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Patrick Rives (The Odyssey)

About Me

Patrick Rives - I am a producer, musician, engineer and owner of The Odyssey Studio, a professional audio production and post-production studio in Athens, GA. I have worked as a session drummer, keyboard player and singer for more than ten years. I am currently the drummer and producer of Forthfading (myspace.com/forthfading), a power-pop/rock band in Athens. / The Odyssey Releases: / The Deep Field (in progress) / 11 to 3 (2002) / Dancing About Architecture (2000) / Phantasmagoria (1999) / Pulled From the Ashes (1998) / And Sometimes Why (1997)
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Member Since: 02/02/2005
Band Website: http://www.theodysseystudio.com
Band Members: Patrick Rives (releases under the name The Odyssey)
Influences: Peter Gabriel, Sting, Sarah McLachlan, Phil Collins, Jan Hammer, Loreena McKinnett, Tori Amos
Sounds Like: ... like no one else ...
Type of Label: Unsigned

My Blog

Wonderland (full band mix)

The full-band version of Wonderland is now up on MySpace.
Posted by on Tue, 09 Jun 2009 18:32:00 GMT

Helping out a friend

My friend, Sarah Tollerson, has a chance at winning $10k toward her tuition with a songwriting contest. If you have a free minute, try to help her out by voting for her. Here is what she posted: ...
Posted by on Tue, 12 May 2009 11:53:00 GMT

Mixing Primer - Drums part 2

While Im on drums, lets talk basic tracking. Before you even arrive at the studio, there are several things the drummer should do to make his kit sound great. Im not including practice-related skil...
Posted by on Mon, 27 Apr 2009 08:00:00 GMT

Mixing Primer, Drums

Let's talk about mixing a little more. Last time I described a mix as being a box with the top and bottom representing frequencies, the left and right sides representing panning, and the front and bac...
Posted by on Tue, 14 Apr 2009 11:56:00 GMT

Mixing Primer, Introduction

When you listen to music in your car or on your stereo or home theatre, you are participating in the final stage of a process called sound transduction. For instance, a CD player reads microscopic rid...
Posted by on Fri, 27 Mar 2009 19:42:00 GMT

1,001 ways to destroy your project

I get a lot of unsigned, self-funded artists and bands through here, and often they don't have a lot of recording experience beyond home-recording. If someone else is going to mix what I track, I will...
Posted by on Tue, 17 Mar 2009 23:28:00 GMT

Video of "Dark Place" remix

This is me tracking drums in my studio for the remix of "Dark Place." Check out this video: Dark Place (drum tracking)
Posted by on Fri, 09 Jan 2009 00:18:00 GMT

Wonderland

I so rarely write songs with lyrics, so I get very excited when I do. I have just posted Wonderland, a song inspired by a random photo of a couple of good friends. It's a rough draft of sorts - it's j...
Posted by on Mon, 15 Sep 2008 02:56:00 GMT

The Sea

I went to an island. I didn't know I was going until just before I went. It's these unexpected travels, where I never feel I know at all what is happening, that awaken in me some safari-adventurer nor...
Posted by on Sat, 26 Jul 2008 22:45:00 GMT

An obvious swipe at heroism

... he and the moon sang like a knife through her ...... he took her by the hand, and by the heart ...... he took in her sighs like the deep breaths of a man just released from prison...... her tears ...
Posted by on Fri, 11 Apr 2008 20:28:00 GMT