Video Footage: London @ PWR

A cool vid I found with London working on a joint called "She's Gone" with the homie Ryan Toby and produced by the legendary Rodney J. As you all know I love seeing how other engineers work, and Tito is one of the best. I love his mixes and even though the quality of the audio from a youtube video is suspect,it sounds quite good. I see another dope engineer Mike Mill aka Snotty in the background chilling, if your ever at Patchwerk ask for him, he's dope. Rodney also drops some gems on working with MJ and capturing a classic performance.

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Silent Camp Out

So we have shifted over to silent sound for the next few days.....more of the same project....but here's what it's looking like right now...

Here's Kory looking suspect (obviously busted looking at porn)...



My API's are in FULL effect too on the keyboard too, and the Neve 1073 on the MPC....sounding tasty...



....well...that's it for now, but i'm sure I'll have more thru the week....maybe even some decent quality ones if J comes by!!

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PWR 9K

Working along in 9000 at Patchwerk again....



...had a good 2 days over there with Snotty and Bangladesh....dude has a simple set up, but really knows how to make the most from his MPC...





...you know I had to bring some of my toys too....both gear and literal toys...





...everything was sounding good and working away.....nice few days.....and before anybody gets any bright ideas to hate on the pics....read the post below! I'm working on it alright!!!

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SSS Upgrades...

When you're patchwerk, you're patchwerk for life, but honestly, my favorite room to work at in Atlanta is Silent Sound Studios. It just has my prefered console and Mains speaker array. In addition to that, terrific outboard, a great staff, and good overall vibe. They always had a large ProTools rig, with a great selection of stuff, but until recently it was Power PC....TK (the owner), just MAJORLY uplifted his prada.....the only Intel HD 6 rig I know off. All PCIe, all accell. Screaming fast is an understatement....

And with dual displays.....



More Killface to keep everyone happy.....



Some of the Rack Array...



Along with some of mine...



....J has a great post about mobile rigs....I'm going to work up a post for that soon....Hope you guys enjoy...

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Day 3 At Triangle Sound

Our last days pics from another night working with Justin and AJ. Had a great time working with him, and cant wait to see whats next for him. I got the habg of this whole slide show thingee now, ya boys making progress now lol.

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Getting to Work.

Had another productive night at redzone with the guys working on Justin Beiber, 14 year old R&B prodigy who just signed on With La Reid and Ush. Hes really amazing, probably the most talented person Ive ever worked with. Hes 14 but carries himself like a star. The record we did tonight is crazy, we had a good time recording and just chilling.

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Doppleezy

Shifted gears and slid over to Doppler today. Worked with another one of my clients today on his artist, Sweet Rush



....well this is half of Sweet Rush. Iman and her dog Chuck. Siham was there too, but she was too cool for school to be on Gridlock, maybe next time. Doppler is probably one of the only studio that hasn't bumped up the main rig to an intel based mac, so I wasn't able to rock off my boot drive (which is only intel compatible...I may set up a PPC one, but this is LITERALLY the only studio in town without intel, so it kind of pointless)....so unfortuanatley, no killface appearance today. Boo....just me....



Double Boo. As usual, I brought my gear for my mic chain...because I love the way it sounds paired with my mic, and in addition to that, it's nice to be comfortable using your piece, knowing exactly what settings work with whatever vocal performance, and just being familiar in general....also to have the gloomy bears on the defense tip, in case someone trys to fuck with your settings. Boosh!




We got it going good today, and finished up a joint.....hope they like it....and more to come.....

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STILL still on it at PWR

Yessir...the work up here continues...as it's been going well writing and getting some ideas together. I'm still slipping on getting my camera game up to par, so please forgive me for now....



This was our set up when writing with Eric Hudson. Dude is crazy talented, and is fun to record, because he doesn't sequence anything, he plays it all live...the closest thing you're going to get to rocking with a live band these days! He doesn't use any software synths (which I tried to help him get up on, cuz he travels a lot and his rental bill is SUBSTANTIAL), but uses the Fantom for a lot of horns, and the motif for a lot of stings and stuff. It was a good hang, and got some cool ideas put down.



I'm not going off on a rant here, but to all the folks out there recording...PLEASE keep those sessions well organized and labeled. There is nothing worse than working on a session somebody else recorded and see the tracks labels audio 1-97. Come on man....we are professionals here, this is our science. Scientist label shit. End of story.

