Freddy reflecting on Noise Solution 2010 - 2011

Last session thoughts on how it's gone.

The team

Well done Freddy - It has been a pleasure working with you - best of luck with your future plans.

Simon - Noise Solution

80's track

A big hello to all my bloggers . Before starting my Arts Award I had been learning how to perform and play, I worked on  an 80s track called everybody wants to rule the world done by tears for fears. This was a practice track but im gonna post this track on the blog to show not only how far i've come but also to complete my four songs spanning 4 decades. Although this last song was not completed during the period I was doing the silver award it was done within the time I've been at Noise Solution and I'd like to be able to have the four decades represented - So I'm including it.

here it is

Week 33 - mixing Maggie

Tea - most important studio accessory!

Video of Freddy playing his composition

Because we've been doing our leadership part of the project we haven't had time to do much work on the music side of things this week we finally finished off Maggie. We balanced the levels of each instrument so they are all equal and then rendered the mix into one file. Here it is!



The rest of the session was spent putting some chords together, we carried on working on my peice - I've added some new chords and we also structured the song with verses and chorus parts - I've written them down.

Freddy reflecting on the Last year

week 31

Freddy banging out beats

hi there to all blog readers this week we've taken another look at the evidence checklist to make sure that every things been covered a majority of the project is finished and the leadership report has been wrote up and is now on the blog to read the project is nearly done all that is left to do is to finnish off the maggie may piece. today i have also looked at my rough draft piece of music and tried to come up with a way to carry on and create the piece even more which is driving me mad. Sometimes it can be difficult to create stuff but we have to carry on working on it to achieve.

Simon - making stuff work

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Lovely interview with Freddy showing us a rough sketch of his new peice of music he's written and talking about the impact his time with Noise Solution has had

Silver Arts Award leadership delivery report

Silver Arts Award leadership report

During my second stage of my silver arts award I had to teach somebody everything that I had learnt during the first part of my award which was to learn and cover all my targets and aims in music production, this covered studio set up to music editing and performance however to complete my silver arts award I had to pass the leadership stage of the course. Doing so I had to plan, choose and teach what I had learnt to someone who had not been educated in my profession.

My goal

My goal was to teach everything I knew about chord structure and learning a song and to get a mix down within four weeks and my view was that we managed to achieve most of that goal.

What I had to do for the leadership part of the course

My task for the leadership part of the course was to choose my student, which so happened to be my mother due to the fact that she had already undergone teaching from a previous piano teacher. she was keen to try a different way of learning which gave me the idea to show her what I know and that maybe it might help her understand music a lot more.

So i planned the weeks out for her by typing up a tuition plan and trying to cover the targets and goals following my custom made plan week by week setting time limits for each part of the sessions. The second part to the planning stage was to decide how long I would think I would need not to mention the student would need to educate and get everything across. I had decided to take the time for how long I could teach my topics which included introduction to chords and performing techniques so I thought four weeks would be an acceptable time phase to complete all the sessions in.

What went well with the sessions

Overall I thought that my teaching did get across and that we had managed to cover almost all of the set targets by arriving to the studio and cracking on with the teaching each week. Each week I would ask if there was anything my pupil struggled to understand or feel uncomfortable with which was good to know because if any problems had occurred in session they would have been solved with a solution of some kind. All in all I have enjoyed teaching my mother all of my set targets which included the basics of chord structure as this was a personal favourite of mine and still is. I like this because it  enables me to put together some awesome tunes and being able to just to get that across and understood and to see the progress my mother made is a memory i'll never forget.

What didn’t go well with the sessions

All in all there weren’t really any major problems but sometimes I felt that in some of the sessions I was beginning to worry that we wouldn’t cover most of the criteria’s in time and that occasionally time would over take us. Sometimes how I explained some of the easy topics would take awhile for my pupil to understand, which frustrated me from time to time but apart from that she did very well and everything was a success.

What would I do differently in the future

I think I would try and see if I could get more time than I had because I didn’t feel that I had enough time to teach in and it have would been nice to have recorded down the result as a record of achievement.

week 30 Interview with Simon

Interview with Simon my Tutor - As part of my Arts Award
the purpose of this interview was to find out more about musicians and discuss how they've succeeded in there music career as well as finding out whats available in the world we live in today i have also done another interview with another tutor who covered for my existing tutor while he was away.  I found out that to learn to begin a career in media and the musical arts is to start off in collage and work your way up and thats what i am going to do.

