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The daily adventures of mixerman are back

mfbridges — Thu, 12 Aug 2004 09:48:13 -0800

The daily adventures of mixerman are back. Mixerman has started posting a new set of diary entries about his recording sessions with an anonymous band. His original diary (discussed here) is now available in hardcover.

By: gottabefunky

gottabefunky — Thu, 12 Aug 2004 10:09:08 -0800

Nice! I was hoping he'd start again. The first ones are great.

By: cmonkey

cmonkey — Thu, 12 Aug 2004 10:10:12 -0800

Is it the same band his earlier diaries talked about, or a new one? I must have spent an entire workday reading those.

By: edlundart

edlundart — Thu, 12 Aug 2004 11:15:22 -0800

woo-hoo! thanks! i was ADDICTED to his last diary. i'm planning on buying the book.

By: uncleozzy

uncleozzy — Thu, 12 Aug 2004 11:45:37 -0800

I really liked the first diary, but the entries in this one so far seem like too much detail and too little action. But then again, I've got a bit of a short attention span when it comes to reading. Still, I'm psyched to read some more.

By: bluno

bluno — Thu, 12 Aug 2004 12:06:32 -0800

yeah... this one is not nearly as engaging of a read. But he certainly is capturing the tedium of a recording session well. BTW - what band was being recorded in the original series?

By: bingbangbong

bingbangbong — Thu, 12 Aug 2004 12:55:48 -0800

bluno - Nobody Knows. The band's identity, as well Mixerman's, has been the subject of great speculation on various industry forums. Apparently a bunch of pros know who he is, but they're not telling.

By: bingbangbong

bingbangbong — Thu, 12 Aug 2004 13:13:26 -0800

And I agree - these installments are very boring. The first were riveting. These not so much. He spent three paragraphs talking about the producer's couch, for the love of pete.

By: Zonker

Zonker — Thu, 12 Aug 2004 15:22:50 -0800

He's just getting started, folks, give him a chance to find his rhythm once again. About the band: I think that Mixerman pretty much admitted that the Bitch Slap sessions and his diaries documenting them were fictional. If I remember this correctly, he wrote a post some time towards the end of the previous batch that said, in essence, that the point of the diaries was to serve as a guide to aspiring recording engineers, illustrated and kept lively with anecdotes compiled from across his career. And so you have illustrations of the truly awful assistant (Lance, in the first week or two), the adequate assistant (Lance again, after learning a thing or two) and the excellent assistant ("Rod", from the New York sessions). So I wouldn't be surprised to hear that many of the details are true, but I'd bet that they didn't all happen in the same set of sessions. (And either way, the first batch of diaries was fantastic reading. )

By: Lynsey

Lynsey — Thu, 12 Aug 2004 16:02:04 -0800

Woo, Mixerman! Can't wait to read more....

By: stavrosthewonderchicken

stavrosthewonderchicken — Thu, 12 Aug 2004 19:11:05 -0800

[this is good]

By: Espoo2

Espoo2 — Fri, 13 Aug 2004 00:33:24 -0800

word.