Do you need musicians?

musicians2order · Joined: Mar 29, 2005 Posts: 1 Location: England

I work for a music production company and i need to find some specific information of peoples production habits. If you could spare five minutes to fill in this short questionnaire it would be greatly appreciated.

1.Where are you from? (Country)

2.What genre of music do you make?

3.Does your music require live instruments that you can not obtain?
eg. basslines, loops, vocals, piano, guitar etc....

4.If so, which intruments would you be needing?

5.Would you pay for a professional musician to play on your track, recorded to your specifications via the internet?

6.How much would you pay for:
a) a four bar loop
b) bassline for a whole track
c) whole drum track
d) a guitar riff

Thank you for your time

mosc · Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2005 10:47 am Post subject:

I'm an independent electro-musician. I would not consider buying any loops or tracks from anyone else, but I would collaborate. As for genres, the definitions are so vague that they are meaningless to me.

opg · Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2005 12:17 pm Post subject:

I LOVE SURVEYS!

1. Philadelphia, PA

2. Genre? Listen to my music and let me know Smile

3. Sometimes. I use soundfonts or old album samples if I am looking for a real instrument sound. But mostly, I use old Casio keyboards and trackers/VSTis based on old video game systems.

4. Real instruments that I like to use but am currently dissatisfied with the soundfont sound quality would be: vintage choir sounds (think of 1930s war propaganda films), upright bass with lots of fret/wood noise variations, Wurlitzer pianos with very little fuzz but lots of definition, "poorly" recorded drumsets from the 1970s in which the set was recorded with no reverb and no drum sustain/rings could be heard, grockenspiels and vibraphones recorded in mono with ribbon microphones.

5. Perhaps. See the answers to question #6.

6. I would not be looking for loops or riffs or entire tracks, just one-shot samples recorded with lots of variations (hence my attraction to soundfonts). For example, I would purchase a CD of said 1970s drumset hits in which there were many different velocity levels and timres of each drum (snare drums, hi-hats, and ride cymbals in particular) if they were recorded with vintage equipment.

My main interest is the TECHNOLOGY used to record these sounds. I wouldn't pay a dime if you recorded a Pearl drumset from 1996 in which every piece of the set was miked with brand new microphones and recorded digitally. It would have to be recorded with old microphones to reel-to-reel in order to recreate the exact sound from that era but without the problems that cutting up a loop from vinyl comes with (especially when it comes to ride cymbal delays).

So basically- I would pay $25-$40 a CD (with one instrument per CD) if you were able to adequately record these instruments with vintage equipment. That's a tall order, I know.

Kassen · Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2005 1:26 pm Post subject:

Oh, can we ask for that too? Then I´m with OPG! I´d like that stuff too, and 60´s garage sound, with and without springreverb! And 30´s Jazz brush hits. Preferably with matching impulse responces for wax cilinders, tape and vinyl.

This should ideally sound like the instrumentalists has had a few drinks too many and the engineer is a greying expert with a belly and a moustache that has seen it all and could take the disk apart with his eyes closed but is currently held back by the amount of pot smoke in the room.

And Tom Waits drums.

please.

opg · Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2005 7:40 pm Post subject:

I forgot about Tom Waits! I think it was the first track on the "Rain Dogs" album - "Singapore" with the greatest junk set of drums I have ever heard. I think it's the ultimate pirate song. I could never record anything like it. That song is brilliant.

and then "What's he building in there?"

Kassen · Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2005 9:30 pm Post subject:

"Swordfish trombones" is currently on my table, next to a copy of "join hands" by the banshees (more realy messed up techniques there!). I need Raindogs on vinyl too.

The night before I made a attempt at getting T.W. drums, then yesterday there were aparently complaints about noise. Reportedly the downstairs neighbour had heard "people fighting and tables being moved".

That could´ve been avoided had there been a decent source of ready made samples!
;¬)

jksuperstar · Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2005 9:36 pm Post subject:

Horror sample stories...that's begging for it's own thread:)

Kassen · Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2005 9:58 pm Post subject:

YEAH!