Here's a link to his bands website

http://www.tunng.co.uk/

And a video of his band

my interview with simon my tutor

my questions and reminders 

mums certificate 

week 29

hi there to all mad blog readers who also have a taste for music im here yet again to tell you what amazing stuff ive been getting up to this week.Well, firstly it was the last session of teaching my mother the piano today and shes come a long way since she first started going from only knowing piano notes to learning and understanding chords from majors to minors plus sharps over the course of 4 weeks my mother has undergone teaching from me learning chords and being able to perform her first song which was californiacation by the red hot chille peppers which after an hour of going over she nailed it. im so proud of of her for getting this far and that she achieved tremendously which made me feel great about the whole process of teaching her its been fun, educational and productive so a very good week indeed

Here's video of what Freddy managed to teach his mum in 4 hour long sessions over five weeks

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here's an interview about what  my mother thought about what sh had learnt

week 28

Hello there to all who like reading my blogs and this week i have carried on from teaching my mum and so far this has been her third week in the studio.

 Today I've continued teaching her the red hot chille peppers song californiacation so far my mother has improved yet again and  this week she's come to grips with the first verse of the song which I'm very happy with. To see that my mothers understood everything so quickly means that everything I've taught has been understood which means we have made progress.

I think personally the whole process has gone well because my mum has rapidly undersdtood and gotten to grips with the song in a three week period but the ammount of time this has taken means we may not have time to record the song - but this was always an extra option in our plan

Freddy and Jo (mum) reflecting on third weeks teaching.




 

Californication chords and Lyrics

Below are the chords for the Song Freddy's mum is learning on the piano - having not played the piano before.

Intro: Am F 4x

 Verse 1:

Am

Psychic spies from China

       F 

Try to steal your mind's elation

Am

Little girls from Sweden

         F   

Dream of silver screen quotations

    C                 G

And if you want these kind of dreams

     F        D

It's Californication

        

Am F x2

 Verse 2:

         Am

It's the edge of the world

           F

And all of western civilization

    Am

The sun may rise in the East

            F

At least it settles in the final location

     C               G

It's understood that Hollywood

      F        D

sells Californication

Am F x2

 Pre Chorus:

Am

Pay your surgeon very well

   F

To break the spell of aging

Am   

Celebrity skin is this your chin

    F

Or is that war your waging

Am            F

First born unicorn

Am             F

Hardcore soft porn

 Chorus:

C            G     D      Am

Dream of Californication

C            G     D

Dream of Californication

Am F x2

 Verse 3:

Am       

Marry me girl be my fairy to the world

      F

Be my very own constellation

  Am

A teenage bride with a baby inside

        F

Getting high on information

    C                   G 

And buy me a star on the boulevard

     F        D

It's Californication

Am F x2

 Verse 4:

        

Am

Space may be the final frontier

         F

But it's made in a Hollywood basement

Am       

Cobain can you hear the spheres

        F

Singing songs off station to station

     C            G

And Alderon's not far away

     F        D

It's Californication

Am F x2

Pre Chorus 2:

Am

Born and raised by those who praise       

      F               

Control of population 

 Am

Everybody's been there and

  F

I don't mean on vacation

Am            F

First born unicorn

Am            F

Hardcore soft porn

 Chorus:

C            G    D       Am

Dream of Californication

C            G    D

Dream of Californication

C            G    D       Am

Dream of Californication

C            G    D

Dream of Californication

F#m D F#m D

Bm D A E

F#m D F#m D

Bm D A E x3

Am F x2

 Verse 5:

Am   

Destruction leads to a very rough road

       F

But it also breeds creation

    Am

And earthquakes are to a girl's guitar

        F

They're just another good vibration

    C                    G

And tidal waves couldn't save the world

     F        D

From Californication

Am F x2 

 Pre Chorus 3:

Am

Pay your surgeon very well

   F

To break the spell of aging

Am

Sicker than the rest there is no test

    F     

But this is what you're craving

Am            F

First born unicorn

Am            F

Hardcore soft porn

 Chorus:

C            G    D      Am

Dream of Californication

C            G    D

Dream of Californication

C            G    D      Am

Dream of Californication

C            G    D

Dream of Californication

Review of Freddy's Silver Arts Award by Vicky

Review of Freddy’s Blog

By Vicky Roberts, Teacher.

