INTRODUCTION-
My name is Lars Harrison and I play drums in a band called The Obscurities. I have been playing drums for 5 years and am working on my grade 8. I decided to do this project because I wanted to progress my band The Obscurities and having a produced EP would be an effective way to do this.
In this project I will be collaborating with two other students, Cain Watson and Sonny Lumsden, to write, record, and release an EP. The target for this project is to have a fully produced 4 track EP that we can release under our band name ‘The Obscurities’.
This is my initial idea for the final project, this was before me, Sonny and Cain (singer and bassist of The Obscurities) had done any real planning or preparation. However, we still had discussed what roles each of us would have. At the very start we knew that I would take care of the recording side, Cain would be in charge of promotion, and Sonny would be in charge of the songwriting.
The feedback that I got from my tutors was on how I would actually record the band when I am performing, in which my response was to have someone in the control room to hit record. Another piece of feedback was on why we would be using Harry to mix our tracks. My reasoning for this was to have somebody unbiased to mix our tracks so that we can have the best possible sound and so that nobody’s ego’s would get in the way. Also, some advice from my tutors was to get second opinion from another student on the mixing process to again get the best sound we can for the EP.