Audio Studies A – Creative Project

Remember
Scott Philp
5 ‘ 14

The track Remember came originally from the electric guitar parts. The guitar was recorded and then lyrics and melody were written almost at the same time as recording. All parts were by written and played by myself. I used Peak LE to check out all the files before bringing them into pro tools, and to do my analysis for the Samples sheet. I found peak easier to go through and analyse a file so that’s why I used it instead of pro tools. There is some volume automation used on the tracks, with some panning automation a feature of one part of the guitar sections. The reverb effect is automated to change the input level coming into the chorus. As there are two tracks for each guitar I used a small delay plugin to find the point with the most phase cancellation and then inverted the second track to create a stronger signal. The Guitars are grouped into two sections (Guitar 1, and 2) and then the Vocals were grouped with their aux reverb track to allow me to mute them all easily. I used bus’ and aux tracks for both reverbs and a feature delay for the guitars. When editing the guitar tracks there was one section where I had left too long of a gap and I had to cut out some space to make it make sense musically. However this created a little click in the track. I got around this by a small fade in/fade out at the point of cutting. There were many takes left in the raw data file so the region list was quite full, once I cleared all the unused files it was far more manageable and I kept a copy of all the original files in a backup folder. However there are still some play lists with alternate takes left in as I was checking things out on them until the final mix. Doing the master tightened up the bottom end nicely but I had a problem with the end of the track peaking after I bounced the track. In the end the overall volume of the track ended up a little bit lower than I would’ve liked it to be because of this.

Blog note... Sorry about the singing

MP3 of Mixdown : http://www.box.net/shared/iivsk0ocf9