Memories of Miss Memory

Tweak Laboratory closed its Bondi Junction doors this week after 7 years. The studio has been such a hit that since 2002 it has never advertised, and all work that comes through the door is from word of mouth.

The studio has always been very client focused. Each artist is unique and is treated as such. As well as serving some smaller corporate companies, it also has served as source of support for artists, including providing services in production, composition, recording and mixdown. A great list of credits have come through the door. One of the first was DJ Bonez in early 2003, when Paul Newcomb was engineering. Others include Australian composer Gavin Lockley, Single Gun Theory lead woman, Jacqui Hunt, spoken word artist Tom Jack of Hearts, JJJ unearthed winner Yunyu, multi-award winning composer Davood Tabrizi, virtuoso violinist Sophie Serafino, Australian electro label Southern Outpost, and dozens of local Sydney popular and underground artists who have enjoyed the personal touch, career consultation, referrals, and above all, the care they deserve when working to create, develop or finalise their musical creations.

Currently the studio is in transit, while i wander off to europe for a month, and with a bit of luck and a lot of construction, re-open in Darlinghurst early September.

Thanks to all my clients and musical friends for making Bondi Junction a safe haven for a boutique recording studio. See you all again really soon.

I have dealt with my fair share of sound engineers over the years but you sir, take the cake.

It was clear from the outset that you were new at the job, or maybe you were just pre-occupied with something else when you were setting up. During sound check, disappearing from a desk while leaving faders up is not the cleverest thing to do. Maybe your employer hasn’t seen you working yet, or maybe you forgot your lessons from Sound Engineering School. Even though we had a full hour sound check you decided not to check the levels properly so that when the house was full, the mics were either feeding back or distorting and the instrument channels weren’t up. Did you forget to mark your channels clearly?

But worst of all Mr Sound Engineer, when the concerned promoter of the night comes up to you to ask you to check the front of house speakers during a DJ set, I fail to see why you would threaten to have them forcibly removed. It was a sincere enough question asked by not only the promoter, but other keen beat heads in the room.

The Civic Underground Sound System is one of the best in Sydney, but you made it sound terrible. If I ever have the misfortune of seeing you again when I am the promoter of an event at the Civic, or any other event I will ask for you to be taken off the job. It’s people like you that ruin people’s hearing and make bad vibes for an otherwise amazing event.

I will be taking up the matter with your employer.

Yours sincerely,

Sofie

Just a heads up that I am DJ’ing down at Flunked this Thursday night, hopefully I will get to play all those fab new tracks I was saving up for last Friday night, but was having waay too much fun on the dancefloor to get up and play.

Where: UTS Loft Bar
When: Thursday 18th June
Howmuchie: Free-ie
When: 8pm