Jazz Improv / October 17 2008
When the one-eyed jazz saxophonist who had booked the attended mastering session arrived wearing the stripiest satin waistcoat I had ever seen and sat down behind me at the mixing desk, I realised I had forgotten to ask him his real name; up until that point I had been calling him Mr Lips, his stage [...]
Jazz Job Completed / October 16 2008
As I thought I would, I finished the jazz album mastering session last night in less than three hours.
I’m a fool to myself, I really am. I could have stretched the session out if I had had a mind to do so, and made a considerable profit, but instead I worked twice as efficiently as [...]
Jazz Band Mastering Marathon / October 15 2008
I have an attended mastering session booked in tomorrow.
A jazz band contacted me a few weeks ago wanting to come in to the studio and master an album of traditional swing numbers. They have stipulated it be an attended session and are adamant it will take three or four days.
Apparently there are about twenty tracks, [...]
Mood Swings and Elevators / June 15 2008
Punk drummer Sonny Starr paid the studio a visit yesterday. I was incredibly busy as usual and did not have the time to pay him much attention or to patronise him in the way to which he has become accustomed.
After he’d finished telling me about how he’d had a ‘right good blow-job’ from a member [...]
. . . And All That Jazz / March 24 2007
Aren’t guitars great? I’ve just bought a new one: a gold seventies Fender Jazz Bass. It’s gorgeous.
I don’t play bass much but I needed one for various recording duties and this beauty winked at me in the dusty shop and whispered: ‘We should be together.’
I have several guitars: an 80s black and white Fender Telecaster [...]
