The Extinction of the Orchestral Player
If film musician employment follows the pattern of concert musicians at all, players might be fighting a losing battle. The national dialog regarding the importance of orchestral musicians is heating up in light of recent developments.
Read More →Casting Your Score
How to assemble the perfect “cast” of musicians to enhance your score.
Read More →More Bits, More People
Seems like there are a lot of ways to spend your money these days, often more money than may be coming in. What are the right choices to move your career forward? Here are a couple of contrasting ideas, both worth considering in their own context. More bits To start with, here I am wearing [...]
Read More →The Brightest Light In The Room
I’m sure you’ve had this experience: you go to a party, a meeting or seminar, or maybe just an informal gathering of people — friends, work colleagues, folks out in the world. Inevitably there is one person there who stands out, the center of attention, clearly the most confident, smartest, most successful. How did this [...]
Read More →Personal Studio Acoustics
The first hint was not being sure what was up with my bottom end. Not the one in the chair, the one in the speakers. I know, I’ve been there. In the chair, in front of the speakers. Spent a good part of my life there. I should know. I’m a mixer. (Sorry, went into [...]
Read More →Mixing: Technical Guidelines, Part 2
Recording and mixing music is a collection of skills that can take a lifetime to acquire. But almost every composer needs to do their own mixing sometimes, whether for a demo, low-budget project, or other reasons. The equipment keeps getting better and is widely available, especially with the computer software packages most composers work with. [...]
Read More →Working with Others
I started out by scratching my head a bit, considering the topic of Collaboration. After all, there’s often only one engineer in the room, particularly in composer’s personal studio. But then, I figured, even in that case I’m certainly not working alone or in a vacuum. It’s almost impossible not to work with other people [...]
Read More →Live Recording Mixing
I got my start recording score music for episodic television a couple of decades ago, when the personal studio trend was just getting going in a big way. Among many others, I engineered music for the ABC series thirtysomething with composers Stewart Levin and Snuffy Walden, and then Northern Exposure with composer David Schwartz. Both [...]
Read More →SCOREcast 11: Session Players (w/Rick Fry)
In this 11th episode, Deane interviews L.A. session guitarist Rick Fry about his guitar work on some of Deane’s recent scores.
Read More →SCOREcast 6: Managing a Live Session
Podcasting straight from the frozen tundra of Portland, Oregon, Deane is busy this week auditioning players for an album project at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, and took the opportunity in this episode to answer some listener mail about working with orchestras.
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