Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Sunday, September 09, 2007
Real Life Sux?
Friday, September 07, 2007
What is it that I do exactly?
Usually the reply I get would be along the line of, "Oh so ya like a DJ at a club?" or "Oh you specialize in DSP(Digital Signal Processor)?"
Well nope, I'm none of the above. So today I'll show you what I do exactly. A picture (or sound rather) is worth a thousand words rite?
Original and Unedited portion of a band I recorded
Mp3 of the original file
Same part edited
Mp3 of the edited file
I basically did a couple of things. First there are 2 vocal parts and they are not in sync nor are they in pitch. So I edited it until they are pretty much in time although I did not sync them perfectly cuz in real life it would be almost impossible to do it, gotta have some realism too :p
Next up I used a great software call Melodyne to tune the pitch. Notice how I used Melodyne to elongate the vocal at the very end of the clip!
Every time I do something like this, I will end up talking to some of my friends. I've a number of friends who are professional sessionist or gigging around the world, and a lot of them put in countless of hours and years of hard work to perfect their craft.
I'm a musician myself and I've never believed in using a software to make up for something you can't do, like in the above example, I feel that musicians now a days are not spending enough time to perfect their trade. I get people who would ask me questions like, "but you can fix it during mixdown stage rite? Lets move on to the next part..."
If you are a professional, shouldn't you be spending time perfecting your skillz and not relying on the engineer to perfect it for you?
Wednesday, September 05, 2007
Rick Rubin
-Rick Rubin
I've always been a big fan of Rick Rubin and the artist he has worked with. A real music Guru.
Do check out this article on him.