Latest Blog Entries from Ventura Recording Connection Students

Sixteenth studio session - Posted by Aaron Matson on 2015-03-09

In this session i talked to michael about midi. We discussed the basics of the different virtual instruments and how long midi has been in use... Read More >>

Fifteenth studio session - Posted by Aaron Matson on 2015-02-24

For this weeks session michael gave me a lesson on time based effects. Most conventional effects are created with some kind of phasing or delay... Read More >>

Fourteenth studio session - Posted by Aaron Matson on 2015-02-24

This week i went did beat mapping for the band "Led Zeppagain" in the studio with Pro Tools. Michael showed me how to find the spikes in the waveform where the various drums in the kit hit, mainly the kick and snare... Read More >>

Thirteenth studio session - Posted by Aaron Matson on 2015-02-24

This week Michael walked me through the process of EQ and showed me the use of cutting out or boosting certain frequencies piece by piece in the mix without massively effecting the balance of the mix as a whole... Read More >>

Twelfth studio session - Posted by Aaron Matson on 2015-02-22

During these sessions i sat in on another mixing and vocal recording session, we further discussed panning different instruments... Read More >>