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Simple Plan

October 13th, 2008 – 6:51 pm

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Setting Up

On the rails and jib

Playing to the cameras

Last Friday, Simple Plan performed the “Hockey Theme” for a TSN recording and video shoot. They are the first of what will be several popular music groups to perform the song, and the recording/video will be used throughout the rest of the NHL season.

We ended up multi-tracking the group through the song, layering the instruments one at a time until we had about 9 layers of guitars, plus electric bass and drums. No vocals on this track of course.

We rented the Studio Mobile truck for me to engineer the recording from, which was great. Great to have a solid recording studio control room on wheels!

The guys were great to work with, and everything turned out great in the end. The planned schedule for recording and shooting the video was extremely tight, and we fell behind schedule by a couple hours through the day. No one seemed especially concerned though.

Just spent most of my holiday Monday mixing the track for broadcast this week. The track was recorded and mixed in 5.1, and I’m pretty happy with how the mix turned out The video edit turned out pretty nicely too… stay tuned to TSN and CTV to see it.

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A Historic Project

September 22nd, 2008 – 10:12 pm

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Darren conducting the orchestra

Now in the process of being mixed, last week we recorded “The Hockey Theme” for CTV & TSN at the Living Arts Centre. My friend and colleague Darren Fung conducted both ensembles through the 6 versions of the song, 4 of which were original arrangements of his, plus a new thematic piece that he composed and orchestrated as well.

More details are soon to come once the tunes are released, but here’s a photographic walkthrough of a few aspects of the recording. I can’t claim credit for the photos though. One of the other mixers I work with at CTV, Dave Midgley, took photos throughout the project though. A real treat considering I rarely have a moment to breathe during one of these sessions.