Chords for Creative Cribs - Tree Adams (NCIS)

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Hello, welcome to the Treehouse.
Tree Adams here.
Right this [E] way.
_ _ [N] This is the vestibule where we will have lunch and hang around. _ _
This is the golden rhino which is essential to the full functioning of the studio.
_ Any studio for that matter.
_ _ And then here we have our, kind of the main room where I will do a lot of the writing
and _ where we mix.
_ And I'll have meetings for playback and stuff with producers and directors.
We can do like maybe [C#m] 10 or 12 strings or _ a band ensemble with drums, guitar, bass, keys,
that [N] kind of thing.
Well over here, this is kind of where I've got a lot of the compression stuff.
There's a company called Overstayer.
I'm a big fan of their work.
_ This is a saturator which is basically like a harmonic distortion _ _ _ _ piece of gear.
And you can really do a lot to _ give stuff muscle with that thing.
And we'll patch it in over there through the patch bay.
And then this is their stereo compressor.
This little box is incredible. _
It's got a blend knob that allows you, where's the blend knob?
Right here.
The blend knob allows you to basically _ _ get like the sickest sounding compression you
want and then kind of dial in how much of that in the regular signal you want.
Which is a great kind of mix. _
_ It's very flexible.
_ And then of course an 1176 which I think is somewhat ubiquitous but essential.
_ _ _ _ This Avalon is sort of good for certain applications. _ _ _ _
And then a couple of other _ _ mic pre's here.
This Vintech audio is cool.
It's got some Neve 1272's in it.
That's a custom _ job made here in Southern California.
_ _ _ And this TLA2.
_ It's been a good workhorse.
I guess typically I've got a template going with VE Pro where I've got a lot of my samples set up.
Use a lot of Spitfire audio in there. _
And that's just kind of in every session so that _ _ the main rig is connected to it and triggering all the sample libraries.
_ I do really love _ even when using an electronic score or any kind of samples to combine it with as much live recording as possible.
So I'm a big fan of just putting a mic up and hitting stuff.
So come with me over to the drum room where silly things occur. _ _ _
_ _ So sometimes I _ do a lot of music that requires like _ _ propulsive _ elements, tension or energy.
And so _ _ sometimes obviously we'll have a drummer come in.
Sometimes I've got a few guys on my team helping me.
We'll all just come in here and take turns _ beating on _ _ _ water jugs.
I've got a chroma harp that I keep out of tune _ [F#] _ _ for anything sort of horror oriented.
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_ [F#] You get a lot of mileage out of that. _ _
And I think generally just the more air we can put on things the better.
So this is kind of one of my airing it out rooms.
And I like, you know, we've got a collection of microphones over here.
I'll throw up anointment and just put, you know, hitting something in time to whatever we're doing.
And I feel like it helps imbue _ _ _ _ the track with a little bit of sonic depth.
So that we get a little bit of clarity between whatever MIDI elements we may be doing and some analog.
_ Then obviously we've got another room where _ _ I'll record, _ you know, guitars or _ one of my favorites is right here.
Actually I keep this in here with me because I love it.
It's a 65 amps.
_ _ This thing here, the Tupelo model is one of my favorites.
It's just got a great tone.
I'm secretly a blues guy and that really helps. _ _
And then in here, _ _ _ you know, I've got some more amps lying around.
This is an old Fender Bassman, a Supro from 1960. _
_ [Em] The Tiny Terror, a little orange amp.
That's always fun.
And this is a great room for sort of putting in, you know, a handful of musicians if we need.
You know, we've got the Hear systems all set up so everybody can have their own mix.
_ You know, it's a good little creative space.
Then going next door we've got another workstation. _
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This is Alex and Joey.
Say hello to the people.
Hello, I'm Joey.
So there we go.
We've got another _ workstation here.
So it's all a mirror setup with what's on the main rig over there.
And then I've got a rig at home that I'll write with.
And so sometimes the three rigs will kind of [N] incorporate. _ _ _ _ _ _
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