View All Students
Kyle Ellis
It’s been a few weeks since my last post due to the holidays. However, I’m excited to say that I brought my first vocal artist into the studio who is my friend, Heidi Arcilla. We spent two hours recording the vocals on the track we are working on together, which is going to sound amazing. I was able to see how recording worked with the singer in the recording room and I was in the control room. We recorded through a Manley Reference microphone, which I am told costs approximately $3,500. All of the analog gear of the studio was very foreign to me as I’ve pretty much only worked in the digital realm thus far. The routing of the cables to the sound board, to the computer, to the built-in compressors on the deck made everything look complicated, but I will learn it as I keep doing it.
Last Saturday I got together with my instructor, Alex, where we comp’d the vocals in ProTools and then used Melodyne, which is a professional vocal processing VST, to tune the vocals and align the timing of the vocal harmonies to the main vocals. After using both ProTools and Melodyne, I’m seriously considering whether to add both to my arsenal of tools as ProTools seems very efficient when comping. The crossfader function also seamlessly switches between different audio clips, which is a must have. On top of that, Melodyne’s ability to correct audio imperfections makes the singer sound perfect. Alex stated Heidi sings really well as we did not have to clean up that much and she is on-point a lot of the time, but still, even the small changes we did were essential to having a professional sounding track that I have been unable to achieve until this course. I am looking forward to finishing this one and putting it out for the world to hear!
