L01 : Article

 

 

L04 : Audio Mixdowns

Audio Mixdowns

I have uploaded all three of my mixdowns to my soundcloud account where they are available for download.
Each track was mastered using Cubase 5 along with the occasional use of other DAW's such as Reason

The stems for the third mix down can be found via this link http://www.chaseandstatus.co.uk/remix_time/
Electronic Producers "Chase and Status" Held a remix competition for their track titled "Time" f.t. Delilah




Most of this work was done in the classroom but some of the work went on in my own studio as I find that its a better working environment when it comes to working with sound , below are images of my fairly basic studio setup.

If you have any problems listening to my mix downs please let me know via outlook and I will send you over either the MP3 exports or the WAV versions as soon as I get your'e message and if you could also post any feedback , negative points , suggestions or anything you think I can do to improve future recording please write in the comments section of this post

L04 :Audio Mixdowns Analysed

Mix down One

The first thing I did was balance all the levels and get

a grasp of how I wanted the track to sound.

Once I had done that I began creating groups

e.g. drums , vocals , instruments

I began taking out audio files that I felt were unnecessary

or that made the track feel "crowded" 

I added a few drums of my own to liven things up a bit

and using panning to give the track a bit of shuffle

Mix down Two

Mixdown Three

L01

Photo Evidence (In Studio)

Friday, 14 June 2013

Recording Portfolio

Thursday, 6 June 2013

First Recording Session

Here are two examples from the first recording session that I did , I am not happy with the quality of them and am re-recording them using equipment that I am far more familiar with in my home studio.

The microphone that I am going to use in my record session is a "Blue - Yeti" Mic , its commonly found in home studio and is one of the most affordable professional microphones on the market.

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Indoor and Outdoor Recording Upload

L01 : Reasearch for Assigment

Research for Audio Production Assignment The assignment has to be in the style of a magazine article so it’s important that I gather examples from trade magazines such as “sound on sound”.

Sound on sound is one of the more recognised and popular magazines in the music industry but I won’t only be drawing examples from this magazine I’m also going to be looking at several other magazines such as live sound international.  

I need to create a magazine article based on audio environments, this is basically the place that you decide to record your audio and every different acoustic environment affects the sound differently. An environment with solid flat walls will let the sound bounce off the walls and around the room, but in a professional audio environment the walls are made out of sponge so that the sound waves are absorbed and there’s no unwanted sound in the final recording. Everywhere is an acoustic environment including outdoors, for example if you sit in a field and record a guitar your environment will have an effect on the way the guitar sounds.

L01 :

Effects and processing

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L01 : PRS Licensing

PRS Licensing Explained and Analysed for Recycling Video

“Production Music (or Library Music) is music specifically written for inclusion in audio and audio-visual productions, such as advertisements, broadcast programmes, film and video productions. Using production music is a convenient and cost-effective way of obtaining high quality music for synchronisation and dubbing into such productions”.

PRS are a non-profit organisation and their basically the middle man between artists and companies and business that are looking to use music. PRS are the people that write up the licenses for the music once both parties involved are happy with the conclusion.

In my recycling video I will be using a soundtrack that I have already produced myself and because I produced it myself I won’t need to go through PRS to gain permission because I hold all the rights to music that I create.

This is the piece of music I have created and want to use on my video.

http://soundcloud.com/trakscene/shaolin-killer-hq-free

If I hadn’t produced this music myself and wanted to use somebody else’s track then I would have to contact PRS explain to them . . .

-       What Piece of music I wanted to use

-       The Exact length of time that my video would contain the song

-        What exactly I wanted to use the audio for e.g. television adverts , internet advertising or product association or branding

For example if I wanted to use the song “Numbers In Action” By Wiley.

I would have to contact PRS via telephone or email explain to the that I’m making  a video about recycling and that I want to use a track that they have the power to license to me.

Once everything has been explained to them and they understand what I want and why I want it, the next thing that they have to do is speak to the artist in this case “Wiley” and ask him how much money he would want for somebody to use his song on a thirty minute recycling video.

We would have to negotiate a price and work out a licensing agreement and PRS would try and make it so the artist and I were both happy which means basically I’m not paying way too much and the artist isn’t getting paid way to little.

The price of using audio differs between the artist and how popular they are for example if I wanted to use music from a very influential pop stars music It would cost me a lot more money that it would for me to use music from a barely known rapper who makes music at home.

You can lots of different types of license from PRS and the license you get will depend on what you want the audio for. If you wanted a one off advert that would only be on TV once it would cost you a lot less that a advert that would be shown a thousand times because your using the music a lot less.

Different licenses cost different amounts of money which is why it’s important to explain to PRS exactly what you’re using the music for or you could find yourself with a quote for £20,000 for thirty seconds of a song in your college recycling video that only one classroom is going to see.

If somebody wanted to use a piece of my music in their recycling video then they would have to speak to me a negotiate a deal and because I own the song and everything to do with it I get to name the price and the terms and conditions that come with its use.

PRS take a percentage of any money given to an artist they do this so they can keep the organisation going and to be fair to them if they didn’t exist the artists wouldn’t be receiving any royalties at all so it’s a fair system.