Stress be gone!

It's been a stressful week, but it's been a productive and worth while one.

I delivered an awesome presentation on analogue and digital audio principles, survived a near fatal bus crash, finally completed GIRP (pointless addictive game) and have continued working towards Mutech's CD launch, which manly consisted of a team building exercise in one of Leicester's finest student bars.

Check out Jake's blog for further development of artwork for Mutech.

Time for a relaxing Friday evening with Alley Barber.

For anyone that cares go check out this site, it has links for a few free plug-ins. Nothing special but there is a half decent frequency analyser amongst them.

Album of the week, is Metric's excellent "Fantasies"

Enjoy

The Barbershop Chorus Recording

After weeks of planning, last thursday finally saw Rich and I orchestrate the recording of a barbershop chorus. Overall the session was a success, the chorus were brilliant and we managed to capture 12 tracks in a two and a half hour session. A few initial problems included the theatres PA speakers pouring out a horrid hiss and the kick drum of a band practing next door almost breaking down the walls, but they were quickly overcome. Unfortunately there are a few issues of spill on the recordings produced by suffering feet. But short of carpeting the theatre and stealing the shoes of the chorus members, there was very little we could have done about it and i'm sure the final production will be great.

The session was recorded using an X-Y pair, an A-B pair, four spot mics, a large diaphragm condenser with a figure-eight polar pattern and an omni mic, so ten mics in total. As i mentioned above, we managed to lay down 12 tracks so theres plenty of mixing and mastering to be done over the coming days. I've posted a quick mix of one of the tracks below to help give an impression of what the session was about. I've also posted a time-lasped video of the evening for one and all to enjoy.

As for the rest of the week.It's been one of continual research for potential business and website opportunities and a touch of music making with Alley Barber. I also discovered the sounds of Atticus Ross, the gentleman was responsible for the theme music of the film "The Book of Eli" as well as other great songs, so go listen.

As for now, it's time for a drop of wine and some Super Bowl Sunday!!!

Yesterday - Barbershop Choir by Paulie_h3