Recording a Hammond A-100 in the bathroom hallway

[Wes]

More like Born To Speedwalk, but yeah. :)

[HammondRye]

All this talk of varying tempo reminds me of the Baroque vs. Classical eras which switched around 1800 I think. Baroque was very strict on the metronome, and if any of you had the joy of learning Bach (Baroque) from nuns you might still have welts on your hands from the nuns smacking you whenever you strayed from the click. I think it was Beethoven who really broke from the metronome and gave us the Classical era which stressed expression over strict rules.

Fast forward to today, we might be unintentionally going back to Baroque rules with computer-driven music, MIDI and virtual instruments that usually lack the expression of real, physical instruments (I remember being told by a violinist that proper Baroque performances should never have vibrato. You're supposed to hit the note perfectly and stay there). But like you said, JoeyB3, musicianship shines through regardless of the rules. A good Bach performance is just as impressive as a Beethoven one even though Bach played to a click ;)

[Tim_at_Jonas]

Is it the organ rig humming, or something else?

[Sweet Pete]

Played on bed tracks for a project last fall with bass , drums , piano, guitar all wearing headphones playing together in the same room at the same time. 'Tassi Diaz'.
One CD that I overdubbed keys on near completion has a great response. 'Colebrook Road' by Mud Bay.
And a few live takes from a fundraising concert made it on to another CD. 'Kingfishers for Ridge Meadows Hospital Foundation' along with many other local blues artists.

Quite sure at least a few studio tracks had a click in the drummers cans. I still like real time playing together studio sessions the best.
And if something recorded live needs no embellishment that's fine too.

The original Chess Records Chuck Berry 'Roll over Beethoven' was beds, guitar solo , vocals. Three tracks. Two overdubs. No click.
You can bet John,Paul,George,Ringo were impressed. I still am.
Quite sure Forum member 'picothinker' has done a gig with Chuck (as I have).
Any others done a gig with Chuck on here?
That guy has serious rock-n-roll mojo.

Most of todays music is machine made and horrible. A few exceptions like maybe Keb Mo' and a few others.
NOT Kanye West.That sums up what's WRONG with music IMO.
Pushing 'play' does NOT constitute playing music any more than rap is music.
Since when has wearing a ball cap sideways and blabbering nonsense wearing a Mr. T starter kit with ink all over exposed areas worth a million dollars?
Since the computer started dummy-ing down anything artistic in about 1981-82. And the desire for it is the American way....no shame, they just can't help it.
Will machines need us in twenty years is the question. What value will money hold when machines take over the world? I give it 50 years and we're done.

When I did a 'take' with no overdubbing or punching in mistake corrections was my finest hour in the studio. Had a few last year. Hoping for the same this year.

[HammondRye]

Is it the organ rig humming, or something else?

Yea, pretty loud hum but it was only noticeable when the organ wasn't playing so he muted it in the mix. It bothered me a little, but I wasn't about to mention it and waste studio time on troubleshooting (especially since I would probably be the one forced to troubleshoot!).

[Wes]

The studio should really be the one paying for the troubleshooting time.

It's still there, it's just not obnoxious when you're playing. Hopefully ProTools-Man is proficient in the use of parametric EQ (hint: narrow Q 120Hz will probably take most of it out).

Wes

[jsaxe]

If the studio where I recorded last year is old school, then I'm good with that. We recorded live beds, with the singer isolated, then each of us played their part along with the beds. The only overdubs were for the singer double tracking and singing her backups, the bass player adding a second guitar part, the drummer adding congas, and me playing steel drums on a synth over my organ part on different tunes. We maintained our live performance energy, and the only massaging was just to fix a (very) few death notes.

The engineer pointed out that on one tune, the drummer took off near the end, but we just told him that song was our "Free Bird".

This is the only way I ever want to record, with the possible exception of a purely live show.

J