Dave Grohl

Dave Grohl is by far one of my most favorite, most respected idolised people in the public eye, in fact at all. I mean his music, yeah that's pretty cool... but I like a lot of music.

I mean as a person, as a human, especially someone who is very much in the public eye, he is so unbelievably grounded and down to earth. He never says anything controversial, nor is he a dick in interviews, in fact I've seen him in so many interviews where most "rockstars" wouldn't even bother with.

Today, I saw This. I've seen many before, but this has to be one of the best collections. They're reports of Dave not only being human, but actually a fucking awesome human.

There's a part of me that wishes the foo fighters played generic commercial pop music, maybe even some EDM, just so their awesomeness will be spread amongst more people, especially the easily influenced youth.

Anyhow, I will leave you with this, a reported tweet by the man himself (I don't use twitter so can't confirm this)

"Nickleback walk into a bar. There is no punchline since ruining music isn't funny."

Cheers Dave you Legend.

Mancheska

Recently I got an email from a local 8 piece ska band wanting to do some demo recordings with some students. Of course I was going to grab this opportunity!!!

Sadly, The day they could do was the day I have 7 hours of Uni. Luckily Chris English was on hand who handled the recording side of things with little input from me apart from some ideas mic techniques. He saved the day and got some great takes

The band - Mancheska, were awesome to work with. They are all RNCM students or ex students, so were very talented musicians and oh so tight together!!!

Sam Flynn, the leader if you will, was cracking at directing the session, I think he wrote most of the music too! Talented Fella!

The area I really wanted to sound ace was the horn section. The band consists of a bassist, guitarist, vocalist, drummer, keys, baritone sax, alto sax, trumpet and trombone. so the horns played a bit part!! We mic'd up each one with a Senheiser MD421 and then had a stereo pair of Beyerdynamic Ribbon mics to really add some lovely textures to the tone!!! I was most worried about this part, but they came out as one of the more proud parts of the session

I've been mixing the tracks the past two days, with some difficulties, the vocals have been sounding quite thin, the U87 didn't compliment the ska sound one bit! next time valve mic I think! (either a Neumann 147 or an AKG solid tube possibly)
but a bit of parallel compression, some harmonic distortion, especially in the lows from the AIR Enhancer and some bomb-factory 1176 compression, we're getting there!

I can not wait to mix these, so far I've only been able to do touch ups on headphones and on some small genelecs, but with the spirit studio on saturday with Sam, only good can come from this! Will keep this updated :)

check em out here...
http://mancheskamusic.com/
https://twitter.com/mancheskamusic
http://facebook.com/mancheskamusic
https://www.youtube.com/user/MancheskaMusic