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Matthew Lutchman
im back! after travelling around europe, scandinavia and russia for a month i am pretty wiped out, but very excited to be able to make and record music again! i was awaiting my copy of pro tools and my scarlett in the week before i left, but it ended up coming a few days after i left. so the first thing i did when i got back (aside from sleep for a day) was open the scarlett and go through the installation of pro tools. at first it wasnt working and there were a million error messages, but eventually i got it to work. i was so excited that i went ahead and spent the day recording a song of my own. i first put guitar down to a click track. since i dont have any mics to mic my drums, i used the beatbox on a little yamaha keyboard to make a drum track. then i layed down a bass track, some guitar overdubs and a few keyboard parts. it was a lot of fun to try different plugins as i went along and decided what sounded best for the song.
for lesson 10, joey and i went over the questions and then, since i brought my laptop, i showed joey my song. he seemed very amused and was impressed that i jumped right into recording on my own. for my other session that week i got to mix a jazz band that joey had recorded. i like when he lets me mix and then does his own thing. i appreciated the fact that he trusts me with his equipment. he is always just an earshot away so i can throw a million questions at him as i think of them.
lesson 11 was also a fairly simple lesson. plugins RULE. since i ever started playing guitar i always loved to sit around with effects pedals and see how i can change the sound. i know i am going to enjoy learing how to use plugins effectively. i have zero experience with things like eq, limiters, and compressors so i am anxious to learn. joey also showed me a 45 movie on youtube that lays out all the difference from pro tools 10 to 11. he also showed me a plugin called melodyn single note modification which is able to break chords apart into single notes and then change the pitch or time of just one (or 2 or 3 or all) note. what blew my mind was that even after modifying a chord, or a whole passage, it did not sound fake at all. it sounded like that was what the guitar player actually played. amazing. the other session this week was another mixing lab. i wanted to do more jazz so i worked with a session from a jazz guitarist from here in philly who was playing with a drummer, an upright bassist, and a keyboardist. all great musicians. joey warned me that lesson 13 is pretty hard so i guess well see how much i understand!
