AA Week 12

I think i got a bit carried away with my assignments that i forgot to blog my week 12 mastering examples.
Here you go.

Similar results to week 11. I have to admit that i don't really know what I'm doing. Squash the sound, drop/boost the frequencies here and there. I don't really have a system. I defiantly need to do some more reading on this. I can see how important this stage is. I never did before. I thought you could do it all in the mix. But mastering brings out the whole performance, not just the individual parts.

check out the files in the box widget.

AA Assesment Sem1 2008

Two fantastic bands, who were well organized, practiced, and very easy to get along with. I couldn't have asked for easier people to work with. Overall I'm fairly happy with the end result. The idea that if you record it right you don't need much post work is very true. Because of my excessive microphone recordings for many tracks i didn't even need to process them at all. The fugue and the rhythm guitar track are examples of this. The rhythm guitar track has no plug ins or ran through any effects. My EQ was the 5 mics to choose from. With the brass fugue i miced up every instrument, some with two mics. And again this was my EQ. Only a few instruments in this needed some softening with effects. Apart from that, very little post work was needed on it.

Have a listen to the songs in the box widget, I've also put the documentation in there.
Please not a change in the Fugue documentation. In the drop box version there aren't names in some of the fields. Ive added them with this documentation.

CC Assesment Sem1 2008

Getting the patch to its first running state was quite a bit of a task and quite frustrating. But once i got it running it was great to play with because it was something that I'd wanted to do for quite a while, make an automatic chord progression machine. It has really shown me the power of max and given a taste of what programming is like. Have fun with AutaChord.

The documentation, Mp3 example and the patch are in the box widget.

Ive also updated the patch, with a new splash page image.

AA2 Week 11

I have to admit, this week i had very little idea what i was doing, but you've gotta start somewhere. Ive never done this sort of EQing or compression before, it feels totally different to just applying this to one instrument. I never realized how much a little ammount of work can change the whole song. Everything becomes so much more exaggerated, it really opens the whole thing wide open. Because i did this in Studio 5 there wasnt a very good effect pallete to play with, but the main ideas are there. i found mydelf EQing my EQ. I dont know if this is a very good idea, but it seemed to be working for me. In future i think that i will avoid this because, especially in the case of analog gear, it raises system noise. Compression was really difficult, i didnt know where to start. Or how to approach this. This is something i must bring up in calss.

Check out the files and pics in the Box Widget

References:

Grice, David. "Mastering." Lecture. Adelaide University. 27/5/08.