It’s been a rather long week and longer still that I haven’t posted anything here. To be honest, I wish I had as I don’t remember all the things I have done since the start of last week. So I’ll do my best to recap.

Last week we had the 70-piece orchestra in which grew to an 80-piece for the first day! I’ve never seen Galaxy so busy as that which was nice, though at times it was actually stressful. For instance, during the breaks I helped at the bar, making coffee or taking money for the soft drinks etc trying to serve 80 people who I had trouble understanding. Not their fault of course, they start talking in French and I can at least tell them I only speak English. Still, the accent can make it difficult to decipher what they are asking for when it’s that busy. That aside, the session went extremely well. They were booked for four days with an optional fifth day and finished after three and a half! I didn’t get to hear much but I know that some Ludolf Nielson and Beethoven was played, I’m looking forward to hearing Patrick’s final mix.

This was also the final week for the previous intern Brian Bourque, who has now flown back to New York after his three month stay here. You could say he was the senior intern and I was the junior. He taught me about the responsibilities here and now it’s my turn to teach the new guy, a French student called Steven. It feels weird that he gone now. For the past 6 weeks I worked with him, ate with him, drank with him, breathed the same air and played computer games with him. Now he’s gone. I guess he probably felt the same way when Sis (the guy before him) left. For his last couple of days, he joined me on the locking up of the studio each night, almost like a personal goodbye to the studio. However for the REAL goodbye, we had a lot of drinks! I hope to keep in touch with him, I’m going to miss the guy and it would be good to have another friend in NY. The dude was metal!

So, I was meant to be having a quiet weekend but instead I managed to get some work to do! Tom Van Achte, one of the managers here was recording vocals for a band called Deezel and I was here to help! I don’t know if I can talk about the song yet, so I’ll ask and update this later. The band are cool though, you can listen to them here on their myspace account. It turns out that I know a little bit more about ProTools than him because he prefers Nuendo, so it meant I got to look all smart! We ended up talking for a couple of hours after that about cool developments, mixing techniques and toys and in the end, decided to have a little competition; who ever can produce the best mix, sticks their name on that track! Competition is the mother of invention and who knows, this could be release for me. To top it all off, he gave me Easter eggs!

On Sunday is when Steven arrived, so after showing him the place and making sure he was fed, we chilled out with Tron Legacy. Man I love that movie. The sound design is phenomenal and the music works so well in the film. Not too mention the in-jokes and references back to the original film and Jeff Bridges just being…well, Jeff Bridges. Steven had been travelling for 10 hours after all and I didn’t feel it was fair to make him do any work after that. It would be messing with his zen thing. No one wants that.

I let him help me out on Monday though with the mix, and I learned more about the toys we have to play with that day too such as the Line 6 ModPro and the Eventide DSP4000 – SERIOUSLY COOL. Before I knew it, it was 1AM already and here I am today, writing this blog. Today has been fun so far. First thing after breakfast, I got Steven to work! We had to carry a desk back up the tightest stairwell to it’s original office. I now look like I’ve been self harming!



Since then, I’ve been QC’ing the broadcast mix of A Pelada and helping to push the buttons on an ADR session now. That’s all for now folks, talk to you again soon!

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