I arrived at 10:30 and we continued working on mixing and mastering the music (well okay I watched and learned)
The supervisor had to apply reverb, but as I wondered how much should be added he started explaining more about it. He pulled up the trueverb program which allowed you to pull the yellow line (room size) and the blue line (amount of reverb in that room)
He explained that no reverb is dry and with effects is wet. You want your vocals to be as DRY as possible because that's easier to mess with. You'd want to add a room effect later on to make it sound more natural, but if there is already a reverb on there it's really hard to get rid of it. It will make the vocals sound really bad.
So the first step in recording is having a tight room/ getting rid of the reverb.
* You first got to check what kind of room you have and how much reverb you have when recording.
Then you can tighten the sound by using panels or wood to trap the sound, for example if you have a piano stationed.
* Rooms with low ceilings you dont have to work on the ceiling. If it's high you need panels.
* Rooms in the basement sound tighter than attics as they are stationed in ground.
* Rooms with a triangle ceilings are hard to work with, you either have to use big panels on the ceiling or you have to know how the sound bounces depending on where you are.
* You can also use a triangle behind the microphone so it gets trapped in the corner. This can be made out of wood and it has to surround the microphone.
I have small panels randomized on the ceiling so I will have to take a look at what to change. Or my dad can build the wooden box around the new microphone.
A new microphone is fun and all, but the connection between the microphone and laptop is even more important. It's good that I invest in an interface too so it will improve the volume and hopefully will bring less noise than the one I have now! If I want to be professional I have to get a Neumann microphone, but that one will cost 1300 dollars.
For any tips on recording, sound and stuff I can check the Mix magazine.
When we had a break the supervisor explained things about expanding business to other countries. I don't have to stick around in the Netherlands, but can make deals with different countries like the supervisor does now. Sometimes depending on the currency you can make twice the amount of money so you have to choose countries carefully.
After the break the mastering phase happened and the supervisor showed me the EQ.
Never ever create a happy face in the EQ, this will never sound right. Always stay close to the main line and tweek it by a little. Numbers don't matter in EQ as every song requires something else. The only time when numbers matter is when you re-apply it to the same song.
The music stuff was done and I moved onto graphic design. Namely changing the album booklet for a band I had been working on before. I had to add in the bandmembers, but some lyrics got too long for the page.
The supervisor told meto change the font from 9 till 7, only I worried that would be too small.
We'll have to look into it. Also the title had to stand out so it could be around size 12, 13.
Later I had to work on the background. The supervisor wanted me to look for a symbol andwe chose a star, but it looked like crap and didn't fit. I had the task to find a new symbol and find a sort of cross looking thing. I put it in the middle, but also changed the background from black to havng a water pattern.
The supervisor told me to duplicate the symbols so I made them go around the page, but smaller.
The only thing that was missing were the initials of the band. I tried putting it 3/4 but it didn't look right so I moved it on the right bottom corner of the middle symbol.
The supervisor had to apply reverb, but as I wondered how much should be added he started explaining more about it. He pulled up the trueverb program which allowed you to pull the yellow line (room size) and the blue line (amount of reverb in that room)
He explained that no reverb is dry and with effects is wet. You want your vocals to be as DRY as possible because that's easier to mess with. You'd want to add a room effect later on to make it sound more natural, but if there is already a reverb on there it's really hard to get rid of it. It will make the vocals sound really bad.
So the first step in recording is having a tight room/ getting rid of the reverb.
* You first got to check what kind of room you have and how much reverb you have when recording.
Then you can tighten the sound by using panels or wood to trap the sound, for example if you have a piano stationed.
* Rooms with low ceilings you dont have to work on the ceiling. If it's high you need panels.
* Rooms in the basement sound tighter than attics as they are stationed in ground.
* Rooms with a triangle ceilings are hard to work with, you either have to use big panels on the ceiling or you have to know how the sound bounces depending on where you are.
* You can also use a triangle behind the microphone so it gets trapped in the corner. This can be made out of wood and it has to surround the microphone.
I have small panels randomized on the ceiling so I will have to take a look at what to change. Or my dad can build the wooden box around the new microphone.
A new microphone is fun and all, but the connection between the microphone and laptop is even more important. It's good that I invest in an interface too so it will improve the volume and hopefully will bring less noise than the one I have now! If I want to be professional I have to get a Neumann microphone, but that one will cost 1300 dollars.
For any tips on recording, sound and stuff I can check the Mix magazine.
When we had a break the supervisor explained things about expanding business to other countries. I don't have to stick around in the Netherlands, but can make deals with different countries like the supervisor does now. Sometimes depending on the currency you can make twice the amount of money so you have to choose countries carefully.
After the break the mastering phase happened and the supervisor showed me the EQ.
Never ever create a happy face in the EQ, this will never sound right. Always stay close to the main line and tweek it by a little. Numbers don't matter in EQ as every song requires something else. The only time when numbers matter is when you re-apply it to the same song.
The music stuff was done and I moved onto graphic design. Namely changing the album booklet for a band I had been working on before. I had to add in the bandmembers, but some lyrics got too long for the page.
The supervisor told meto change the font from 9 till 7, only I worried that would be too small.
We'll have to look into it. Also the title had to stand out so it could be around size 12, 13.
Later I had to work on the background. The supervisor wanted me to look for a symbol andwe chose a star, but it looked like crap and didn't fit. I had the task to find a new symbol and find a sort of cross looking thing. I put it in the middle, but also changed the background from black to havng a water pattern.
The supervisor told me to duplicate the symbols so I made them go around the page, but smaller.
The only thing that was missing were the initials of the band. I tried putting it 3/4 but it didn't look right so I moved it on the right bottom corner of the middle symbol.
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