Zen Studios & The Art Of Noise Maintenance
Aug. 9th, 2004 10:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
waitingmanLet me say this right from the word go... I hate rehearsal studios. They're noisy, smoky, poorly maintained, windowless & far-from-soundproof holes in the ground that bear absolutely no resemblance to Bag End whatsoever. And they're expensive to be in to boot. $51.00 for 3 hours in a fluorescent buzzing, sticky carpeted box with a malfunctioning PA system that only farts into life when it feels like it - usually 10 minutes before the end of your 3 hour session.
For all of the above reasons, I particularly hate Zen Studios in St Peters. Nothing against the suburb - it's very close to where I used to live. Nothing against the industrial estate it's in... just Zen Studios. They're 'orrible.
There... that's done. Now, the reason Bernard & I were there, was to check out our sweated-over backing tracks, making sure that when we do these gigs at the end of the month, there won't be any nasty surprises in the mix. Well, there were surprises for us tonight - like how long it's been since we've played some of the songs we bravely tacked this evening. We made the metal band in the room next door sound great by comparison - for the first hour anyway... Can it really be almost a year since we last played half our repertoire?? By the sounds of things this evening - oh yes it can.
So, little bits of tinkering & tweaking to be done to our band-in-a-box & lots of manual finger-tearing rehearsal & practice for us real players. Elizabeth would never forgive us if we didn't...
Happy enough with this decision, I'm going to bed... eventually.
For all of the above reasons, I particularly hate Zen Studios in St Peters. Nothing against the suburb - it's very close to where I used to live. Nothing against the industrial estate it's in... just Zen Studios. They're 'orrible.
There... that's done. Now, the reason Bernard & I were there, was to check out our sweated-over backing tracks, making sure that when we do these gigs at the end of the month, there won't be any nasty surprises in the mix. Well, there were surprises for us tonight - like how long it's been since we've played some of the songs we bravely tacked this evening. We made the metal band in the room next door sound great by comparison - for the first hour anyway... Can it really be almost a year since we last played half our repertoire?? By the sounds of things this evening - oh yes it can.
So, little bits of tinkering & tweaking to be done to our band-in-a-box & lots of manual finger-tearing rehearsal & practice for us real players. Elizabeth would never forgive us if we didn't...
Happy enough with this decision, I'm going to bed... eventually.
