Going through and analysing / cleaning up vocal harmonies for an artists's album in very intense detail.
Said artist is wearing headphones as Lee is working with the monitors. She’s been able to catch more of the smaller details, breaths and artefacts as Lee works with the monitor’s (PSI monitors – do it as a research) to hear the piece as a whole as is his personal preference. DETAILS Pitch correction artefacts and smaller mistakes in OG vocal harmonies can be exacerbated when used as a basis for the other harmonies. Make sure you’re satisfied with your vocal takes. Lee’s Vocal Plugin = VocAlign (reverb / pitch curves & automation) They’ve been catching smaller compression details and manually automating them down / up when needed. Again, stresses the importance of maintaining vocal consistency in the original recording where possible – it helps to save time during mixing. Most of the session has been going through and cutting out / fading any obvious little breaths or artefacts (mostly cutting out silences between phrases completely). Some of it has been shaping the autotune to make it smoother with the other vocal takes. Make sure to listen to how sections of the track lead into each other after spending a chunk of time mixing a certain part of the track, otherwise you may change it too much! Don’t be afraid to get rid of stuff you’ve recorded for the good of the song. This includes cutting out bass note for bass drops, elongating notes where needed etc. Getting a second opinion on certain mixes is good so you’re not getting too in your own head about it - musical opinions preferably but sometimes just asking someone to compare the pair can help. Standing up and seeing how it sounds from different places in the room (or just stretching) w ceiling buffers… probs quite important… Artist is using headphones she’s more used to / comfortable with while Lee works with BIG monitor speakers. Micro-shifting = different version of doubling (fake doubling)
Sometimes smaller tweaks are better than outright getting rid of something / changing something e.g. toning down the micro – shifting on the song to adjust the brightness of the vocals BUT also found that a small adjustment on the multiband compressor in the top end helped with this too. Trying not to lose the tone of the song.
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My total budget for this semester is a tentative $1000 - I'd rather not spend all of it, but I'm trying to be realistic about the pricing. Upon working in the studio for a little bit, my initial list of items to budget for come under the following: 1. A Preamp / Interface that can be extended to multiple inputs e.g. a Focusrite 4 channel preamp. Price approx. $500 - $600 2. Repairing the keys on the electric Yamaha piano. Price approx. $150 3. Extending the drum riser and adding extra storage space to it. Price approx. $50 - 70 4. Repairing the active amp for the mixing speakers. Price approx. $50 - $60 5. Buying a new cymbal stand. Price approx. $20 - $40 6. Using expanding foam and egg cartons to make extra sound proofing. Price approx. $30 - $40 Everything bolded above are my personal spending priorities for this semester as it will drastically effect my own workflow and will help to ease my mind (much of it is to do with repairs). To help reduce the cost of these renovations, my idea is to make the storage for the drum riser myself and to make my own sound proofing. You can see my initial rough design ideas for the drum riser below. It will store the majority of the microphone stands, as well as any other cymbal stands etc. that I need it to. I've already messaged the professional electric piano repairman for dropping off my Yamaha keyboard tomorrow morning. Everything is in the back of my car and ready to go and hopefully, I'll get it back before next week so I'll be ready to record.
Above is a link to my self reflective essay on my special topics unit. I describe the outline of my unit and detail a rough timeline of how I plan to achieve my goals for it this semester.
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Artist SummaryI'm a WA Fremantle based singer-songwriter / composer. Here, you can have a gawk at my studies, compositions and performances. Archives
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