blog 15 - Posted on 2014-10-26 by Benjamin Cown

Last weeks lesson taught me about reverb and delay. I already had a pretty good understanding of what they are and how they affect a sound from previous expierience playing guitar, but i learned alot about the different types of delay and reverb and how they were originaly produced. My mentor showed me all they deleay and reverb plugins he likes to use on the studio computer when I went in for my lesson.

I saw two sesions when I went into the studio to intern. The first one was a vocal tracking session for a R&B/pop sounding artist. The artsit was not a very good singer and the engineer/ Tom, had to take many tracks of the same chorus or verse so that he could take the best peices from each take and put it together on one track. Even after he did that, we spent a good portion of the session trying to determine if parts were sharp or flat and adjusting them accordingly.

The seccond session was just a radio edit of a rap song that needed alot of work to get it on the radio. It was a really cool track that i enjoyed listening to. I noticed that tom used the stock protools plugin, vari-fi, alot to "bleep" out some naughty words. On the "N" word, he used the "slow down" funtion on the first syllable, then the "speed up" function on the seccond syllable with vari-fi which made it sound pretty cool.