Archive for the 'Production and Recording for Musicians' Category

Task 05 - Full Production

May 19th, 2008

Ok this was my final task for this module and the idea was to make a full production of a recording, using as many FX and plug-ins as desired. I used a song recorded by Danny Allen which I recorded with Alison Quinn. Of course we both did our own individual productions of this record […]

Task 4 - Demo Recording

May 18th, 2008

For this recording I chose to use clarinet, saxophone  and full drum kit. The recording I felt had to be as clean as possible as it was meant to be a basic demo without too much treatment to show miking techniques. 
The Rooms:
The rooms that we recorded in were not acoustically brilliant. It had some acoustic […]

Task 3 - Stereo Mic Techniques

May 17th, 2008

This task was all about experimenting with different stereo miking techniques used on three different instruments and analysing the results. I recorded a total of nine different recordings using three of the same techniques on each of the three instruments. The instruments I recorded were Saxophone, Clarinet and Piano.
   My reasons for choosing these instruments were […]

Task 1 - Editing

May 17th, 2008

For this particular task I was assigned to show my competency at editing audio in Logic. We were given a track by the Chemical Brothers entitled ‘In Dust We Trust’. I was given a list of instructions and exact bars at where to chop the audio, and order them sequentially. The instructions had to be […]