Last few weeks ago, I was attended a recording session that belong to my learning module, Music and Music Production. This was my first time even to do a music recording for a band. It is a very excited experience that I never been experience before... Oh ya... forgot to mention about the band that we was recording is Muddybanks.

Before we start the recording, we need to do the set up for the recording. We took all the equipments such as drum set, mic stands, microphones, cables and guitar amplifier from the FMS department. At the beginning, we set up the drum set first. From that I realized the proper set up and position for the drum set... Hi-hat, floor tom, snare, kick drum, and so on... Its really not that easy to set up all of these. After the set up for drum, we need to prepare microphones for every drum instrument. condensor mic, dynamic mics are been used to record the drum. We also need to connect all the microphones to the mixer channels to do the monitoring. One of my teammates, Aishah was taking charge of it.

setting up...

cheeky-monkey-ing.... Andrewwww.....

What was you doing there, ANDREW.... *cough*....

So, later on was the sound check session. We was doing the sound check and tuning for the drum set at the same time. Again, Aishah was taking charge the channel monitoring and she need to make sure the audio level is acceptable and it cant be disorted or clipping. She done a really good job of it. Meanwhile, Izwan, Andrew and me was helping out to adjust the microphone for the drum set. Beside the drum, we also need to prepare a few channels for bass, electric guitar and guide vocal.

Our lecturer, Mr Cim Bo was looking on the Mackie Mixer... a lot of problem occured on this mixer... some of the channels didnt work properly... (its the right time to change it, FMS)

Aishah on drum?? guess what, she was just testing the mics...


Get prepare... ready....

well, this is the band's drummer... we was prepared a cue to him to make sure that he can listen what was his band playing.... and he was doing the tuning at the same time...

Start recording... everyone was concentrating on their jobs...

He is pretty good on drum.... seriously...

Well, after the recording for the track of music instruments, we need to prepare a vocal mic for vocalist to dub the vocal...
Condensor mic... Mic stand... Pop filter... Izwan... Andrew... Vocalist... were needed for it...

Setting up the vocal mic...

Logic Pro was been used for the recording... and I was taking charge of it during the recording...

From this recording session, I can feel that how hard to create a good recording. I know that is hard, but it is harder than what I thought. After we done the recording, we still need to do the pre-mixing session to synchronize the beat and tempo then we can give the music a proper mixing to make the overall music sound better.

For the mixing session, EQ, compressor, noise gate and other audio processor need to be apply if possible to perform certain effects that can help to make our project better and delete or clear some unwanted sound. The theory behind is too complicated so I won't talk much about it here... even I can't understand some of it...

I was really enjoyed this and hopefully I can upload the after-mixing project here as soon as possible...

learned more on music... feel more on music... music is my life...