{"id":1891,"date":"2021-04-29T15:44:25","date_gmt":"2021-04-29T14:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digitalspace.bradfordcollege.ac.uk\/10626680\/?page_id=1891"},"modified":"2021-05-07T10:45:19","modified_gmt":"2021-05-07T09:45:19","slug":"week-five-evaluation-26th-april-2nd-may-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/digitalspace.bradfordcollege.ac.uk\/10626680\/week-five-evaluation-26th-april-2nd-may-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Week Five Evaluation (26th April-2nd May)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-soundcloud wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-soundcloud wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Fast Elevator (single one) Draft Five 2nd May by Abi Swift\" width=\"840\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F1041130393&#038;show_artwork=true&#038;maxwidth=840&#038;maxheight=1000&#038;dnt=1&#038;secret_token=s-PFw2Zd1tVC7\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/digitalspace.bradfordcollege.ac.uk\/10626680\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/279\/2021\/05\/image-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1897\" width=\"861\" height=\"484\" srcset=\"https:\/\/digitalspace.bradfordcollege.ac.uk\/10626680\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/279\/2021\/05\/image-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/digitalspace.bradfordcollege.ac.uk\/10626680\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/279\/2021\/05\/image-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/digitalspace.bradfordcollege.ac.uk\/10626680\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/279\/2021\/05\/image-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/digitalspace.bradfordcollege.ac.uk\/10626680\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/279\/2021\/05\/image-1200x675.png 1200w, https:\/\/digitalspace.bradfordcollege.ac.uk\/10626680\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/279\/2021\/05\/image.png 1366w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Overall, this song has seen great improvements over the past week, from adding new instruments, solos and even some vocal harmonies. The brass I mentioned last week has been added to the track and arranged in a way I am really happy with! The harmonies were recorded by Meg (another music student) and they came out really well given that there was some background noise I was worried about as there was a group playing in the live room, but this was hardly picked up on. I then arranged these vocals and added some effects like reverb until we move on to mixing them fully with the rest of the track, which I plan to do next week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Progressions And Strengths<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since recording the main vocals last week and then getting some ideas for the harmonies to go over that, I have been excited to get these ideas finalised and recorded into the track. So, on Monday, I asked Meg to record these vocals so I can get them laid down and perfected, ready for the mixing stage next week. After recording the vocals, I arranged them to make sure they were all in time and where I wanted them to be in the song, then moved onto adding some simple effects like reverb to make them airy and allow their presence to be shown a bit more without bringing the volume up too much. I also paned the high and low harmonies slightly away from each other, leaving the middle harmony in the middle to give them a bit more depth and wideness. We recorded these vocals in the control room, using the same microphone I used for the main vocals (sE Titan). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/digitalspace.bradfordcollege.ac.uk\/10626680\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/279\/2021\/05\/image-2-1024x210.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1908\" width=\"802\" height=\"164\" srcset=\"https:\/\/digitalspace.bradfordcollege.ac.uk\/10626680\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/279\/2021\/05\/image-2-1024x210.png 1024w, https:\/\/digitalspace.bradfordcollege.ac.uk\/10626680\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/279\/2021\/05\/image-2-300x62.png 300w, https:\/\/digitalspace.bradfordcollege.ac.uk\/10626680\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/279\/2021\/05\/image-2-768x158.png 768w, https:\/\/digitalspace.bradfordcollege.ac.uk\/10626680\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/279\/2021\/05\/image-2-1200x246.png 1200w, https:\/\/digitalspace.bradfordcollege.ac.uk\/10626680\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/279\/2021\/05\/image-2.png 1218w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 802px) 85vw, 802px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>As well as recording the final harmony takes this week, the brass player also got back to my email I sent last week, and they had finished my requests, which I was extremely happy with and it couldn&#8217;t have come at a better time. I added all these tracks at home so I can have time in College to get other work done. First, I got the parts into the right position in the track and listened back to make sure all three melody parts were in time with each other. I then removed any of the file parts where they weren&#8217;t playing to ensure I don&#8217;t get any unwanted background noise. This took quite a while so I didn&#8217;t manage to add any effects to these yet, but I plan to when I start to mix the song. I had a problem with adding these files at first as when I added them, they seemed to warp themselves; I didn&#8217;t notice this at first so I thought the files were wrong or corrupted, but eventually, I figured out that they warped themselves, but I&#8217;m not sure why this would have happened! I panned the brass in a similar way to the vocals, Put the flugelhorn 25% to the left, and the Harmon mute trumpet 25% to the left to give it some spread and a wider sound. I kept the sax in the centre as I want this to be the main instrument to play the melody, with the other two acting as backing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/digitalspace.bradfordcollege.ac.uk\/10626680\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/279\/2021\/05\/image-3-1024x171.