Reading Freddy’s blog has been great fun. His relaxed style of writing makes you feel he is talking to you and explaining things as if you were there in front of him. The photos and use of sound bites enhanced the quality of the blog, really allowing the reader to gain a more rounded picture of what Freddy has achieved than words alone.

Freddy has included a high level of detail both about the technical aspects of what he has been learning in the studio and about how the songs he chose to perform took shape. These details could be useful to other students contemplating a similar project.

Freddy has also shown that he has completed a degree of research on the music of the different decades he has covered, which really pays dividends in the versions of the songs he has recorded as they have a very period authentic feel. My only criticism of this aspect of the project is that he has not included references of where he obtained his research. This is a huge research ‘no no’ as it amounts to plagiarism.
I found this format of reading a project slightly difficult in that I think some of the information Freddy has given would have been better placed in a different section of the blog. For instance, it was jarring for me to find the section on Gary Numan as a musical hero amongst Freddy’s 60s work. As a musical icon of the late 70s /early 80s I would have thought he would have been better placed in the blog after the Maggie May work. In the same vein I also found the gig review slightly odd in the middle of the 60s work as Motorhead are not a band of the 60s. I would also like to have seen Freddy’s project completed with his 80s song and a conclusion of what he feels he has achieved with this project.

Overall though I think Freddy has done a magnificent job with the blog and with enhancing his performance skills and studio skills. Knowing where he started from I am most impressed with how much he has achieved in a relatively short time frame and how he has matured during the process. His sense of enjoyment shines throughout the blog and I am so pleased that he has decided to continue his studies at Suffolk New College. He should be very proud of the work he has done with Noise Solution (and vice versa). Best of luck Freddy!

Reviewing plan and how it worked

Our plan was to spend 4 or 5 weeks on each track within the project. We had planned to do four tracks but because stuff took longer than we have expected it looks like we will only manage to get three done.

However we did manage to cover all our main goals that were needed to cover the Arts Award - the other time that we'd planned to do the fourth track in has been taken up with planning and delivering the leadership part of the arts award.

Week 27

hi there to all you music lovers and as you know over the weeks im teaching my mother the piano and cord structure so far this week we have looked at my mothers selected music piece which is Californiacation by the red hot chille peppers so far my summary is that she is picking up the chords very quickly and as a result of this it seems like the teaching is paying off.

firstly we looked at basic chords i.e. c,d,e,f,g,a,b soon after i started showing my mother how to convert a major such as the chords above into minors the formula for a basic chord is known as root 1,4,3 this is a position of the fingers a minors formula is known as 1,3,4. I had to teach minors because my mothers piece had minors in it, i soon realized that my music sheet of chords didn't help to start with because i could see my mother trying to play the chords on the sheet and not remember them to play so i turned the sheet over and we started from the top going from c chord up to b chord and down again i then said could you give me a minor an explained and taught the formula soon after we could play both major and minor .

Unexpectedly i read the chords of the music sheet without her knowing and she nailed it soon after i said "you've just completed the first verse of the song" her reaction was that she couldn't believe it soon after we then we looked at reading chords and learning to find them on the piano. all in all the day was another success and i thought that everything i taught got through which made me feel great and proud of my mother for achieving.



Freddy teaching week 2


Both Jo and Freddy's reflections on how this weeks teaching went.

