Mon to fri was devoted to part/sound selection and mixing 3 of the tracks to appear on p.j. wilson,s new ...   more »

Paul Wilson vocal tracks manipulated in after noon.He came in to sing another two lead vox for his album in the evening.
Yet again vocal comping duties tues afternoon for paul,s tracks ,and he came in to sing the final two titles at night.We are getting there!
With the motherwell game in the evening papped the studio and and massaged 3 clients at the treatment room in edinburgh.2-1 victory[albeit rather ugly win] earned the boys at hearts 5 days aff!!! yihpee!!!
thurs met up with pals Dave paton and Bob heatlie for an old punchdrunk studioowners talk-in at the Tusitala roadhouse.Lots of hot air being talked about modern computer recording v the old ways! mainly by moi!!!
Fri saw ed and i having a little breathing space in the studio to experiment with various mastering techniques
and fine tuning or vocal manipulating skills! a very useful and constructive exercise!
Sat was invited to the opening of Bob Heatie,s son ,s personal training gym down opposite meadowbank retail centre.Very impressive indeed with the latest hi-tech machines and on site advice from the man himself MICHAEL[ ta ra] HEATLIE personal trainer to Gwen Stefani.Alex Arthur who Mike had previously trained cut the opening ribbon and Mike gave a the longest speech since the Ghettesburg Address.By jove that boy can talk !
I sincerely hope the venture has the success it deserves as a lot of money and hard work has gone into it!

it all starts again on Mon. looking forward to a relaxing sun

see you next week.

Dave and Ed.

Another week ot contrasting recording/mixing-who cares keep it coming folks!
paul wilson back in to complete his album he started last year
again he was well organised and had his music beds off to a tee!
ed worked on the tracks with him utilising some interesting plug-ins to embelish pauls parts!
I for my sins hogged the other computer and ploughed through the pdf for the autotune 5 manual
and discovered some interesting tricks you can achieve with it!
Worked on dave davis,s organ album-concentrating on his glen millar selection.
The tea dance crowd are gonna love this album !!
Wedensday saw us at the mastering stage on Dave,s album which is sounding good .
my mum and dad are going to love it!as a lot of the tracks they would have danced to
when they were courting!!
Ed got on with Paul,s basic tracks getting them ready for Paul singing on thurs.
Final mastering of Dave Davis,s album completed.he has got shot of his huge Technics organ
and acquired an even bigger Lowrey organ and youv,e guessed it!-he wants to record an other album
on this beast!!!
Paul was up on thurs evening to sing two of the tracks for his album. I for my part could not help a small
titter whilst directing Paul on how to phrase a line in the song Dangerous -which included the lyric----
FISHY MINGE. eat your heart out Bernie Taupin.!!!
Fri saw prof David Purdie and Cammy Goodall up to discuss the ongoing RBT Burns project.
it looks like Aileen Carr has recovered from her voice probs so it,s full steam ahead to finish the audio cd
with narration from David and a few of the best known poem,s from Cammy!
Completed the week comping Paul,s vocals from thurs night he is in again on Mon afternoon to do another couple of songs.
Sat evening -Ed did the lights for Crystle flame events at the middleton hall across the road from the studio
which was very busy apparently .a really good venue and it,s available for hire!!

on another note the jambo,s crept into a 5 point 3rd place spot in the league thanks to winning fairly ugly
on sat against dundee utd at tannadice!!! ya beauty- If they win on wed against motherwell --5 days aff!
and can concentrate on studio workl! mabye even a little creativity! as Chic Murray said--YOU NEVER KNOW!!

[BEWARE OF THE IDES OF MARCH]-see you next week !