Comments on: I Want Horns on My Record – Now What?

By: elizabeth! » Blog Archive » How to Record Horns

elizabeth! » Blog Archive » How to Record Horns — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 16:37:02 +0000

[...] make it successful, and to lessen the stress of one part of it, I wrote this article last year for MusicianWages.com, which is a great site for musician advice run by Cameron Mizell and Dave [...]

By: Seth Kibel

Seth Kibel — Mon, 11 May 2009 14:59:53 +0000

Excellent article!
The only thing that Elizabeth forgot to mention is that it’s been scientifically proven that recordings with real horn sections sell 53% more tracks than those without horns. The same study also showed that using synth horns greatly increases ones chances of catching swine flu.

By: Bobby M

Bobby M — Fri, 08 May 2009 16:09:43 +0000

Nicely put! – Clear and to the point- Way to work Hyphen!

By: timpaulbass

timpaulbass — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 15:36:15 +0000

Thanks Elizabeth!
very informative and timely article pour moi:)
tp

By: Mike Irwin

Mike Irwin — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 02:42:19 +0000

Great article, Elizabeth!

Viva Moishe!!

By: Clark Gayton

Clark Gayton — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 23:35:01 +0000

Nice one, Elizabeth!
Everyone with a mic should read this. If there’s one thing I can’t stand is walking into a studio with no mic stands or mics set up. At least two hours of everyone’s time is wasted waiting for “the dude” to set up.

By: liam

liam — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 20:20:24 +0000

dropping truth bombs…

By: Jesse Selengut

Jesse Selengut — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 16:37:37 +0000

Exactly: This is great stuff. Quite a spectrum of different situations we all have run into. That last session we did in Jersey was a great example of getting taken care of in all the best ways. Amen… I have to remember the arranging/composing part next time when I establish a rate with someone. I forget that there is gads more experience they are drawing on when they ask us to make up our own stuff. Good writing, DW!

By: Matt Morrell

Matt Morrell — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:47:45 +0000

This is terrific advice, worth boiling down into a checklist and repeating over and over before recording. I recently worked with a cellist and arranger for the first time and could have used this article. I asked for a simple part and got back a wild, untamed arrangement, which was excellent but took way more time than we were expecting. Also, I hadn’t thought through the fact that a cellist might need a different kind of headphones than a guitar player. We improvised with some earbuds but that could have been thought through earlier.

Thanks for the great article!

By: David J. Hahn

David J. Hahn — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:22:24 +0000

Great advice – thanks Elizabeth!