Comments - by peers

Hi Freddy - great session well done - here's your homework 1. A friends review of your challenge. Here's the web address http://fhsilverartsaward.blogspot.com/p/freddys-music-through-ages-project.html 2.Summary of what your plans are for future - College - Radio - etc Research a little more about places where you can get involved in the arts, collect brochures - CSV Radio - evidence of ICR radio - link to website, pictures of Freddy at radio show. By About Simon Glenister on week 26 delivering first leadership session on 04/05/11
	Really enjoyed my first lesson on chord structures, have got the hang of the basics and now want to learn more!, my tutor taught me well and came up with some good ideas of ways to memorise my learning. By Jo Harris (student) on week 26 delivering first leadership session on 04/05/11
	Excellent work today Freddy - Am very impressed with how you managed to play all the way through Maggie from memory - good skills! By Simon on Week 16 on 12/01/11
	Hi Freddy that sounds good man - I really like your voice all in tune, piano sounds sick man, keep up the good work and doin your thing By Simon on Week 12 mixing and mastering 60s track on 08/12/10
	Great organ playing on 'The House Of The Rising Sun'Freddy and the sound you created is very 'Animal-esque'. It's great to see you have been learning alot and still having fun. The Motorhead gig looked awesome! Looking forward to hearing 'Maggie May' when that is finished. I'm not sure it would be wise to attempt Rod Stewart's style of vocals though or you may end up with a sore throat! Just make it your own! Just a tiny teachery comment. Remember capital letters after full stops! Take care, Vicky. By Anonymous on Week 12 mixing and mastering 60s track on 02/12/10
	I think that was 'Sick' (great) I think your think your very talented - keep doing what your doing (Zane P) By Freddy on Week 10 on 17/11/10
	Really good Freddy, really impressed, loved listening to it, great work. Jo Harris. By Freddy on Week 5-recording the vocals on 17/11/10
	Great stuff yesterday Freddy.! You've come a very long way since I last see you at the studio.! It was great to see you again, and to see your enthusiasm continue to grow.. You really nailed the piece yesterday, and I have every faith that you will do extremely well when you come to record "House of the rising sun" live with Simon(When he's finished touring the globe that is). I look forward to seeing you again soon, keep up the fantastic keyboard skills. :D By Justin Carter on week 7 on 21/10/10
	good choice of song mate, everything takes practise but one day it will all just click together, you've definetly come a long way from the guy we used to know in stoke who everyone thought there was no hope for etc and your proving them wrong which is really good to see after all these years! anyway goood luck with it all buddy By Tim Hackford on week 7 on 20/10/10
	Hi Freddy, I've listened to your 'Hound Dog' track and thought it was excellent. It sounded really authentically '50s and I was amazed by your vocals. I'm so pleased that your project is going well and you seem to be thoroughly enjoying it.  Can't wait to hear the next track! By Vicky on 1st week on 13/10/10
	Fantastic Freddy - really good work! By Simon on Week 5-recording the vocals on 12/10/10
	Hi Freddy Simon played me the track with the vocals on it the other evening. I was amazed! I didn't realize that you were going to do the singing too and Si says you weren't always a singer. It sounds brilliant, well done! Belinda By Belinda Bell on Week 4 - tidying up backing track on 11/10/10
	HI Freddy, I had lots of fun learning how to play Hound Dog in the studio today it's a really fun Rock'n'Roll piece to play. Before Our next session in the studio I'd like you to write about the session today and what you learnt from it. I'd also like you to find some information about recording technics in the 50's. What's really important is that having read about recording you blog about what you've learnt and how it effects what and how we record our peice. What limitations will it impose? Post links to the information you find or pictures. Look forward to next week. Oh and practice the piece and remember your memory stick! Regards Simon By Freddy on 1st week on 15/09/10

Week 26 Future Plans

Hi there to all who wants to know where Im going from here after my Noise solution project well if you don't know I am trying to get into Suffolk new collage and I've done my interview which went really well and the qualification which I am hoping to take is a media BTEC level 2 diploma ill put the hyperlink to the page in below in this it will teach me more about the arts which im interested in and to hope, one day id like to teach the subject to youngsters or people who are willing to get into media and music the course will cover various different subjects such as photography, Radio broadcastment which im involved in at the moment, TV advertisement and much more.


It's a one year course and if I chose to do the next level whether I can stay in that is is up to me or the collage to decide. At the moment Lapwing who are my learning contractors who have helped me get the qualifications I need for collage have asked for me to teach another student who wants to carry on the Radio show I set up originally at Ipswich Community Radio for lapwing named: Lapwing Radio it did go out live at one point and will hopefully carry on when I teach this new student how to become a top presenter of ICR: I will leave the link to the web page below.

Ipswich Community Radio Logo

Radio presenting is an art in media and has always been a passion of mine due to the fact that I don't stop talking and talking is a talent in this world for which Radio Broadcasting thrives on. This for me was my first entry into the public arts as I appeared as a special guest on a pre-recorded radio show the name of the show is forgotten to me now since its been sometime since I got into it but from there I was very keen and pushed my out and about volunteer into becoming a radio DJ so I could soon one day become a presenter my self which I have successfully done and as you can see I started a radio show up for my contractors and Im planning on teaching the art someday to young eccentric presenters like my self who can keep the revolution of Radio broadcastment going.

