Who would have thought it, in my role as a music technician, I do lighting as well now. The University received delivery of some new lights for St Pauls Hall and a sales consultant from Stage Electric to program them and find a place for them on our lighting desk. Read more…
JDaviesAudio is moving to a new home and this means building a new studio! We have our plans in place now and its time to get going. The first lot of flightcases have been loaded in and some of the equipment has made it to its final location already. The plans Read more…
I have recently started working as a technical assistant in music and media at Huddersfield University. One of my new colleagues has just brought a hang drum and so we have decided to get in the studio and have some fun with it. We took 2 DPA 4011’s and put Read more…
Whatsername was a very fun track to mix but not without its challenges. I wanted to get it across the faders of the Audient desk that I was using instead of mixing it entirely in the box. This meant that over the 2 or 3 mix sessions that I had Read more…
This Day we focused on getting some drum samples, we were aiming to get some particulally clean and characterful samples from a black panther snare. Our first decision was to remove as much from the room as possible; we removed all of the cymbals and toms and dampened the kick Read more…
Green 2 Today we had a 2 hour recording session focusing on guitar and bass again. We tacked lead guitar, some textural guitar parts before re-tracking bass. The set up was very similar to the last recording session, using a fender telecaster in to an orange amp. For the textural Read more…
Green 4 Vocals In this recording session we tracked Vocals, we began the recording session at 09:30, not an ideal time of day for vocals! Because of the early time I was extra careful to be warming up my voice from the time I woke up. We began by getting Read more…
Green 2 Guitar On the 10 th we went in to track most of the guitar tracks in a 2 hour session. We went in with a starting point for the signal path from our last recording session. We used a fender telecaster, going into an Orange TH30. On the Read more…
Greenrooms 2 Today we made our first guitar takes, we have taken a look at using a fender twin but it didn’t deliver a tone that we thought was quite there, we have also looked at a marshal and a messa boogie. We finally settled on an Orange TH30 OF Read more…
In the recording session today we re tracked drums to try and capture a more aggressive sound across the board, particularly with the snare. We also set out to track bass as well at the same time. The session started at 9am and we started by discussing what we would Read more…