Friday, April 15, 2011
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Where's the most embarrassing place your cell phone has ever gone off?
Errrm, either during a disciplinary at work or during sex. "Hey man, what you upto?" "GO WAY BUSY"
Friday, June 11, 2010
FMP-4 A Casting Eye Over My Project...
Over the course of my project, there have been a few things go well and a few things go extremely badly. There were many things I would of changed about it which I will go into more detail about during this blog.
Until the last 2 months of the year, we had an absolutely useless technician called Alan. Everytime there was a problem with any equipment and we needed some help in getting it working, he didn't help as he didn't know how to
There were problems with microphones where over a couple of weeks there were a few that didn't work and at one point, one or two went missing which meant we were short on equipment.
The Mac's were one of the other problems. For a full session the mac's weren't working as they needed completely re-imaging and got completely wiped off which meant we lost one of our projects that we had recorded the previous week.
It wasn't just the college equipment we had problems with, we had problems with our own stuff as well.
Everytime Kriztian brought in his head and cabinet, there seemed to be a problem with the clean channel on the amp meaning we couldn't do any clean recordings. As well as that, we didn't always use the compressor so the tone was a bit poor at times.
The drums in the studio were just awful. They must not have been re-skinned in about 8 years by the sound coming from them which also meant that the drum sounds on the tracks we did manage to record drums on sounded absolutely rubbish, but due to not being able to bring in our own drummers kit, this was the only option we had.
To be honest, I also don't think we had enough recording time, especially for the amount of people there are in the groups as it was basically 90 minutes per week to record music for 4 people which turned out to be near impossible so both me and Jon ended up recording 2 of our tracks each at home.
All in all, there was alot I would of changed about the project but unfortunately this couldn't happen
Until the last 2 months of the year, we had an absolutely useless technician called Alan. Everytime there was a problem with any equipment and we needed some help in getting it working, he didn't help as he didn't know how to
There were problems with microphones where over a couple of weeks there were a few that didn't work and at one point, one or two went missing which meant we were short on equipment.
The Mac's were one of the other problems. For a full session the mac's weren't working as they needed completely re-imaging and got completely wiped off which meant we lost one of our projects that we had recorded the previous week.
It wasn't just the college equipment we had problems with, we had problems with our own stuff as well.
Everytime Kriztian brought in his head and cabinet, there seemed to be a problem with the clean channel on the amp meaning we couldn't do any clean recordings. As well as that, we didn't always use the compressor so the tone was a bit poor at times.
The drums in the studio were just awful. They must not have been re-skinned in about 8 years by the sound coming from them which also meant that the drum sounds on the tracks we did manage to record drums on sounded absolutely rubbish, but due to not being able to bring in our own drummers kit, this was the only option we had.
To be honest, I also don't think we had enough recording time, especially for the amount of people there are in the groups as it was basically 90 minutes per week to record music for 4 people which turned out to be near impossible so both me and Jon ended up recording 2 of our tracks each at home.
All in all, there was alot I would of changed about the project but unfortunately this couldn't happen
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Album Inspiration Covers
A few of the album covers I have chosen to use as inspiration for my FMP project are:
Iron Maiden - Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son
Iron Maiden - Powerslave
Iron Maiden - A Matter Of Life And Death
Iron Maiden - Killers
Annihilator - Set The World On Fire
KISS - Destroyer
Yngwie Malmsteen - Trilogy
Manowar - Hail To England!
How my EP cover will look any like this is beyond me but... It'll do!
Here they are...
ENJOY!
Iron Maiden - Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son
Iron Maiden - Powerslave
Iron Maiden - A Matter Of Life And Death
Iron Maiden - Killers
Annihilator - Set The World On Fire
KISS - Destroyer
Yngwie Malmsteen - Trilogy
Manowar - Hail To England!
How my EP cover will look any like this is beyond me but... It'll do!
Here they are...
ENJOY!
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
28/03/2010 - Week 11eeeeeeeez! Final Recording Session
This week we decided to do an acoustic cut of one of our songs
The song we chose was one we have already fully recorded for the project called "We Reign"
Dan plugged in the midi keyboard and got a piano line layed down as the rhythm then added a few more layers over the top to add more to the mix
We were going to record acoustic guitar but the acoustic guitar in the college was completely knackered. As in:
dead strings (about 3 years old)
half hanging pickguard
intonation completely out
major fret buzz all along the neck
We asked for an allen key to sort out the truss rod on the acoustic but the technicians wouldn't give us one.
So yeah, we got on with the piano lines and decided we are going to record more guitar/bass work at home for mixing in college when the production process begins. Leah said this is perfectly acceptable as we can make decent enough projects at home and bring in the audio files for final mixing into logic if needs be.
For the drums, we have a few tracks already done on real drums and will be using midi drums for the other tracks. But, we will be putting the midi drums into a program called "EZDrummer Drumkit From Hell" which is a virtual drum machine used by the likes of Meshuggah and many other bands when triggering drums.
I will be posting another blog before Thursday's deadline day with a few samples of songs/takes and screenshots/pictures of setups and takes on Logic and Reaper (Reaper being the Workstation me and Jon use at home for recording songs)
Would you notice if I missed a day or 2?...
Stevie.D
x
The song we chose was one we have already fully recorded for the project called "We Reign"
Dan plugged in the midi keyboard and got a piano line layed down as the rhythm then added a few more layers over the top to add more to the mix
We were going to record acoustic guitar but the acoustic guitar in the college was completely knackered. As in:
dead strings (about 3 years old)
half hanging pickguard
intonation completely out
major fret buzz all along the neck
We asked for an allen key to sort out the truss rod on the acoustic but the technicians wouldn't give us one.
So yeah, we got on with the piano lines and decided we are going to record more guitar/bass work at home for mixing in college when the production process begins. Leah said this is perfectly acceptable as we can make decent enough projects at home and bring in the audio files for final mixing into logic if needs be.
For the drums, we have a few tracks already done on real drums and will be using midi drums for the other tracks. But, we will be putting the midi drums into a program called "EZDrummer Drumkit From Hell" which is a virtual drum machine used by the likes of Meshuggah and many other bands when triggering drums.
I will be posting another blog before Thursday's deadline day with a few samples of songs/takes and screenshots/pictures of setups and takes on Logic and Reaper (Reaper being the Workstation me and Jon use at home for recording songs)
Would you notice if I missed a day or 2?...
Stevie.D
x
Thursday, March 25, 2010
21/03/2010 - Week 10nnnnnz!
This weeks recording session was cancelled due to performances being on that we had to play in.
Hopefully next week we'll get some bass work done as we have none done so far
Hopefully next week we'll get some bass work done as we have none done so far
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
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