Presenters @ Ipswich Community Radio

My first step will be to sign on up as a radio volunteer for ICR and from there id love to help and teach the art to those who wish to learn it. If push comes to shove id sign up with CSV and do it that way if possible (I will add CSV's link as well.)

Here's a couple of pics of me in the studio with Mark Rolfe the presenter for the Gamerz Show

http://www.csv.org.uk/?display=volunteering CSV

www.ICRFM.co.uk ICR

http://www.lapwingsuffolk.org.uk/ Lapwing 

www.oaa.co.uk/ Out and about 

http://www.suffolk.ac.uk/our_courses/full_time/media/btec_level_2_diploma_in_media_dmf92f0 
MY Qualification im hoping to take

week 26 delivering first leadership session

hi there to all who wish to read my blog for this weeks session today i had to do my other part of my silver arts award which was the leadership task where i set myself weeks to teach someone what i had learnt and the student which i so happened to be teaching was my mother and i felt that she understood everything i had taught her firstly i gave her a VIP tour of the studio and showed her the fire exits as well as covering health and safety.

Soon after we went onto learning the notes on the piano this was to make me understand wether or not she understood what the key notes of a piano were i.e. a,b,c,d,e,f,g after a bit of going over this subject she seemed to have understood clearly after 2-3 Min's of going over old grounds as my mother had been previously taught by a former teacher of mine soon after i knew she was confident in notes we soon moved on to chord structure understanding that starting on a c note using the counting formula 1.4.3 where you position your fingers in structure of the numbers counting upwards presents a cord.

After 30 Min's i started seeing real improvement i could see that my mother understood the cords very quickly after i had taught her the cords we took a brief look at majors and minors and then after all this i interviewed my mother about how she thought her session went if you want to hear the interview click below all in all i thought the session went well and i cant wait ill next week stay posted

Here is some video of me teaching and below that a recorded interview covering what my student thought and another covering what I thought of the lesson.


Freddy's reflection on his teaching


Freddy's mums reflection on being taught

week 25 Project Review, Risk assessment and other stuff

hello there for all those who wish to read my latest update on whats been going on at my noise solution as you all know or haven't known ive been on holiday and im now back fully refreshed ready for music and my project for that matter. today we recorded vocally my overall report on how i think the project has gone which went well if you wish to hear click the play button below.





we also took a look at the risk assessment for the studio i work in for my next part of the project the leadership task where i shall be tutoring my mother. me and my mentor went over all the risks and i fully acknowledged all risks and hazards including fire exits and health and safety.

Here is our assessment



we also looked at the weeks that i have to teach in and talked about that in this we talked about the structure of the sessions.

I also had ago with one of my tutors inventions being able to mix and play with sound via a wii remote i think its an awesome idea because a wii remote uses bluethooth in order to connect to certain things including a computer once connected it converts its transmissions to midi and then after with musical computerised sounds involved the worlds your oyster you can tell the remote to read and play different sounds to how you hold the remote including the numchuck which i think is a good idea because it enables people who struggle to create or play music to have the chance to have ago at making music

Week 24

hello there to all that like music to the very ends of the earth its me again at noise pollution and today me and my tutor Simon planned the second part of my arts award the leadership sessions. which will be commencing in may i am hoping to teach my mother so what a fun ride thay'll be. I'm looking forward to teaching and I'm hoping that everything that I' have taught will be good knowledge to keep forever.

Here is my plan - it may change

Today i also had the exclusive opportunity to use a device that my favorite modern 80s syth pop artist little boots uses in her performances called a tanori-on a magical device that enables people who cant play certain instruments or atall to engage in music through creativetivey and art.


The tanori-on uses led lighted buttons that you can press in order of a 16 beat tempo on different octives its an amazing device to use and its very universal to other forms music data such as midi.    

