Monday 18th January

Monday 18^th January

Midi Comp

Due to the change of plan for my FMP I used today’s studio sessions to go in the midi suite and finish one of my composition. I already had an idea of the kind of song that I wanted to compose; with some help from Stevie I managed to finish off the composition by the end of the day.

I already had a few ideas of the instruments I could have recorded on it. I decided that rather than taking the midi parts away from the composition, and replacing them with recorded instruments, I would rather add something else to the piece that wasn’t there in the midi composition.

I chose to have a live acoustic guitar recorded on the track; I selected a guitarist from our studio group called Dan Twining, as he could play a wide range of styles, and he was able to compose a guitar section, with the ideas I had given him. This was very helpful, as I don’t play guitar.

In order to let the guitarist get familiar with the song I supplied him with a bounced .mp3, and set a date for recording.

This gave me time to research the best ways record acoustic guitar and think about my microphone selection and recording techniques and to do any over preparation that was needed.