My Recording Portfolio Write up

8/12/2019 My Recording Portfolio Write up

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Music Portfolio

When deciding what to do for our portfolio, we got together as a group and listen the

main things we would need, and what each others strong point was, Harry was

producing and vocals, mine was vocals also and Lee's strong point was that he could

always jazz things up, For my first trac i used a sample of a clip i found on !ou"u#e,

when deciding what i wanted to do with my portfolio $ came to the conclusion that $

wanted to use a range of genres, For e%ample i used an $ndie #and for the song the

song which needed drums and a &apper for the song (M which is a hip hop sampled

song) We used a range of e*uipment when recording, we used a +oundcraft +apphyre

Mi%ing des to give a range for all the instruments we used F-s and F.s as well as

two (udio "echnica Pro / for the overheads)

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When recording this $ found a sample of a man saying 2$ts five o'cloc in the

morning2and lied the sound of it so i decided to put it onto the &ap instrumental $ was

maing on Logic, Harry also lied it so we sat down and had a real listen, We then

opened the file of our instrumental and uploaded the audio of the sample, We then

compressed the vocals using the 3ompression tool on the Logic plug in, we left the

compression threshold at .-) d4, which means the gain had to #e put at 5d4, We then

looed at a pitch change using Pitch +hifter also in the Logic plug ins, we turned the

semi tone to 6, then then put the senses on - and the mi% to -- which gave the vocal

the female chipmun effect, (t this point we had realized we had forgotten to 78 it so we

used the 78 plug in, We had to #ring the mids down slightly and found that there was

some unwanted signal at certain fre*uencies so we had to reduce it to get a clean vocal,

When moving on to Harry's verse we 3reated a new trac and came up with the lyrics,

"he mic we used for this was a s7 9 which ran 9L&+ through a Focusrite +affire 6

:+4 sound card, "he *uality of the vocals was clear cut, once he had recorded his first

verse we #egan to edit it and mae it sound professional, we started with 78 when we

started the 78 was very simple ;ecreasing the high and #oosting the mids, We the

came across an unwanted fre*uency and reduced the main to level it all out,


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record, We added the same effects to the second verse as we did the first which wored

out perfect, for the ending we faded out the instrumental soft and su#tle using the

(utomation tool when pressing ( on a (pple ?ey#oard) When mastering this trac we

done an mp5 #ounce then open a master trac on a new Logic +ave and we done a

fae master where we 7*'ed it then added a multipress to #oost the fre*uencies and

added an adaptive limiter to #oost the overall levels)

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fre*uencies and added an adaptive limiter to #oost the overall levels)

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When starting this project i new it was going to #e hard for me cause i cannot play any

instrumentals to a good standard so i had help from a third party source who helped

mae an emotional &C4D&ap instrumental, $t starts of with a warped guitar #eing pluced

then moves to an am#ient piano, #efore the drums ic in, $ first heard it and the concept

for the name the concept of this song was a#out how womenDmen are constantly played

#y the opposite se% and are starting to #elieve that there is no one out there for him, i

wanted to e%press myself and tell who ever is listening that nothing is set in stone and

there could #e a chance that they will find the perfect someone, lyrics instantly came to

mind as i have trust issues myself and it is a touchy su#ject #ut music has #een my way

of e%pressing myself for some times, $ didn't record myself for this song it was all up to

Harry i just gave him an idea of how i wanted it to sound and the style i wanted it to #e,

when it was coming to a close it was clear we needed a strong chorus for it to #e a stand

out song so we #rang a singer called "illy Pantlin in to record the chorus which was

originally written, "illy however couldn't figure out how she could sing it and was *uite

nervous when recording cause of the amount of people in the studio so she had to

record with her facing the door, #ecause she couldn't figure out how to sing it we had to

come up with a whole new chorus which Lee wrote very *uicly on the spot, which was

great as time was running out, When she had more confidence we started to record her

vocals #ut at first she sounded too enthusiastic and that isnt how you should feel when

singing a#out such a touchy su#ject so she did her taes again this time she put someemotion into her voice which really made #oth the verse and the chorus play of each

other, when recording the mic we used for the vocals was a &E;7 "--- which has

ultraGlow 6d4( selfGnoise and transformerless circuitry,which was running phantom

power through a Focusrite +affire 6 :+4 which has a &eal World (;3 ;ynamic &ange>

- d4 0(Gweighted1, ;ynamic &ange 0(GWeighted1> - d4 microphone input as well

as a Fre*uency &esponse of .-Hz G .-Hz DG -) d4) when recording the software

used was Logic Pro A and the computer we used was a i Mac, (fter recording Harry

started to add 78, 3ompression, and space design to #oth of our vocals and also using

