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17/11/2021 For my piece, I have decided to work alongside Caitlin Cregg to record an acoustic version of my original song, “Phone Call”. The instrument I will be manipulating, is the acoustic guitar. I also aim to record piano to add depth to the piece. I have attached a clip of the original version that I will be recreating below. For one version, IContinue reading “Recording and Mixing – Planning”

Throughout the course of this blog, I will be reporting on the processes I utilized in order to create a studio recording of my original song. For this assignment, I am required to create and record an original song using only multiple microphone techniques and subtractive EQ. I will be manipulating microphone positions, microphone placements and fader positions in order to create differingContinue reading “Recording and Mixing – Introduction”

By Sarah Cropper – 24000591 Introduction A and R, or Artist and Repertoire, is the way in which officials of commercial recording companies selectperformers and supervise the production of their recordings, Wikipedia . Throughout the course of this report I will act as an A and R agent and will be discussing the new, unsigned talents emerging from the varied genresContinue reading “New Emerging Talents”

16/12/19 – For today, I recorded the sound of the monsters hands and the blood trickling in the bathtub as well as various sounds made by the main male character . In order to mimic the monsters hands, I used a bunch of celery and , similarly to the lettuce, I twisted it excessively butContinue reading “Last Day of Recording Sound Dub”

15/12/19 – Today I aimed to record the following; Synths for background music, a bannister creak, creaking floorboards and a wooden box opening. For the synths I used a midi keyboard on logic pro and used a pre set with a lot of arpeggio and played a simple riff on the low C bass notes.Continue reading “Fifth Day of Recording Sound Dub”

03/12/19 – Today, we planned on recording the hand hitting the shower door as well as the breaths of the characters. To recreate the breaths, we simply breathed along with the visual in order to get the right timings. In order to create the sound of the main character hitting the shower door, I recordedContinue reading “Fourth Day of Recording Sound Dub”

23/11/19 – The aim for today was to record the sounds for the firework the drums for the backing track. In order to replicate the firework, I used a inflated balloon and pinched the neck whilst pulling the sides horizontally away from one another. This created a high pitched, screech like sound thus creating theContinue reading “Third Day of Recording Sound Dub”

21/11/19 – For the dialog recording we had to record an interview with a music artist, asking them questions whilst focusing on sound as well as picture quality. This involved checking levels on mics and making sure that they were positioned correctly with the aim of creating a clean and high quality sound. For thisContinue reading “First Day of Recording Dialogue Recording”

07/11/19 – I began the second day of recording my audio today. However, due to the weather, we were limited in what we could record. This is because the high winds as well as rain would damage the diaphragm inside the mic.  Nonetheless, I recreated the background ambience of the scene by recording the sound ofContinue reading “Second Day of Sound Dub”

04/11/19 – Today  was  the  first  day  of  recording. We  aimed  to  recreate  the  following sounds; A fuse burning, a lighter strike and footsteps on sand. I started by shaking a fizzy drink vigorously. I then slowly removed the cap of the bottle and used the Sennheiser Mini Boom Mic to record the noise made. This is because this is a shotgun microphone meaning that itContinue reading “First Day of Recording Sound Dub”