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Chris George:
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Since founding the Living Room in 1997 I've recorded over 50 bands, most
of which were from the New Orleans area, totaling nearly 100 actual recordings
while working around a day job doing computer drafting and several hobbies.
When I'm working with a band, I become a part of them during the process,
offering ideas, support, and sometimes criticism along the way. Generally,
my engineering goal isn't to try to make perfectly clean and polished recordings,
but to capture the performance in a way that fits the artist best. I always
try to see a band play live before I work with them to get an idea of how
they sound as a unit. Although I fall in love with tracking guitars, strings,
keys, vocals, and anything else that can be musical, I'm very passionate
about drum recording, often swapping out drums and cymbals for ones that
fit a song better and spending a good amount of time tuning them and occasionally
teaching the drummer how to as well. While tracking, I prefer moving mics
around, adjusting the EQ on the amp or guitar, physically moving the instrument
or singer, etc., as opposed to needing to EQ or compress things to death
later to try to get them to sit right in the mix. That just doesn't sound
natural (of course, doing it for an effect is a different story). I also
enjoy the challenge of trying to get the project to be sonically cohesive
during mixing yet still have it sound how the artist envisioned. In addition
to my normal engineering duties, I design, program, and update the studio's
website and do all of the graphic design, make sure the studio is clean
and properly furnished, handle most of the booking, ads, and promotion,
and have designed album layouts and shot photos for several bands.
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