Advance Studio Production Song II

ADVANCE STUDIO PRODUCTION Song II
So as my last student project here in SSR Jakarta, I decided to produce the Music
myself, along with the Audio Production. During the finest time of my life, a Band
in a time where I hadnt been born, has been making music that helped me
define what a true happiness really is, understood that a revolution was not only
done in gesture, and that psychedelia was not all about the medium (drugs and
marijuana) but the aim; where the values of mind, god, spirituality, universe,
trancendency, and duality converges to a certain point, a journey signified with
earnest purpose. So I really want to express the sole gratitude, honor and
(atleast try to) recreate the euphoric bliss, to a Band none other than The Beatles
(John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringgo Star) by making a
tribute song for them and the Syaelendra Studio which facilitate this recording
with great hospitality and comfort. Microphone available includes; Avantone CR14 ribbon microphone, Neumann U87 Large-Diaphragm microphone,
Sennheisers MD 421 dynamic.
The Music
It has taken so much from the number such as I am the Walrus, Yellow
Submarine, For the Benefit of Mr. Kite, and many other Beatles number. It has
string parts was influenced by Oasis and the Verve outros, and the guitar fill in,
which is more to Radiohead kind of riffs. The vocals, and rhythm guitar
progression was made ambiguously (im not much of a music guy)....and tried so
hard to make it beatles like. Its a 4/4, and tempo of 105 BPM with a change of 90
BPM on the outro. Starts From the Intro with a pace-build up until the Second
Verse, down tempo on the Bridge, and on the tempo change (the outro starts),
another build-up from there made by the guitar leads, then the string section.
The Studio
Syaelendra Studio has been supporting the music production industry since
1980s. It serves facility to tape multi-tracking, analog-digital recording, mixing
and mastering. It has a recording room, and a recording hall for orchestral
purposes. Equipped with Soundtracs Jade 48 Console. A flag-ship console
which has been discontinued on 1996. A notable engineer that have used this
console is Mike Tretow, which recorded a famous artist such as ABBA. Its an Inline console with automation feature (altough it was un-operational during my
sessions). Fixed routing, with normalled patchbay for sending your signals to
external processors. My favourites are the Solid State Logic G Compressor for
buss compression, API 2500 stereo compressor, and the Chandler Limited
Germanium Preamp. The Instrument available include a grand piano, a drum kit,
bass guitar, a digeridoo, a sitar, a djembe and few other notable instrument. The
DAW provided was Logic pro 9 and Protools HD 8, the analogue to digital
conversion was made possible by the XL logic AD/DA Converter. Monitoring is
equipped with Yamaha NS-10 and Vocal Studio Monitor.
Prologue
The Production of this song was made very close to the deadline. I had a
misconception of the project brief; that I have to produce two songs. This song
was produced by me, including the music, arrangement, recording, mixing and
mastering. This song recording and mixing was done at Syaelendra Advance
Studio in Jakarta. First time when I explore the chords, it was on March 17th. I
made the Arrangement along with the Rhythm guitar, Drum, and String Section
Guide on the same date, using Logic Pro X on the same date. I transposed the
Strings MIDI to a partiture/sheet music since I decided to record the String
Quartet Live (Classical Recording). On 28th of March I recorded The Electric Lead
Guitar/ Guitar Fill-in at The Syailendra Studio which took a shift. 3 days after, I
returned to Syaelendra Studio to multi-track the String Quartet piece, which
concist of a Cello (not sure if it was a contra), A viola, and 2 Violin instruments. I
recorded the Vocal, Rhythm guitar and the Drums back at the basic studio in
SSR Jakarta, because I ran out of complimentary shifts at the Syaelendra Studio.
And Finally the Samples and the SFX was done at the comfort and hospitality of
Ardys (My campus mate) House.
String Quartet Recording
To Start with, Ive never before recorded a classic instrument, as its my first time,
and my last semester at SSR Jakarta, I recklessly intend to record a live String
Quartet. The Sessionist I used here are first semester students from a renown
music college; Institut Kesenian Jakarta. Note that I hired and handed the
music sheets to them, two days before the recording session. So I did not expect
a clean live performance from the sessionist.
When the shift started, I went to the control room, and have the session set-up
through the DAW, which is Pro Tools HD 8 provided by the Syaelendra studio.
Then I set up the seats and partiture stand for the sessionist. Micing was done
after, which is nice, since the studio is able to provide the Microphone criteria for
my string recording needs. The the headphone amp for their monitoring. About
half and an hour after I was done, the all the string sessionist arrived at the same
time. I gave them 30 minutes to practice with the partiture together, while
playing with the song guide. By that time, Ive finished half of my alloted shift
time. I give them a five minute cigarette-break. There were no major setbacks,
except for a slight error in the partiture tab; which was easily fixed by my friend
who is a perfect-pitch and understands the sheet music. And because the
sessionist I hired are first-year student in their majored instrument, so there are
few playing mistakes, and made the recording a bit longer than I planned to. But
all in all, Im satisfied that we get to finish it on one shift.

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