what is your single best recording ever?

[dwoz]

Think back a bit. Remember that recording, that clearly stands out as your best EVER? a shining diamond laying there in the mud?


Well, that recording makes you feel good, eh? a great example of your abilities?


So, what I'm wondering about, is the fact that you can feel good about that. Because what it really means, is that the VAST MAJORITY of your recordings, perhaps as many as 99 percent of them, WERE NOT EXACTLY YOUR BEST WORK.


Ok, so who's got questions?


dwoz

[Pimp-X]

Ok, so who's got questions?


I've got one.

Why do I suddenly feel like crying?





:lol:

[Fulcrum]

Yeah, way to make an entrance, dwoz.

Now where did you hide the barbiturates? I'd settle for the anticonvulsants in a pinch.

[nobby]

Think back a bit. Remember that recording, that clearly stands out as your best EVER? a shining diamond laying there in the mud?




I'd settle for a highly polished turd laying there in the mud :icon_mrgreen:

[archtop]

Well not my single best but one with the biggest verb,

API, 2".


from gods own medium:

cassette to mp3

[Aardvark]

Well not my single best but one with the biggest verb,

API, 2".


from gods own medium:

cassette to mp3

Love the lyrics!!!


Nice to see you Arch!

[J.G.]

Mine's got to be, hands down, "I Am So Cool, I Will Not Drool", recorded back in '76--as lo-fi as they come, but the performance is perturbingly potent.

[clicktrack]

So, what I'm wondering about, is the fact that you can feel good about that. Because what it really means, is that the VAST MAJORITY of your recordings, perhaps as many as 99 percent of them, WERE NOT EXACTLY YOUR BEST WORK.


Ok, so who's got questions?


dwoz


Yah...I got one.

Is this the quote I should take to my bank manager at our next yearly review?

Just checkin.

[bbkong]

Best ever?

Ask me next year.

The coolest thing I probably ever did was an acappella cover of 'Yo Cash Aint Nothin But Trash' I did on my first 8 track in '84, establishing my reputation for sounding intoxicated on a mic regardless of my alcohol content.

It was my year of brutal self realization.

[FajitaTone]

they're on my website: http://www.fajita.net/Bio.html

Click on Sample Music

[The Diz]

you don't know me from the other place. but i made the move.

probably not just my best ever, but best ever overall.

http://cdbaby.com/cd/aggth

[SevenatoR]

No diamonds yet, just mud. I'm still waiting for the Talent VST plugin.

[otek]

Haven't made mine yet.

I will call you when that happens, though.


otek

[Goes211]

It's the next one.
Always the next one.

How lucky are we ? We get a chance to better ourselves EVERY time.

[Azraphael]

Goes, as usual, hit the proverbial nail on the head.

Now, I'm not an AE, nor do I play one on TV. But, from a muso point of view, I figure that the best recording in my entire catalogue should always be the last one I made.

Otherwise, what's the point?

Cheers,

Dave

[Mixerpuppet]

Haven't made mine yet.

I will call you when that happens, though.


otek


Ditto and don't hold your breath for that phone call...


Best recording is a moving goal post...

[Comte de St Germain]

The first one.


And the next one.

[invisibl]

Think back a bit. Remember that recording, that clearly stands out as your best EVER? a shining diamond laying there in the mud?


Well, that recording makes you feel good, eh? a great example of your abilities?


So, what I'm wondering about, is the fact that you can feel good about that. Because what it really means, is that the VAST MAJORITY of your recordings, perhaps as many as 99 percent of them, WERE NOT EXACTLY YOUR BEST WORK.


Ok, so who's got questions?


dwoz



Is this the forum to ask about questions about reason? woot?

[malice]

The next one

malice

[Starfucker]

The last one



...and the next one

[malice]

The last one



...and the next one


Oh no, my last one sucked. But I'll be doing better next time :D

malice

[chrisj]

The one I'm not quite finished with yet...

Once it's finished, sucks to be me because then the best one becomes the one I just started :D

Better you should ask what my second best one is!

[AxeSlash]

My best one's probably gonna happen 20 years from now.

Right now I'm getting better with every track I mix, so I can't really say any particular recording, because by the time I've finished with it, it's "out of date" to my mind already.

Which is a bad place to be because you just end up going around and around and around in circles...

[burnsy]

As of yet im only to have yet pulled off a mix which was recorded by somone else.
However I am in the process of making that change, but again I doubt that I will ever be happy with my work bit like my hobbies im always looking to impove.

[lebouche]

I've never even been happy with a recording yet....still I reckon its because I don't have a clue what I'm doing, only faith in my opinion. People say I'm being tough on myself but its realistic..you cant just expect to be good at things without the knowledge. I learn a lot from forums and I learn the most from my mistakes.
I do however still have my favorite mistakes.
I look forward to checking all your fav tracks out.

[Tim Armstrong]

Mine would be the six-song cassette my kinda punky/garage band did back in 1986, recorded with two mics into a Fostex X-15 cassette 4-track. Not that the recording quality was all that high (obviously!), but because we absolutely believed in what we were doing, played with a whole lot of passion, and had insane amounts of fun while doing it.

I've come close a few times since then, but that was pretty much a peak life experience!

Cheers, Tim