This is my skills audit and i will do another one at the end of the project to see how far i had developed through the project

Action plan:

Week 1:In the first week i will write my proposal and complete my skill audit this is very important because i will be able to see how i have improved through out the project so hit makes the task more important

Week 2: For the second week i will be creating my drum kit which i will be making out of tins and things i can find like that and also in this week i will try to get a drum patten that i can play guitar over the top

Week 3: This week i will recored my drums that i have made doing this i will need to book studio time if i wish to recored in the studio and i will also need to learn which microphones i will need to use and where to put them.

Week 4: This week i will have written the guitar solo that with sit on top of the drum track and will make it more interesting i will have to book more studio time how ever it won’t need to be as long in there as it will be a lot more simple also i will need to learn how to get the tone on my guitar that i want for this i could watch videos or experiment for myself

Week 5: This week i will be mixing my song for this i will have to book a room just so i can play it out loud because if i mix with head phones on it will not sound good and won’t sound like it did also this week i will do my skills audit again to see how i have developed through this project

Week 6: This week i will just over look everything and make sure its all in order

Week 2-

For my guitar i will use a NM 184 for my guitar playing af i believe it will be best suited as it is very all rounded and “It captures virtually any instrument with amazing complexity and depth of sound.Newman (2016)-“Newman site. of i believe i will get the best sound from this through the amp the amp ill use is”.

The guitar i will use is an epiphany casino coupe this carries a very sharp clean sound through the bridge pick up and i may add slight distortion as it may make it more interesting guitar sound.

For the drum sound i may use a lot smaller version of an x and y technique as there won’t be much area to cover but i may need more than just one microphone over so i can get an even sound for my home made kit which i will make before the 3rd week

i will create the guitar solo beforee the second week as well as I’m in the studio on Tuesday in the 3rd Week

for my drum kit i will use a  Neumann km184 and i will prop it over the top using a microphone stand this means every thing i play will be even and nothing will be louder than anything else.

Also in the week i managed to write the guitar solo:

For this i used a slight chorus effect and used a way pedal to give it this sound i will build the drum beat sound around this and may use harsher drum sounds to compliment the guitar solo over the top. I also used a way pedal as it gives it a psychedelic 60s sound

Reflection:

this week i had written the guitar solo and found out which sort of sound i wanted into the guitar part so next week ill work out how to get the drum sound to complement that of the guitar so next week i need to

-Research how to create my drum sound

-what microphone i’ll use

-how i’ll mix my sounds

Week 3

i have been researching how other people have made drum kits and what items they used i put this one as the the main objects that he is using iu will be able to make and recreate that sound i was and i was also looking at the way he recorded it and he had a microphone down by his foot which i will do and from i can see just one overhead microphone recording it all when i do it i may have just one as well and my kit won’t be very big so i can just use one and get an even sound through the whole kit

i will also put the sound onto logic so i can edit them and add effects afterwards and can make it sound exactly like i what it to and if i want to rearrange it then and mix it once in logic.

for microphones I will be using an SM58 as it “makes most vocalists sound great by adding just the right amount of bass & treble, & dropping out just a hint of mid range.”- Ollie Mason explains (2018) which would give me the best sound to create my drum sound then will put into logic so I can EQ the sounds so I can get them to fit the track.

The sounds i will be recording are a shaker, clap, food hitting the floor and the drop of a bottle lid to give it a high end sound in there i believe this will be fairly easy to recored as there is nothing to difficult once I’ve recorded that i can put everything into logic and rearrange in it and create my own percussion sound.

relection

I focused well on the creation of making a drum kit and after doing this reasearch i am doubting weather it will be the most effective way of creating a preccusion sound so i will experiment with more

Week 4

after week 3 i have seen how difficult and impractical it would be to create a drum kit and recored it so I have decided i will still use the idea but i will recored all the different sounds the put into logic and created a beat in logic with all the sounds. This means i will recored this sounds with one beat or a small sequence so when i come to edit it it will make it easier.

I created a very quick example on how i want my sound to sound like and how i want it to sound as i can now try to get this sound from my drums beat and when i recored the guitar sound i can mainly just use this as an example to base my track once i recored it and i plan to make my track about 1.5 mins as I’m not putting vocals into it it could start to get dull if it goes on longer than that.

I feel making a rough idea on logic was a very good idea as it didn’t take long and gives me more of a sense of direction with where I want my project to go and sound like.

https://soundcloud.com/felixcleevemusic/beat-example-for-project

 

Week 5

This week i will be in the studio to create my track.

during being in the studio i came up with this riff which i will put as the main part of my track however it doesn’t go along with the plan i had for the track but i will experiment with it to see how it turns out while i created this i put in a very standard kit so i could develop they guitar part

once i had sorted the guitar part i started to think of a guitar solo which i would use an a minor scale to go with the riff I will also recored this over thechorus so instred of vocals over the chorus I can have a st solo over the top

once i had recorded that i took the drums out and got a sm58 microphone and started to try to get a drum beat that would fit the one i had already for this i got the simple beat from hitting the chair and recording it then i hit the table to give the higher notes and put in a shaker while listening to the tract so i is all in time. also I will mix the song in the 6th week however I can only do this once I have recorded the vocals.

at the end of this week i was at tthis stage:with the whole instramental side of it if i have enoughtime during week 6 i will get jack in to recored vocals if not i will have to keep it as just the instramental. however me and jack hawkins have written lyrics to and will recored  at some point.

week 6

this week i will try to get the vocals completed if there isn’t enough time as it is the final week I will attempt to replace it with a guitar part to show the melody also this week I will do an evaluation and a skills audit

from this you can see how along the project my logic skills have improved since the start of the project this is as i was importing

evaluation

in my overall evaluation I will be looking at where I went wrong in my project what changed the project and what went well so I understand what went well so I can replicate it.

throughout the project I had many ideas of how I wanted the project to turn out the original one was the sympathy for the devil idea where I wanted to recreate o bongo sound with a homemade drum kit I put a lot of work into this idea and for the majority though this is what I would do however when ego into the studio I came up with this riff on guitar by using the very basic drum beat on logic after I had done this I came up with the chords and put it together and created the rough sound of how I wanted it. so once I had got into the studio my plans and ideas began to develop and change this may of been a god thing in the fact I had more realistic ideas of what I could machine while in the studio also may of been bad as I had spent so much time researching ideas that were now less useful and I had put in a lot of research towards the original project

so for this I tried to use as much information that I had already found out so my microphone research was which I could still use and did later on while recording the precussion for my track i still used a sm58 which worked very well for recording the objects and gave very ballanced sound.

overall i was very happy how this project turned out i feel when i go into my fmp i should do more preperation at the begining so i dont waste my time reasearching something i wont follow up it paractically however i i was still able to use alot of that research