Here is a discussion I had just after making my plan - answering the questions in My Silver booklet about the plan


Part of the planning is to look at health and safety here is me interviewing the Studio owner about his fire regulations and plans if there was a fire

Week 23

hi there and if your viewing my blog this is week 23 of noise pollution and about how todays session went well firstly we discussed looked the evidence check list to see what needs doing there are such things doing such as writing a review of the project itself to planning the leadership sessions which we havent done yet as were planning that next week in the afternoon part of the session however we recorded over my organ piece because i was unhappy with the high and low occtives of the organ we mxed that down into the track list and thats ready for next week and i felt brilliant    

Reviewing what Freddy needs to do to complete his Arts Award

Week 23 review of work that needs doing

Unit 1

1. A friends review of your challenge.

2 Write a report on your challenge - looking at what the plan was, what you actually did, what worked ,       what didn't.

Unit1.2

1. Research a little more about places where you can get involved in the arts, collect brochures - CSV Radio - evidence of ICR radio - link to website, pictures of Freddy at radio show

2.Summary of what your plans are for future - College - Radio - etc


All of the above to be done as Homework for easter holidays


Unit 2.1 (Arts leadership project)

1. Project plan

2. Evidence of project

3. report on project

week 22

hi there guyz and this my 22 week at the noise pollution and it is slowly coming near to the end awww but no worries because Simon 1 is back from touring world wide yay! however sadly the old Simon 2 has disappeared but not from the face of the earth today we added the vocals at last to the maggie may sound track by rod Stewart which i enjoyed doing because with lyrics all you have to do is sing them. but we had to over dub in some parts of the song because i lost track of the melody if any of you guys or gils are wondering what over dub means all it is is that when you sing a song and lose your footings you can record over the errored parts of the track where you went wrong. we also double tracked the song in some places giving the song two vocals of my voice so i sung over some bits of the song twice.  we also planned for the next stage in my arts award where i have to teach every thing i've learnt to somebody else who may not know in my case my mum who knows the basics of piano technique s but does not know chords this is what i will teach her and im going to start planning the sessions from next week i will upload the plan so that all may read after i have wrote the plan up. i have have eleven weeks left to complete the silver award and im planning to deliver my sessions in may and ill spend the next few weeks putting the plan together we may also put together a 80s piece if we get time.

Week 21

hi there guyz and this is my 21st week, and to start with we discussed how my plans were going for my leadership project. This will last at least 5 weeks and i am doing this with my mum. here's the basic layout.

Today we also added some more musical material to my Maggie May piece done by Rod Stewart. This is by adding an electric guitar to it. I worked the desk while my temporary tutor took stage and played a reasonably good guitar track, I thought the session went well. We looked at two microphones and recorded them both to get a good sound/

Its also the last week of learning with my temp tutor and i am gonna miss him in a way because he's taught me a fair bit of what he has to know about music and it was good of him to chip in and hopefully he'll pop along to more of our sessions i have at the noise solution.

Here's the track with guitar on

Week 20

here is the interview i did with simon Doling as part of my Arts practitioners section of the Silver Award. I tried to find out what he does in the arts and how he started doing it.




Here is a link to the BTEC Level 2 Diploma in Media course that i'm going to do at Suffolk New College in Ipswich to continue my learning.
http://www.suffolk.ac.uk/our_courses/full_time/media/btec_level_2_diploma_in_media_dmf92f0


I got richard to finish his bass part as well today. Here is the song with it on. Nearly there now..



Me behind the desk, guiding him through

Week 19

hi there guyz and gals and this my 19th week at noise solution and this week my tutor is away performing with his band in Australia so ive got a temporary tutor who is nice and polite and doesn't stop talking sounds like me but older, what a great hook up my tutor has linked me with. Firstly we discussed what we do an how we got into music and soon after we got along and after that i started to show him how to play chords easily which i enjoyed showing him what i have learnt and to be able to share my knowledge with him. we also discussed the unit that im planning to do where i have to interview someone from the arts and my temp tutor works in the music industry so im planning to interview him i may ask him such questions as :

How did you get into music?

What do you do now?

Also, what advice could you give me as im going to attend a collage course in media is there any musical or technical advice you can give me for that?

What do you have planned for the future?

What instruments can you play and enjoy playing with?

We're hoping to do the interview in next weeks session.

We also looked at EQing today because my temp tutor is alot more clued up with eqing than my current tutor and he explained the whole spectrum of equalizing sound to me which i have found hard to understand the concepts of. We looked at the differences of DBs and Khz which stand for decibels and kilohertz which effect the way sound is produced we also looked at graphic eqs and a parametric eq. even though there is still alot more to learn i now at least understand alot more than i did.   

me, looking at the parametric eq on the desk in the studio.