First Recording Experience
Hi Friends,
I just went home from recording session. It was a really great experience. So here’s the story.
Today, my group (studio singers) scheduled for recording in our classroom, with help from Lothar Bandermann, but on Monday, Roger (our instructor) changed the plan and so we did our recording in the studio. The studio is in Sunnyvale. It is a pretty small studio, but decent enough to record our group.
Hmm so ok, here’s the think. Today is a really HOT day. I think it could reach 100F, pueehhhh and can you imagine how hot it was in the studio. REALLY HOT!!!, and we were sweating during the recording.
We managed to record two songs, Nothin’ in the world and Naima. We spent about two hours to record these two songs. Hmmm overall, I think if we spend more hours, we could a better result, but I think it’s good enough. I believed, Roger will edit the recording. So you know, we have nine singers and nine microphones. Each microphones become its own track in the computer, so we can edit the voice of each person (make it louder, softer, higher, lower, etc) Thank to Technology. So after the editing, I believed we will sound really good, hmm not as good as professional group of course, but good enough for a group that has been together for about 11 weeks.
Hmm this was my first experience. I’m pretty amazed to see all the microphones, computers, sound system, etc. At first, I was afraid to sing loud, because this was a recording session not normal rehearsal, but after we had warm-up, it was ok, at least I can get the feeling to sing in the studio and recording. Oh YEAH!!! and of course you have to wear a headphone during the recording, so you can hear the voice of each part. It was totally different from normal rehearsal. Usually you hear the sound live, but in the recording session, you hear it in the headphone. It could help you to hear the chord better, but it could be nasty too if your notes only half step from the other voices. It was good though.
So if you are wondering what my group will sound like, you can see us in front of De Anza College library at about 6.30 PM. My group will perform in the dance show. We will sing Nothin’ In The World and Miss Otis Regrets. We also going to have our concert (previous post).
So come and see us!!!
