[RWP] Performing actions to a large number of tracks.

[Chris Belle]

Hey Kev, you are still pretty young, and full of energy, when you get older, you may decide to make a stand someplace and build something.

But I dig it, there's something to be said for making the best out of what you have, unfortunetly,
I ran in to so many hurtles banging my head against the wall, I'd get that perfect guitar take only to have a big truck come by and ruin my recording.

So it's not so much about competing, rather than just having adequate tools to do the job right, and I've found that the rooms, being quiet and reasonably well done for acoustics is like a bottom line.

YOu are still primarily more in to performing and recording than the engineering side of things, as you have expressed,
 my move toward recording other people more instead of performing has largely been dictated by my health, but 
even so, if I were still gigging,
I'd be driven nuts by trying to record in a apartment or where ever.

Doing midi, or mixing and such wouldn't be so bad, I don't care about premium pres and or any of the my daw is better than your daw or gear kind of thing,
either, because nobody can hear that stuff up to a point anyway, never had anyone come to me and say, hey that sucks, that was recorded with reaper, or sonar, not protools, or I can hear those mackie pres in there, they suck,
you should have used avilon blah blah blah,
but I have gotten comments about my recording space, modest as it is.

The bottom line is it attracts business.

And makes my job so much easier.

I should have done this when I was your age,
but I was too busy trying to be a rock star 'grin',
well, you know what I mean,
so much energy and performing seemed like it could go on forever.

But you may be lucky and experience good health way up in years,
and never have to change what your doing.

Anyway, what your doing right now is most excellent,
I had the feeling you were going to do world class stuff when I heard you back when you were a teenager.
ON good days, sometimes I can still sing like that,
or get in that space in my own way if you know what I mean, but these days I'm mostly doing it vicariously from encouraging my folks I record with,
and giving them the experience of my years of doing this stuff.
So it's all good.

You just never know what life is going to hand you,
no I won't quote that old tired Forest Gumph line ha ha.

Keep doing what you do best Kev, we all love it.


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Kevin Reeves 
  To: Reapers Without Peepers 
  Sent: Saturday, August 24, 2013 10:12 AM
  Subject: Re: [RWP] Performing actions to a large number of tracks.


  When I was younger, I had a dream of having a house modified for studio use.

  Well, as they say, life is what happens when you're making plans. Now, 
  I've resolved myself to be completely mobile: all the time. My studio is 
  in my bedroom, living room, on my patio, a coffee shop, in a car going 
  down the road, anywhere I am.

  My creativity is spurred by the weird places I record. I prefer to 
  record drums in real, untreated spaces. The drums for my first album 
  were recorded in a bedroom, and this current project, a dining room with 
  extremely high ceilings.

  I've just come to the conclusion that I don't want to be judged on 
  space, gear, what daw I use, etc. I want to be hired on taste. I farm 
  out some stuff to other studios, and do other things right here in 
  house, or in car, or in wherever. It's how I roll anymore.

  I just have lost the desire to compete with anyone else in this space. 
  The guy with the 10 Universal audio preamps is gonna win anyway, so why 
  not bring something unique to the table.

  Kevin, a bedroom studio guy after all these years.

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