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Joe Kepich
Past two days I have been able to be in the studio. It's been really awesome and I'm grateful for the consistency. I'll start off by sharing my experiences from yesterday, May 12th. I was fortunate enough to be able to leave work early and head to the studio so I could sit in on a piano session. So far there havent been any sessions involving a piano that i could sit in on so my mentor suggested it and I made it work with leaving my job a bit early. The artist, Bo or Boris came in and did about 9 pieces of work in a 3 hour session. I think it was the last lesson or maybe the one before it, but my mentor had told me that the piano was a really interesting instrument to record. With all the variables involved with it. Not only mics and mic placement, but the way the artist plays as well. The setup invovled two condenser mics. one mic placed above the lower strings and one mic placed above the higher strings sort of closer to the hammers and with a little bit of an angle to it for the perfect taste( so to speak). Which turned out really awesome and the spread of the sound was near perfect. My Mentor was also stoked on it because he had mentioned he had never gotten the sound he wanted on the in house piano before until yesterday.
Today, May 13th, I got to sit in on another session. This one was with a hip hop artist by the name of Billard. It was cool because i had already sat in on a session with him before so i had remembered him and he rememebered me. He was only there for a couple hours and only cut a few hooks on like two or three songs. Still, i am amazed by his consistency and how fluent my mentor is with protools. I hope to accomplish that level of experience some day.
Todays lesson was chapter 7 which is all about tracking. Basically it goes into how to plan for an upcoming session, prepare yourself, the live room/booths, and the mics the best you can, How to act with artists and how to keep your cool while troubleshooting if a problem should arise during a session. To me a lot of this stuff in this chapter is not-so common sense. By that I mean that it is common sense to people like me who understand music and recording but not so common sense to the average person. You can never be too prepared when it comes to stuff especially when its something you love and want to be really good at. Like recording awesome music for artist of all kinds like I do myself.
