Reflection With any creative project it is important to reflect on the processes, the outcomes, how you met your set goals but most importantly what you learnt and what you would improve next time. Doing this becomes a great tool and really helps you plan and set out your next project by learning from your strong points and even your weak points. During this reflection, … Continue reading Reinterpretation of a Pop Song. (Reflection)
The mixing stage Once I went through all the audio and made myself a checklist of thing to fix/look at during the mixing stage and finished repairing Bec’s vocal. Its time to mix , so let me go through how I approached the mixing stage. Balance and cleaning up The first thing I do is listen to the song a few times and take notes on … Continue reading Reinterpretation of a Pop Song. (Mixing)
What need’s to be fixed? After going through a checklist, it’s time to get started on repairing some unwanted mistakes. First up I’m going to work on the vocals. As I said in my last blog, the vocal is a little off with the timing of the song and is out of key a fair bit. It also lacks the energy the song needs in some … Continue reading Reinterpretation of a Pop Song. (Audio Correction)
Organizing an asset list. After Finally finishing some other projects, John and I stepped into the Post – Production for a big 8-hour session. We really wanted to organize our audio assets list before things got a little out of hand. We really needed to work out what sounds we needed and where we planned to do them. We sat down and fill in a … Continue reading The Conjuring 2 – Sound Replacement (Getting ready and getting started on ADR)
With project its always best to plan ahead and work out all the little in’s and out’s of a project. Because we are getting to the business end of our course it’s definitely time to start thinking about budgets and costs. We all now these kinds of projects aren’t cheap!. You got to think about the cost of studio hire, actors, Equipment, engineers and so much more. … Continue reading The Conjuring 2 – Sound Replacement (Budget)
After getting all of the recordings down for our cover of “popular”. I decided to have a listen to look for any areas I might have trouble with later on during the mixing stage. Doing this lets you plan ahead and gives you time to look into ways you might fix any little problems. After listening to it a few times, I noticed it wasn’t … Continue reading Reinterpretation of a Pop Song. (Check List/Mixing)
After having a successful session recording drums and bass in only a 4 hour session. It was time to record the guitar and vocals. Once again I limited myself to a 4 hour. I did this because I felt like pushing myself. I really wanted to limit myself to only doing one session on each instrument. I only decided to do this because the whole … Continue reading Reinterpretation of a Pop Song. (Recording Guitar/Vocals)
After having a quality jam and finally working out the song and fixing up any loose ends. It was time to head into the studio. I planned to record drums and bass in the first session. I wanted to do this because the fact we only just made the song the night before. I felt it would be easier for Linda to play along with … Continue reading Reinterpretation of a Pop Song. (Recording Drums/Bass)
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