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
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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

09/03/2010 - Week 8nnnnnz!

16/03/2010 - Week 9eeeenz!

Today, we weren't in the studios as other people were using them
So instead, we used the 2 sessions as rehersal and writing time

It worked out well as we got a few things practised nicely and worked out properly

Not much else to write about really...

Peace out!
Stevie.D
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22/02/2010 - Week 7eeeeenz

For this weeks session, we worked on Kriz's songs

He decided to get the rhythm guitar tracks done to 2 of his songs and a couple of lead lines as well
For the guitar, he had the usual set up of the Marshall head and cab with the DI box from the head and SM57 on the cab positioned just off center of the top left speaker as we found that speaker gives the best sound off. Well, the top 2 speakers give off the best tone

No drums or bass were done this week

Your mind tells you that you lost your confidence...
Stevie.D
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