Thursday, May 15, 2014

The Recording

Once we started recording, we expected to record the song in just a few takes. However, this was not the case. It took us a whole two hours and a solid 30 takes to complete the song. Between our editing, Thomas' joke, and Adam's mom's cookies, were frequently distracted to say the least. We ended up deciding to add a funk mid section which included a whistling horn section. However, this portion took a lot of work to get right. We ended the song with a gospel shout music section asking Ms. McKay to bless us with an "A", which she will, hopefully. Once we listened to our finished product, we realized all the things that needed to be tweaked and added. This is where the ambient mic is a problem. Had we recorded each track individually, we could just delete one persons track and they could start over, but because we all shared that mic for our instruments, if one person screws up, EVERYONE has to go back to the top and do it all over again.

1 comment:

  1. Your song is absolutely one of my favorite things to come out of Genius Hour. I'm so glad you gave it to me on disk! I know it's a lot of work to produce music, even if you are as talented at is as you all are. I definitely give the song an A, but the blog on the other hand . . .

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