Stopped by the office the other day for a nice biz transaction with Ben Allen...results to be posted shortly during my gear extravaganza post...and saw Monica and Brad and the Milk Money mascots Juno and Coltrane!



Well....that's what's been up for a few days....I'm working up that nice gear post....but will probably hit up some ridiculous topic like favorite studio foods first to balance out my nerdom. Hollertreezaleeezy 9000.

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Still on it at PWR

Gotta say shout out to Leslie for letting me get a few days in 9K....Always happy to work over there (and I dropped the Master Trim on the 2 Bus so my client can't beat up on the mains quite so much!). We've just been steady in here writing songs for various heads the past few days....it's been going really well. I'm actually very happy with how well my boot drive has been performing. Handy to have my version of ProTools up and roaring just like the home rig.

Snotty was also getting it in over in 995 working on some hot beats for the streets....making a hot hook too, shit should be my ringtone....here's me trying to jump in the chair so I can get some credit when it becomes a #1 smash world wide...



Working lots of places is one of my favorite things about being an engineer. I don't wanna get to lame sounding with it, but I think different studios have different vibes and different energy and can make creativity come in different forms. For a writer it could be new melodies, for a producer a new keyboard sound, and for engineers maybe different tracking or mix ideas. With all of that said, I like to have a few things that are always the same. (IE my boot drive and rack gear). I'll do another post soon about my choice outboard...but I also meant like having a vibe set up. Something I like doing is having my little collection of stuff around at different studios....BEHOLD!



I'm always bringing stuff like this around and setting it up....Not really for anybody other than me. Some clients kinda like them...some are freaked out by them....but its just my thing I like doing when I'm working. Well, that's about it for now...more to come soon. Shout out to Obama, like him, i'm trying to get mine in the '09

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Patchwerk Session

Alllllright! Legit Engineering post! (but only cuz J was trying to one up me with the Tony post....shout outs to Tony to, I know he's a regular to the blog). Got it in the other day up at Patchwerk 9000 working on some song ideas for a few peeps out there....Here's some low rent pics (you guys are just gonna have to get your deal with it on, J dropped a gem on a fly camera to make his post crispy cream, I dropped a jem on software that i'm using in the super lowfi iphone pic...)



...a bit hard to see in the pic, but I"m actually running ProTools 8 as I was talking about in my previous post. Most all studios (at least in ATL right now) aren't on 8, but i've gotten used to it, and have all my plugins are presets save on my home computer....so what I did was actually CLONE my internal hard drive from my rig, and carry that cloned drive to studios and boot off that. So in essenece, i'm only using their work rig for processing....all the software (OSX 10.5.6, ProTools 8, ALL MY PLUGINS, Logic, my personal itunes, etc...) is all off on my boot drive. So that's pretty cool...and handy.

Here's another in action:



this one you can also see something new i'm trying out...I'm having all the artists we work with sign my gear rack...only a few on there now...when it gets respectable I'll hit a proper pic then....

Alright team....that's about it for now...but I'll holler back with more soon......let's goooooooooo!

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The coolest part about working Vegas...

Was the studio, and working with P and Chad. Great people = great times. Had so much fun hanging with the assistants and staff at The Palms. Also I wanna shout out Mick for hooking us up with some BBC and Ice Cream gear. Definately had a great work experience meeting guys I really respect and look up to, and getting to actually work side by side was the shit. Heres some pics of the randomness that occurred.

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Another AJ Session.....Hate This Nigga lol

Just kiding, AJ's the best. We didnt really have a session booked but as always we got it poppin anyway. Ry Ry and the newest homie straight from the hard streets of alpharetta, a country club resident as well Justin, hes a guitar player/songwriter and hes only 15, hes dope as hell too. His mom was nice enough to bring us cookies too which was also cool. Corporal and Montay stopped thru to lend their writing expertise to a new track AJ had stashed away behind all that old lady porn on his hard drive lol. heres some pics and the song came out hot, really excited about it.


AND IM SUDDENLY DARK AS HELL AND CANT BE SEEN BY MACBOOK CAMERAS DAMN!

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Working Wit Crazy Ass AJ And Rob...No Homo

In the studio and one word describes the session... Swag lol

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