hi there guys this is my 12 week of blogging madness and this week we were EQing and mixing down our track. which consisted of of balancing frequencies and compressing sounds but before any of that we tided up the track by taking out all of the unnecessary sounds i.e. like me putting my lovely cuppa tea down on the organ say or me praising my self up at the end of the track. we soon tidyed up the track and added the effects and eventually came to mixing our second masterpiece of work down. one of the main effects we played and installed into the piece was reverb a special effect that most musical artists would have used and still do use to make their voices be heard in a room when Elvis started doing this they had to build chambers that so that sound could bounce around the walls to create the reverb this carried on in till the early seventy's where after, this way of reaveb life musicians started to create and discover other ways to create their reverb nowadays we use state of the art technology to create this. i must say EQing is not the most exciting part of creating and performing music but must be done to get the best sound quality personally i think its quite dull as there's allot to learn about the topic which puts me off theres alot science involved and its alot to take in but all in all i didn't mind just takes time and understanding.
Heres the finished song
Wednesday 1 December 2010
60's recording
60s recording styles
My 60s Research
I went through the net and there wasn't much about 60s recording techniques or styles but i did find this info that i found was quite interesting so give it a read.
60s Music
In the 60s rock'n'roll became pop. Pop music changed with the rest of society. At the beginning of the sixties, it seemed that pop music might become just another form of family entertainment, but by the end of the sixties, it was a way of life.
Before the Beatles
Music at the beginning of the 60s was a sanitised commercial version of mid fifties American rock'n'roll. By then, Billy Haley was out of the picture and Elvis was as much a movie star as a rock'n'roll singer.
In Britain, the melodic sounds of Cliff Richard and Adam Faith competed with the Everly Brothers from the US for the top spot in the music charts. There were young stars like Helen Shapiro, who started her career with four top 3 hits. The favourite dance, the Twist, was enjoyed by the middle aged as well as the young. The rebellious origins of rock'n'roll seemed to be no more than a passing fad. Pop music still played on the juke boxes in the coffee bars of the early 60s. However, many teenagers looked to jazz as a form of rebellion.
Pretty simple. Mostly hand-made boards (usually with Daven pots and 3" Bakalite knobs), Ampex 350's, Stephens, and Scully 280 tape decks, RCA ribbons, Neumann condensers, and EV dynamics, mostly room reverb, or a live chamber - not much else. Playback speakers were either Altecs or UREI, amps were usually McIntosh MC60's, or the old Altec 100 watters.
At least that's how it was in Los Angeles in the early 60's.
My 60s Research
I went through the net and there wasn't much about 60s recording techniques or styles but i did find this info that i found was quite interesting so give it a read.
60s Music
In the 60s rock'n'roll became pop. Pop music changed with the rest of society. At the beginning of the sixties, it seemed that pop music might become just another form of family entertainment, but by the end of the sixties, it was a way of life.
Before the Beatles
Music at the beginning of the 60s was a sanitised commercial version of mid fifties American rock'n'roll. By then, Billy Haley was out of the picture and Elvis was as much a movie star as a rock'n'roll singer.
In Britain, the melodic sounds of Cliff Richard and Adam Faith competed with the Everly Brothers from the US for the top spot in the music charts. There were young stars like Helen Shapiro, who started her career with four top 3 hits. The favourite dance, the Twist, was enjoyed by the middle aged as well as the young. The rebellious origins of rock'n'roll seemed to be no more than a passing fad. Pop music still played on the juke boxes in the coffee bars of the early 60s. However, many teenagers looked to jazz as a form of rebellion.
Pretty simple. Mostly hand-made boards (usually with Daven pots and 3" Bakalite knobs), Ampex 350's, Stephens, and Scully 280 tape decks, RCA ribbons, Neumann condensers, and EV dynamics, mostly room reverb, or a live chamber - not much else. Playback speakers were either Altecs or UREI, amps were usually McIntosh MC60's, or the old Altec 100 watters.
At least that's how it was in Los Angeles in the early 60's.
Tuesday 30 November 2010
Motorhead Gig
As part of my silver arts award i was to go to a consert and remeber what happend on the night. well it was cold for a start and the gig was being held at the cambridge corn excange. the band i was to see was "Motorhead" which in my opinion was very good and i throughly enjoyed the experience. i only saw one of the two support bands and forgot what the other one of them was called but the other was named micheal monroe it was awesome the way the lead singer was stoned out of his mind and he had litrilly climbed his way to my box which was located the second one from the front of the excange. then soon after motorhead took to the stage and rocked out compleatly people at the front were moshing so hard you couldn't see the guy who was standing there originally stuck in the middle of it all lol it was a fantastic night and the trip home took an hour there and back to where i live nr sudbury. i would recommend anyone who is madly passionate about heavey metal to take the pilgrimage and see them every year because they are absolutely mind blowing. so theres my story also as part of the project i was to collect some evidance of the gig so i bring back the stuff i.e. (the tickets) and you should see me holding them i posted it on the blog for u guys to see. i hope ive inspired u to go and see them and i hoped you've enjoyed my story thanks fred plz leave comments as that would be superb : )
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