed and built in our basement. He’s had a few more years in a pro recording studio; he might have some good ideas as to what might work in the space we have.
Anyway, time between my regular posting at Teddington TV studios and Chilli Inc. Studios is usually filled with recording outside-based effects and building a complex library of sounds to be incorporated in all aspects of our work here at Chilli Inc. Studios. We use a Zoom H4 stereo recorder for general background sound effects. It’s small and simple enough to use and fits really well in the back of a backpack, important when you need to bike around the Southeast in an attempt to get that right sound of peacocks, or motorways. It uses large enough memory cards that just about put them in sync with the battery life. I’ve also used it with great effect with a Rode NT2000. This does seriously drain and reduce the battery life but when used with the supplied power source it makes great recordings. Fantastic quality, particularly at its highest quality setting.
So, my mum wants me to do her a CD of my brother-in-law John and me doing some cover versions of some songs she loves. I think It should wait until I have all the alterations done to the live and control rooms, but hey, we can plough on through with what we’ve got. If I cant do it for myself, what chance have my clients got?
I have a few phone calls to make today. One to a lovely and talented voice over/actress who’s recently been penning a 30 minute radio play. I’m hoping she’ll consider the studios again for recording her next production. The last one turned out well and was well received by the prospects she played it to. The BBC and other independent producers are interested in her work. I think she will turn out to be a good contact in the future.
Another call I have to make is to a good sound engineer/producer, Chris ‘Pita’ Harrison. Chris has been a very busy record producer and engineer working with an array of Britain’s finest and youngest musical talent. I need to pick his brains about the new layout of the studios being designed and built in our basement. He’s had a few more years in a pro recording studio; he might have some good ideas as to what might work in the space we have.
Anyway, time between my regular posting at Teddington TV studios and Chilli Inc. Studios is usually filled with recording outside-based effects and building a complex library of sounds to be incorporated in all aspects of our work here at Chilli Inc. Studios. We use a Zoom H4 stereo recorder for general background sound effects. It’s small and simple enough to use and fits really well in the back of a backpack, important when you need to bike around the Southeast in an attempt to get that right sound of peacocks, or motorways. It uses large enough memory cards that just about put them in sync with the battery life. I’ve also used it with great effect with a Rode NT2000. This does seriously drain and reduce the battery life but when used with the supplied power source it makes great recordings. Fantastic quality, particularly at its highest quality setting.
So, my mum wants me to do her a CD of my brother-in-law John and me doing some cover versions of some songs she loves. I think It should wait until I have all the alterations done to the live and control rooms, but hey, we can plough on through with what we’ve got. If I cant do it for myself, what chance have my clients got?