Friday, 22 April 2016

Unit 48 - Brief 3 - Recording A Pop Song Cover

Track list:
Instrument/part of instrument/mic or DI/name of possible performer:
Track 1

Electric Guitar - DI
Track 2

Rhythm Guitar - DI
Track 3

Bass Guitar – DI
Track 4

Drums – High Hat – Samson C02
Track 5

Drums – Snare – Samson DMC 100
Track 6

Drums – Left Tom – Samson DMC 100
Track 7

Drums – Right Tom – Samson DMC 100
Track 8

Drums – Floor Tom – Samson DMC 100
Track 9

Drums – Bass Drum – AKG D112
Track 10

Drums – Left Room – AKG C1000S
Track 11

Drums – Right Room – AKG C1000S
 Track 12

Vocals – NTA3

Recording Schedule for Green Day - American Idiot


Session 1
Instrument –  Electric Guitar
Date – Thursday 12th November
Time – 11:20 - 2:00
Performer – Jack Bates
Crew – David Cuff
             Callum Hope

Session 2
Instrument – Rhythm Guitar
                     Bass Guitar
Date – Thursday 19th November
Time –11:20 - 2:00
Performer – Nathan Fisher
                    Callum Hope
Crew – David Cuff
             Callum Hope

Session 3
Instrument – Drums
Date – Monday 23rd November
Time – 8:30 - 10:50
Performer – Lachlan Hope
Crew – David Cuff
             Callum Hope

Session 4
Instrument – Vocals
Date – Thursday 26th November
Time – 11:20 - 2:00
Performer – Emily Twist
Crew – David Cuff
             Callum Hope

The Original Track



This is the Original Track From Green Day and it was released in 2004 as a sing and the song is composed of four chords, the I-IV-V-VII progression, while the chorus and solo share the IV-I-V-I progression. One of the recording techniques Green Day used was matching guitar tremolo swells to tempo maps

Green Day - American Idiot - Evaluation

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I chose to do a direct cover of Green Days American Idiot. I had chose this song because I knew people that could play it. I also felt that This would be a good song to record as it isn't that hard to play.

Break Down of the tracks

Bass Guitar

This is the bass guitar I recorded through DI. DI stands for Direct input and this is the way I have chosen to record the Bass Guitar. This was due to the fact that it is easier to record and produces a better quality sound. That Bass guitar in my recording Sounds a little bit quiet in the full recording so I will be making sure that when I mix and master the track to make sure that the Bass Guitar comes through.

Rhythm Guitar

The Rhythm guitar was also recorded through DI. I did this to get a cleaner sound from the guitar because I don't have to worry about the acoustics of the Recording studio to use a microphone I can just record it straight from the guitar. This also makes it faster and easier to record the track. Recording the track this way however it is very difficult to capture the reverb of the guitar unless you are very skilled and have the correct plugins.

Lead Guitar

DI was also used to record this track as well, this is because it is an electric Guitar so I could use DI to record this instrument. It meant that it was fast to record. It is just one cable that goes from the instrument to the mixing desk so that means that there is less things that can go wrong when recording through DI because you don't have a microphone or more cables that could be broken or defective.

Hi-Hat

For the Hi-Hat I used the Samson C02 which is in the drum kit specific microphone set for the studio and it is specifically for recording the Hi-Hat.

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