3elemony's Melodyne plug in he corrected the pitch in "illy's chorus, $ wasn't there for

the editing process as i had some where to #e #ut after he had finished and showed me

the final product $ ased him what he did to master it and he told me he Fae mastered it

and added a adaptive limiter)

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4ecause i new vocals were my strong point when it came to the tech side of music $

needed to really show it and when one of my friends called Lauren e%pressed her

urgency to record a cover of one of her favorite songs i was happy to a#lidge, Lauren sat

down with me and told me what song she wanted to record which was a ?ings of Leon

cover of the song :se +ome#ody, We got her set up in the #ooth at my home recording

studio and set her height on the mic stand as the was *uite small, we then played her anacoustic piano remae of the ?ings of Leon #acing trac, which she loved and started

to really enjoy the recording process, We started recording #ut had a pro#lem with the

latency which we didn't now that the Latency #utton had to #e pressed on Logic

otherwise it sounds severely out of time, once the pro#lem was solved Lauren could

#egin her recording, her vocals were done in very few taes only #ecause she is a

perfectionist when it comes to her singing, the s7 9 mic was perfect for Lauren as it

has G5. d4IDPa 0.)mIDPa1 which means it is sensitive to the sound it pics up which

means it can pic up all of Lauren's fre*uencies, , When adding space design to your vocals

you clic the plug ins #utton it should #e under the &ever# ta#, we put the settings to

wooden #ooth which gave us the option to turn &ever# and ;ry up or down so we turned

we up ;ry all the way and &ev at . which made the vocals fit perfectly, when this wasfinished we played through the whole trac to see if anything was missing and there

didn't seem to #e so we moved on to mastering, When mastering this trac we done a

fae master where we 7*'ed it then added a multipress we also added an adaptive

limiter to #oost the overall levels)

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When recording this cover we really used the same tools and effects as we did on her

?ings of Leon cover, Lauren wanted to record a cover to #e worthy of !ou"u#e so she

ased me if $ could record her cause she lies how she sounds on the s7 9, We found

her the #acing trac to #rea even and started to record, she did this one in only one

tae and the editing process #egan, We added 78 it wasn't as hard this time cause she

didn't noc the mic stand, there was not many fighting fre*uencies so we ept the mid

the same #oosted the high and decreased the low, We then ne%t compressed it #ecause


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he voice is the same we did the same with the compression on her vocals, we put the

threshold at @d4 which meant we had to move the gain to .d4 we left the attac alone

#ut changed the &atio to .>, we then added space design to her vocals on this one, we

put the settings to wooden #ooth which again gave us the option to turn &ever# and ;ry

up or down so we turned we up ;ry all the way and &ev at . just lie we did on the

previous cover, once the recording process was finished we then had to master thistrac, When mastering we again done a fae master where we 7*'ed it then added a

multipress we also needed an adaptive limiter to #oost the overall levels)

7llie Joulding +ample

When creating this instrumental i had a melody in mind that was ind of a 4ass #ut &C4

style, i set a#out creating it on a midi ey#oard at college, $ started of with a synth and

created the melody from there, $ used a pre made synth from the Logic instruments, $

had a overall view of what i wanted and once the synth was created an in time, and to a

4PM of A-, once the melody was recorded and logic i then #egan playing with the drums

and added a new software instrumental channel, i used the pre made studio drums and

wrote them into the se*uence the fits in with the melody, i then *uantized the drum #eats

to a / #eat so they were in time with the melody, no i have the maings of the

instrumental i needed something else and seeing that i didn't have a sample trac for my

portfolio i thought 7llie Joulding would #e perfect, i used one of her acoustic sessions on

!ou"u#e and downloaded it to the logic file, it fit great with the instrumental so i out it

into the es%./ sampler and used the midi ey#oard to sample it, i then added the

finishing touches, and had to e* the vocals #ecause they were taen from a acousticsession so i needed them to sound recorded, $ decreased all of the 78 so you couldn't

tell that it was an acoustic session, $ then compressed it cause the 78 made it really low,

i had to up the threshold to . so i had the gain on 5 and on full attac, the ratio was

changed to .>> i then added sample delay to the sample, and space design, $ copy and

pasted the sample channel two more times so i could pan each one to a left, &ight , #oth

speaers, when mastering this trac i again #ounced it down to an mp5 file then opened

a new logic master save file we then done a fae master where we 7*'ed it then added a

multipress we also added an adaptive limiter to #oost the overall levels)

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