Production Schedule Posted Separately
Album Concept
In Discussions About The Album Concept I Believe We Took The Obvious Route, By Imploring The Assets That We Had Most Readily Available. A Female A Male And Competent Musicians. On The Base Level The Idea Of A Natural Transition In A Relationship From Inception To Demise Was Thrown Out There. I Personally Felt That This Could Be Solid Foundation For Introspective Arrangements To Blossom. Then To Make It Apply To A Larger Range I Pitched The Idea Of MUSIC THE INTERNATIONAL LANGUAGE OF LOVE.
This Would Be A Journey Of Two Individual From Extremely Different Backgrounds But, With Similar Circumstances. They Meet And Take Part In Quite The Courtship Process. Throughout Their Journey We Narrate Entire Event With Interviews (Or Brief Monologues) From Various Individuals Speaking In Multiple Languages. Although, Many Wouldn't Initially Understand The Dialect They Would Be Able To Grasp A Healthy Dose Of What's Going By Tuning In To The Music Its Self. Although, After Listening To Your Directions In Class I Feel That Would Could Still Find A Way To Dig Deeper. Perhaps, By Going Into Their Backgrounds Further Could Help To Illuminate Specific Points Of Correlation And Give A Better Understanding.
Boy Tells Girl Leave Her Current Situation And Gives A Glimpse Into What Her Life Could Possibly Be Like If She Just Explores The Opportunity Placed In Front Of Her.
Once Again When The Inhabitants Set In It Gets A Harder To Draw Clear Define Lines Between What’s Right A Wrong. So In A Moment Of Weakness She Allows Things To Get Slightly Out Of Hand And Confuse A Situation She Believed She Had Under Control.
He Finally Realizes Why He’s Experienced All The Hassle In Vying For Her Attention, When Other Men Are Entered In The Competition. Still Vigalent In His Efforts He Continues To Pursue Although, His Passion Is Visible Waning.
From The Gate I Feel We've Been Pretty Much On Par With Our Projected Production Schedule. Having Had The Pleasure To See These Guys Work In Studio Session Before I Never Really Doubted Our Ability As A Whole To Stay Focused And Obtain (At The Bare Minimum) The Required Number Of Compositions. I Believe Out Of Our Three Previous Studio Sessions (For This Semester), We Were On Required To Actually Set Up Our Mics And Room Treatment Arrangements One Time. Due To The Fact That Previous Group Was also Recording Drums This Helped Our Work Flow Roll Much Quicker. Each Studio Session Pretty Much Followed Suit.
Mic Set Up
Kick In D112
Kick Out RE 20
Snares E 22’s
Toms 421
H Hats 4050’s
OHL & OHR Royer 122’s
On The First Lab We Recorded Shaun And Shannon Tunes. Shauns' Song Was Recorded Playing Through With A Scratch Guitar And Click Track. Then Shannon Was Recorded To Just A Click Track, That We Would Later Chop Up Loops From. In The Recording Of These To Tracks I Noticed Little To No Difference In The Dynamics And Feel Of The Music From A Production Stand Point.
Mic Set Up
Kick In D112
Kick Out RE 20
Snares E 22’s
Toms 421
OHL & OHR 4050’s
For Our Next Lab We Were Slightly More Ambitious In Our Work Load Knocking Out My Two Songs And One Of Nicks. Once Again We Had Chris Hansen Drumming For The Session And He Appeared Extremely Well Rehearsed. This Helped Us Knock Out More Work Than We Had Planned Based On Our Productions Schedule. Halfway Through The Session Lucas Took Over The Helms At The Drum Kit Finishing Up The Last Song Of The Day. I Notice That He Found It Easier (Or Just More Convenient) To Play Whole Songs Rather Than Small Excerpts For Loops.
Mic Set Up
Kick In D112
Kick Out RE 20
Snares E 22’s
Toms 421
OHL & OHR Royer 122’s
The Last Lab For Tracking Drums Was This Past Monday. In That Session We Recorded Shannons' Second Track And Josh's Composition. Once Again The Drums Had Been Played Through Versus Taking Orchestrated Loops.
Rehearsal Issues
Within The Aspects Of The Rehearsal Realm I Found No Real Issues. Both Tracks That I Composed (To Contribute To The Album) Went Along With The General Theme That We Had Discussed Prior To The Break. The Fact That We All Had Personal Recording Set Ups, Made It Easy To Compose Demo Versions Of Our Tunes And Find Ways To Incorporate Our Teammates. One Specific Instance Where I Found This Helpful Was When The Group Came Over To Work On Fuck U Lata, And Nick Explained How My Current Choice Of Key Combinations Made Little Sense Musically. So We Tracked The Drum In Minus The Keys And He Showed How Playing Something Slightly Different Could Give An Entirely Different Fell.
Another Point At Which I Saw Rehearsal As An Extreme Benefit Was In The Tracking Of The Drums The First Two Days. Because We Rehearsed Ahead Time In The Annex With Chris When It Came Time To Actually Record He Was Very Confident And Had Programmed Slight Deviations In The Form Of Fills That He Felt Could Improve The Song Rather Than Just A Repetitive Pattern.
Interpersonal Issues
I Feel As Though I Understand A Great Deal Of Things That Are Discussed In Class. My Only Real Issue Is Going Back And Forth Between What We Learn In Class, How I Adapt Those Principles At Home In Sonar And Then Correlating Between The Applications In Protools. In The Process I Often Get Frustrated Because I Feel As Though Its Often Things That I Would Consider Basic Knowledge.
A Few Of The Principles Discussed, Such As: Summing, Bussing And Routing Is All Things That I’ve Been Doing For Years I Just Never Knew How Explain To It Or What Call It. In Contras The New Information That We’ve Be Learning Lately Has Me Extremely Stoked. I’ve Always Thought That The 808 Drum Was Simply A Synthesizers, However With The New Tricks That Were Displayed In Class These Past Two Lectures I See How That Is Obtainable.
Note: I’ve Realized Through Years That I Pick Up Information, More From Observation Then Actual Notation. Sometimes I Feel I Get Lost Trying To Write Down Every Thing That’s Going Or Being Displayed And Miss The Crucial Pieces Of Info. But, I Feel The Handouts Aid In Mediating The Gap.
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