A key component in support of the planning development and preparation for my major project this trimester was to present this project to my lecturer and peers to glean feedback on the direction and methodologies being deployed in a quest to fine tune the plan and rectify any shortcomings. This pitch was in the form … Continue reading Project Pitch Reflection
Just completed an interesting task for the first time; mixing a song provided to me with a one hour time constraint applied. I gotta' say, this was to be the quickest hour of my life! The learning outcomes were to practice moving quickly, identify shortfalls in your workflow / DAW skills and most importantly hone … Continue reading Commit to it!
So whats been doin' these past months? Have a look and listen to some of the projects I have been working on recently and feel free to leave your feedback in the comments section below! P.S. Listen with decent headphones or on good monitors for full effect... 'Zed Leppelin' 6 Track Demo Zed Leppelin are … Continue reading The Product of the Passion…
The third song we were to mix was not actually one we had planned on recording ,but when the band wanted to begin with it as it was one that would get Tony's voice warmed up for the harder vocals, we agreed. Unexpectedly, it was one that the band played really well and had good … Continue reading Mixing ‘Zed Leppelin’: What Is And What Should Never Be
With the mix of our first track Immigrant Song put to bed, it was time to get back into the studio and smash out number two of the three we would initially deliver. We had really received a boost from the feedback and sense of accomplishment and were eager to recreate it on Good Times … Continue reading Mixing ‘Zed Leppelin’: Good Times Bad Times
Originally we had planned to do 4 tracks for this project but at the bands request we ended up recording 6 with them. This was fine but did stretch our production planning to the limit but thanks to leaving quite an amount of contingency time spare, we were able to still deliver 3 tracks fully … Continue reading Mixing ‘Zed Leppelin’: Immigrant Song
"And the music was good and the music was loud, and the singer turned and he said to the crowd...Let there be Rock"!!! (ACDC - Let there be Rock). Blood Sweat and Beers! Aussie Pub Rock is a genre that reveled in the rebellious times of Australian society in the 70's and 80's capitulating in … Continue reading Music Genre Analysis: Aussie Pub Rock – (1970 – 1990)
Our world over the past 50 years has experienced a meteoric increase in consumption. Why? We are still the same species that at our core, require the same resources to survive as our ancestors did thousands of years ago. A mystery indeed! The first definition describes the well-being and protection of rights by consumer groups … Continue reading Consumerism: How much is enough?
The 'Shepard Tone' named after psychologist and cognitive scientist Roger Shepard, is an auditory illusion involving a sound that appears to ascend (or descend), in pitch without actually leaving its preset range. Also an artist, here are some of Roger Shepard's more famous (and disturbing), sketches of visual illusions. The shepard tone has been used … Continue reading Production Techniques: Shepard Tone
Parallel compression is one of the oldest and most widely used mixing techniques in the history of recorded music. It dates back to 1965 when Dolby A noise reduction engineers included in the system's internal circuitry parallel buses with one containing heavy compression. The basic idea of parallel processing is to duplicate the track you … Continue reading Production Techniques: Parallel Compression
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