MPA 408 Lab 02/22/10 Tracking Bass cont.

In lab, we zeroed in on finishing up all the necessary bass parts that we hadn't yet gotten too, and then retouched other tracks that were still in the looping phase. To my surprise Nick had already straightened out the issue that plagued the recording process last week by finding a more suitable loop for Loving You Always (the song with the clipping problems). All and all I found this session ran rather smooth. The only the only real problem that arose came in the form technological issues. First the system wouldn't allow for writing edits (so we discussed the various possibilities for getting around this aliment. We finally decided to save to the hard drive (of course transferring our work afterwards) at which point it allowed us to continue editing. In recording the bass in we followed the same technique as usual going through the Millinia, the only notable difference was that Nick brought in his foot pedal so he was able to augment the sound in some pretty crazy ways. For one of the songs we worked today I originally used an Arp synthesizer, however with his kit he was able to find a saw that pretty closely replicated the sound. Next lab we start guitar!!!