March 2024

The last assignment for the advanced production class is creating a production from start to finish. This includes the 5 stages of producing: My professor, Justin, assigned me to be the pro-tools operator for another students capstone. The goal for this was to ensure that everything was set to record, enabling recording groups, checking levels,…

Today I did something that I’m not used to and haven’t done in a while. For my production private lessons at Humber, my professor Tom encouraged me to experiment emulating the drum sound of one of my favourite recordings. I decided to record a cover of “I Don’t Trust Myself with Loving You”. Tom suggested…

Today was a great day spent on building percussion for one of the songs for my DS project. I met with my professor to get some additional perspective on what needed to be added to the bed track for “My Life”. He suggested that I edit the timing of the piano to match the synth…

As mentioned in my previous post, today I finished composing the music for the video game assignment. The last level I needed to compose music for was the halloween layer. I noticed in a few reference tracks that there was big tubular bells present with a slow haunting melody in the glockenspiel. I decided to…

Today, I reopened the assignment I needed to do for my film scoring class for Humber. The task of the assignment was to compose interactive music for a Halloween themed video game called “Dino Jump”. I began by re-listening to my sound design that I created last week. After being satisfied with the sound design…

Today, it was time to finish the writing for “Take Me Back”, the song I started with LJ last week! For this song, we had already written the chorus last time, so we needed two verses and a bridge. In gospel music, the bridge is also very important, so we decided to start there. The…

Recently, I have been working on some editing for my fourth year recording project at Humber. Today, I learned a new tip thanks to my good friend Brandon! At the last mixing session I had for school, the engineer suggested that I spend some time fixing the timing of the guitars and piano in one…