Final Thoughts

Final Thoughts

I would say the overall the experience of recording a whole band was stressful yet beneficial at the same time. Finding the band wasn't hard thanks to Jonathan but getting them together on the same date before the dateline was. We manage to find a date that suits everyones schedule and we manage to record all three songs in one day. First, we came early and took about 2 hours before the set time to set up the project and mics. Markings are placed on the floor to indicate which way to face and the band members' placements. We had refreshments ready especially the vocalist. Setting up was the easy part, the hard part was getting the band members ready for each take and get them to listen to our instructions. For the first song, we ran into a huge issue where we saved the project as file instead of project, and when we opened the project to check the audio, it was all gone but luckily we manage to find the audio files and saved it as project instead. We don't know why this happens, not only with our group but the other group had this problem as well. What I learned from this experience is that you always have to be ready for anything, have a plan ready and come prepared, always have mic options too incase the ones we picked does not work out, always listen to sounds that stick out during the recording so we can fix it right away, communicating with the musicians is key, write down as much information as possible and finally make the musicians feel at home so that they can play at their absolute best. 

Project File 

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1zd4qNSXIgL_oDk5p3oo-sSXRSeJrj-tZ?usp=sharing