Seeking ProTools friends for DIY basement recording (SE Portland)
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*** Please send links when responding. Lot's of replies with no context or way for me to hear or see what you do. Music time is limited so if you're interested in some ProTools sessions let me check out what you do to see if its a fit. SoundCloud, BandCamp, social media, YouTube, website, etc. Thanks!
Are you currently fluent in ProTools, have micing/engineering experience, interested in creative music production and want to apply your DAW skills to a new project?
Trying to chip away at current, no-budget, twelve-song album in my basement. I have several other albums lined up behind that. Instruments, mics and DAW always up and ready to go! Have already rough tracked most songs at least once, just not happy with my own engineering results or the amount of bandwidth it takes to do every single thing myself - which is where my album projects always lose steam. So I'm looking for help to manage eq, mix, mic moves, gain staging, editing, automations, etc, so that all tracks sound less Pro Tools sterile, have atmosphere, sit properly together and ready to for mastering. I'm very interested in how something is "produced" vs just hitting record and calling it good then moving on. It's more of a building and shaping process for me to get all the instruments and layers in place.
I write a lot, have scores of songs waiting to record. I create layered parts for all instruments and vocal harmonies, can get the bones of it down in demo form, but that's as far as I get. Willing to share my gear and space with others to help their own projects if they can bring some productive expertise to mine. Or just hang out and talk recording if you can bring some experience to my DIY music zone.
Always looking to create unique and original recordings, but the reference recordings I like are analog era albums, jangly rock, surf, psyche, folk, early punk, blues, rockabilly, Motown, Americana, British invasion, spaghetti westerns, 50's, 60's 70's, Kinks, Stones, Doors, Zeppelin, Seeds, Love, Animals, Hendrix, Stooges, Buddy Holly, Pink Floyd, The Clash, David Bowie + Pixies, QOTSA, Idles, Police, Fugazi, the first No Age album, Neutral Milk Hotel, etc...
Looking forward to talking shop with people that know their way around the DAW/basement recording challenge. Context counts, please send links or samples or background to get a conversation started.