Barcelona 2019
2019
Recording Session at Q Division
Everything is Waiting For You
I Want You Back
Sisi Ni Moja
When The Earth Stands Still
Shady Grove
Night and Day
I Want You Back-more choir, less soloist
When the Earth Stands Still- oy vey version
Spring Concert- Video and Audio
Everything is Waiting For You
I Want You Back
Sisi Ni Moja
When The Earth Stands Still
Shady Grove
Night and Day
I Want You Back-more choir, less soloist
When the Earth Stands Still- oy vey version
Spring Concert- Video and Audio
2018
Recording Session at The Record Co.
Recording session at The Record Co., June 14, 2016
Adoramus Te
Book Report (compressed) Book Report (regular) Life is a Stage Lo, How a Rose Nearer, My God, to Thee Nearer, My God, to Thee (with reverb) 2015 |
Why do recording session recordings sound different from live recording?Stuff You Do To A Recording That Ms A Learned How To Do (sort of) This Summer:
1) Panning. Panning is where you assign each microphone a location for where will sound like it was coming from. If you have surround sound speakers, you will hear the bass is usually coming from just in front of you, with one group on the right and one group on the left, the middle part coming from your left slightly behind you, and the high part from your right slightly behind you. I don't have surround sound speakers, and you probably don't either. But spacing out where all the microphones are "located" makes everything sound clearer anyway. 2) Volume. Adjust the volumes of mic's so that everybody sounds more or less the same volume. 3) Fix stuff. If I had known more about how this worked, I probably would have done more takes of some of the songs. For the most part, you can pick stuff by copying and pasting, just like in Word. Some recordings weren't fixable. (Sorry, Iz Dolu. <cue sad bagpipes.>) 4) EQ Basically, when you use electronic recording or amplifying a equipment like microphones, they pick up all of the frequencies and sounds being made. Some of those frequencies sound bad. In real life, you don't really notice them. But when amplified by equipment, they are yucky (technical term.) So you go turn up the volume really high on each particular bandwidth, until you find the one that sounds terrible. Then you turn the volume down really low on that bandwidth instead, and it magically sounds way better! 5) Normalize Music today is loud. That is because it is been normalized. When you read about old recordings being remastered, one of the things they're doing is making the recording louder, to make it match the recordings that are made today. Especially for choral music, normalizing is kind of a bummer as it would take out almost all dynamic variation. I did include a normalized and non-normalized recording of book report, so you can hear the difference. Making these was time consuming, and hard. But they are pretty cool to have. Hope you enjoy them! |