Music Technology Forum: Week 4 - Band Recordings

This week in Music Technology Forum, we talked about the next field trip we were going to have. This field trip will show us all about CD production. This field trip will show us how CD's are manufactured; different techniques they use to feature a CD, and all the necessary ingredients in the recipe of CD making. I am looking forward to this excursion to learn more about CD manufacturing.

We then listened to a few class members' band recordings. We first listened to Lisa's recordings. I quite liked the end product. The band had rather quirky vocals, which worked well with the grungey/punk style they had going. The guitars were at a good level for the style being played. Everything sounded clean and well mic'd.

We heard Simon's mix. The bass did sound rather boomy, but I reckon it worked well. The acoustic guitar sounded very flowy and clean; very relaxing. The voice was smooth and clean. The mic'ing techniques for Simon's mix worked well for the type of music being played.

We listened to Jake's mix. The songs being played were very vocal driven songs, and the vocals were left out, so I believed that was the main thing lacking in the mix. The electric guitar's were sounding very clean. Could easily tell what the song was by the guitars straight away. Drum's were close mic'd, giving some good impact shots, although the drummer was intoxicated and maybe missed the drums on some hits. Was a good sounding mix.

We finally listened to my mix. I noticed straight away that all instruments sounded very far away. Piano was sounding ok, and the micing on the snare drum was rather delicious. In essence, my mix lacked impact, but the piano player gave it that extra edge.