recording
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This morning was the day to record bed tracks for my Advanced Production capstone project! I arrived early to help setup the drums and the mics for the kit. We needed to plug the mics into a snake which was routed to a wall plug. The wall plug was linked to the studio console, which…
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Today, I had some final preparations to do for my capstone recording project tracking that was going to take place tomorrow. I needed to program a rough percussion track that Tudor and the band could play along to. For this, I decided to go into Logic’s drummer and created a demo percussion part. I used…
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Today, I picked up where I left off yesterday with my capstone project. There was a tight deadline to get these edits done, as my recording session at the school was scheduled for Thursday. I began by building the arrangement a bit, as the synths were all added on top of one chorus. I wanted…
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After an insightful conversation with a good friend, I woke up and was inspired to try to write a song. I was surprised because I didn’t really expect anything much to come out of it, but I ended up writing a full song in about 30 mins! As I began to write, each lyric seemed…
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Today, I was grateful to have another private lesson with Tom Ionescu. We discussed a few topics, specifically reviewing my D.S. mixes, as well as my drum cover of “I Don’t Trust Myself” by John Mayer. The main feedback Tom provided to me was that he was happy I tried a hybrid approach to drum…