Wild Bill




I got to stop in and visit my old buddy Bill Deaton the other day. These are some shots from his new studio space, I really love the vibe and all the brick and hardwood. Bill helped engineer the first record I ever produced and he was the first and hopefully last engineer to ever record my vocal. (sorry bill) He's a great guy and a consumate entrepeneur and he just never ever quits trying new things, which I admire about him. When it comes to superchic[k], I refer to him as the "first person who believed" and without him, I wouldn't be here today. Bill loaned us those 2 huge racks in the picture for a couple months, showed us how to use them and we loaded them up in the van and took them home. After we were done tracking, Bill flew out to my house, we set up in my living room and spent a month mixing the karaoke superstars record. At the time, no one had ever tried to do that, so we were pretty much figuring it out as we went. I do believe, that we were the first commercially released record that was mixed on a computer. To get the stuff that we wanted, we had both of our macs locked together, one running logic, the other pro-tools and we had to do some pretty serious latency compensation voodoo to get them to sync up. At the time Mackie kindly loaned us one of their brand new digital boards, but eventually we just migrated to the computers. The KS record doesn't sound as great as I'd like it to, back then, the computers were substantially less powerful, but I'll never forget that month we spend in my living room in the undiscovered country of new technology.

Posted: Sat - August 27, 2005 at 01:43 PM          

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