Tuesday 19/11/13

In this session we looked at mixing a track to make it sound good and fit properly, one of the group sat at the sound board and based on suggestions from the group and instruction from our lecturer they worked to produce the right sound.

Chapel session 18/11/13 the grass snakes

In this session we had a group called The Grass Snakes in, we recorded them playing three songs, they seemed to be a country and folk group, they were using a mandolin, guitar, violin, double bass, banjo and vocals. On the first song one of the band members kept going out of time and got frustrated with himself, in the end they said couldn't do any more. They took between three and five takes per song.

Music tech assignment using sound forge 18/11/13

Today we started using sound forge, we learned the shortcuts for putting in markers, moving around the page, cutting bits out and mixing sounds.

Exploring a radio programme

I am looking at the Elaine Paige show on radio 2 for my exploring a radio programme, with regard to audience I would estimate that this show is for people 35 and up particularly those interested in musical theatre.

Tuesday 5th learning about sound engineer

We looked at a song from bob Marley and the wailers song and we attempted to mix it, each person having a go at it, interestingly none of us had the correct proportion of music to vocals.

Radio 2 listening figures notes for exploring a radio station

I looked into listening figures and they seem to be going down over each quarter.

Here is a link to the website I used to find my figures,

http://www.rajar.co.uk/listening/quarterly_listening.php

Monday 4th November setting up microphones

Today we looked at setting up microphones for a piano and drum kit and different types of microphones. We used two dynamic mic's and a condenser pencil mic for the drum kit and we used two pencil microphones for the piano. We also looked at different polar patterns, these are the reaches of the microphones.