Once we had recorded the three groups we had to mix two songs of the ones we had recorded, one had to be to the artists specifications and the other had to be creatively mixed.
I choose to do my groups first and last recordings. The first recording (the singer and the acoustic guitar) was to be my mix to the artists specifications, they simply wanted a little bit of reverb on the vocals and for the volume to fade out at the end. The reverb they requested was to be moderately done and to make them sound like they were in a room similar to the genre of the song so for example a church that was really echoy would not have been appropriate so instead I selected a smallish sounding room that gave a little reverb, the reverb effect basically replays the original signal until it is told to stop, you can set the threshold, length, depth of the effect. The threshold is the level at which the effect starts to work. The length is how long the reverb lasts. the depth is how much signal is made to reverb. It is designed make signals sound like they haven't been recorded in a studio. For the fade out at the end I just had to automate the volume so it decreased at the end slowly.
For my creative mix I selected my groups last recording of a vocalist, an acoustic and a bass guitar. To start I raised the volume of the vocals so you could hear them over the other instruments I then added in some volume automation at certain points to create an effect. For the bass I increased to frequency around 100Hz to make it sound extra bassy, and then I added a distortion to it, the distortion effect simply distorts the signal as it comes through by modulating it. I left the acoustic guitar relatively un-changed only a bit of panning left and right and some volume automation.
Sunday, 8 March 2015
Monday, 2 March 2015
recording sessions
me and my group of three others had to set up and record live sessions with actual artists for part of our music assingnment, we had to do three intotal, so here is a short sumnmery of what happened.
when we got to the studio we met the artists which consisted of a guitar and a vocalist.
the first thing we did was record a song with a backing track with the backing track coming through the headphones on channel 23-24, this went well although the backing track was being played through the studio monitors and then being picked up by the studio mic (oppps)
the next track we did was the vocalist with the guitar, we set up the blumein configuration of two SM57's (dynamics) however because we had used dynamic microphones we had to turn the gain up quite high so we could hear it and we lost some of the frequencies if we had used a condenser we could have recorded the full frequency range.
for our second recording we swapped duties so me and one other (who set up the mics last time) went in to the control room to do that to let the others set up the mics. this band was a full rock metal band with one vocalist, a bass/backing singer, a lead guitar and a full drum kit, because this band was so big and needed 12 individual channels for all the mics we decided to group all the drums to two groups and every thing else to another, this meant having to use the patch bay. during the first recording we realized that the lead vocal and the backing vocal microphones were picking up sound from the other instruments. to solve this we asked them to continue playing but with out the vocals which we recorded and added in later.
the final group was a duo with a vocalist, acoustic guitar and a bass guitar, because the bass guitar and the acoustic guitar were played by the same person we had to record them separately, so to start we recorded the vocals and the acoustic guitar with a click track so they could keep in time, then we plugged the bass guitar in to the direct input on the mixing desk and recorded it directly from there so the basest could listen to what we had already recorded to help him keep in time.
when we got to the studio we met the artists which consisted of a guitar and a vocalist.
the first thing we did was record a song with a backing track with the backing track coming through the headphones on channel 23-24, this went well although the backing track was being played through the studio monitors and then being picked up by the studio mic (oppps)
the next track we did was the vocalist with the guitar, we set up the blumein configuration of two SM57's (dynamics) however because we had used dynamic microphones we had to turn the gain up quite high so we could hear it and we lost some of the frequencies if we had used a condenser we could have recorded the full frequency range.
for our second recording we swapped duties so me and one other (who set up the mics last time) went in to the control room to do that to let the others set up the mics. this band was a full rock metal band with one vocalist, a bass/backing singer, a lead guitar and a full drum kit, because this band was so big and needed 12 individual channels for all the mics we decided to group all the drums to two groups and every thing else to another, this meant having to use the patch bay. during the first recording we realized that the lead vocal and the backing vocal microphones were picking up sound from the other instruments. to solve this we asked them to continue playing but with out the vocals which we recorded and added in later.
the final group was a duo with a vocalist, acoustic guitar and a bass guitar, because the bass guitar and the acoustic guitar were played by the same person we had to record them separately, so to start we recorded the vocals and the acoustic guitar with a click track so they could keep in time, then we plugged the bass guitar in to the direct input on the mixing desk and recorded it directly from there so the basest could listen to what we had already recorded to help him keep in time.
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