March 22nd

March 22^nd

Todays studio session didn’t take place due to performance.

March 15th

March 15^th

Today I used the editing suite, because all of the over studios were occupied. My intentions for today were to record some basic percussion for my 2^nd FMP. I chose to record a Bongo, Wood block and a Tambourine. I already had midi parts of each of these instruments laid out on my composition already, but I thought it would be a good idea to have each of these played in as live instruments rather than samples. To record the bongo I used the SM57 placed quite closely to the skin of the drum. I chose to use the SM57, as I wasn’t after too much detail in the sound, I wanted to capture just the effect of two consecutive rhythmic hits, rather then the noises and ambience created by the bongos.

For the Tambourine and Wood Block, I used the c1000, as this microphone is a condenser, so therefore more sensitive. Which is what I required for these to instruments, as I wanted to pick up all the details and accents occurred when playing each of these. For both of these the microphone placement was quite similar, I set the microphone up in one corner and played the each of the instruments about half a metre away away.

March 8th

March 8^th

Absent

March 1st

March 1^st

In today’s studio session we came across a problem, with Doms FMP logic file. Each time he loaded it, it went out of time, we tried alternatives logic files of the same project, but we still had the same problem. After a while Stevie figured the problem out and fixed it for us. After this Dom wanted to record some sounds of people clapping so that he could replace a sampled clap within his project with a live one. For the recording we used an AKG 414 and each took turns clapping.

We also shared the studio this week, so for the second half of the session, me, Ruben and Dom were in the editing suit. As Ruben and Dom had nothing to do, I used this opportunity to finish of composing one of my projects for my FMP.

February 8th

February 8^th

Arranged guitar in preparation for mixing

In today’s studio session, I was the arranging the guitar that I had recorded the previous week. I started off by listening to what I had, and then I began to cut out the parts that were out of tune, and didn’t suit the composition. Once I had finished this process I arranged the guitar, alongside the verses and choruses. So that it was ready for the mixing process.