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1913\" width=\"850\" height=\"142\" srcset=\"https:\/\/digitalspace.bradfordcollege.ac.uk\/10626680\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/279\/2021\/05\/image-3-1024x171.png 1024w, https:\/\/digitalspace.bradfordcollege.ac.uk\/10626680\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/279\/2021\/05\/image-3-300x50.png 300w, https:\/\/digitalspace.bradfordcollege.ac.uk\/10626680\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/279\/2021\/05\/image-3-768x128.png 768w, https:\/\/digitalspace.bradfordcollege.ac.uk\/10626680\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/279\/2021\/05\/image-3-1200x200.png 1200w, https:\/\/digitalspace.bradfordcollege.ac.uk\/10626680\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/279\/2021\/05\/image-3.png 1229w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>As well as the main melody on the brass, I was given some files containing licks on the Harmon mute trumpet and a whole solo on the tenor sax! I mentioned in the email that I would be happy with just a main melody but some licks would be brilliant if they had time; receiving all of this was unexpected and I&#8217;m really grateful for it. Like I did with the melodies, I lined up where I wanted them to play, then cut out any areas where there is no instrument playing to ensure there is no background noise. I really like the call and response effect that the Harmon mute trumpet does alongside the vocals, and I sliced up the sax solo a little bit to experience where I wanted different melodies to occur and so it sounded a little more in time, but not too much as I wanted to keep that human feel. I then added an EQ to the trumpet to remove some harsh high and rumbling low frequencies, and I put a bell EQ around 600kHz to boost this frequency. I also put some reverb on the saxophone as this was mentioned in their email back to me and it sounds great!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Improvements<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The main thing I need to focus on now is mixing the track. I have done research on different mixing techniques before I go into the actual process here: <a href=\"https:\/\/digitalspace.bradfordcollege.ac.uk\/10626680\/mixing-and-mastering-techniques\/\">https:\/\/digitalspace.bradfordcollege.ac.uk\/10626680\/mixing-and-mastering-techniques\/<\/a>. This is so I have a good idea of the different techniques, why they are important and how I can apply them to my tracks. For example, I need to balance the volume of my brass section as right now it is very loud and fights with some other melodies in the song. I also need to add compression to a lot of the channels so I can normalize the volume of some instruments, like the vocals and harmonies. I have already started on panning, but I think I could experiment with this a little more and look at panning different instruments to more unconventional areas, and perhaps even make more use of the ping pond delay and auto-pan effects, similar to what I did with the jingly sound that comes with the riser. I also need to make more use of sends as this will lower my CPU usage, which is currently peaking at about 35% in some places!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Targets For Next Week<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>-Get this track mixed fully so I can move onto mixing my second single.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>-If I get my second single mixed as well, I need to start researching and thinking about mastering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overall, this song has seen great improvements over the past week, from adding new instruments, solos and even some vocal harmonies. The brass I mentioned last week has been added to the track and arranged in a way I am really happy with! The harmonies were recorded by Meg (another music student) and they came &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/digitalspace.bradfordcollege.ac.uk\/10626680\/week-five-evaluation-26th-april-2nd-may-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Week Five Evaluation (26th April-2nd May)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":273,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1891","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalspace.bradfordcollege.ac.uk\/10626680\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalspace.bradfordcollege.ac.uk\/10626680\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalspace.bradfordcollege.ac.uk\/10626680\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalspace.bradfordcollege.ac.uk\/10626680\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/273"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalspace.bradfordcollege.ac.uk\/10626680\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1891"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/digitalspace.bradfordcollege.ac.uk\/10626680\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1920,"href":"https:\/\/digitalspace.bradfordcollege.ac.uk\/10626680\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1891\/revisions\/1920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalspace.bradfordcollege.ac.uk\/10626680\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}