Recording/Mixing
This is a selection of work that I worked as recording or mixing engineer on. For synched-to-video work, check out this section; for compositions (including video game compositions), look here.
This session was fully documented, in accordance with recording studio practice. I used Chico State's API 1608 Modular Console for live tracking and most of the recording.
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It's All Part of the Process, DynamicsI had the opportunity to record the local funk/hip-hop band Dynamics in early fall of 2011; the project was a big step for me because not only was it going to be my first recording project after my internship, this was going to be the first project where I was the sole engineer.
After my summer of interning with Radiostar Studios however, I met the challenge head on, and was proud of how smoothly recording went. Drums, bass, guitars, and scratch vocals were all recorded in the first four hour session. Horns took a little longer, but the extra time allowed me to experiment. The band allowed me to re arrange the piece into what you hear now. For example, the second verse was the same as the first originally, and the piano part in the middle was all my doing |
The Shawshank RedemptionAt the end of fall 2011, I was in the last semester of recording classes I would have at CSUC, and I was tasked with a “film script” assignment. We were given a choice of several scripts, many of them early drafts of the final film version, and asked to select one scene or a handful of scene’s totaling around six minutes and re-create it by recording voice actors and sound effects in the studio, and without video.
Many of the sound effects here were recorded in the studio (foley), but just as many were found from one of two sound effects libraries I had at my disposal. The music, I’m proud to say, I wrote and recorded myself. Naoko Terakado played the piano, and you might recognize her from Elegy of the Falling Leaf. The music was meant to imitate the soft, sad, contemplative piano that Thomas Newman used through most of the movie. One last thing we were required to do for the project was to mix 30 and 60 second trailers. So, here is the 30 second trailer I did:
The piece was mixed through an API 1608 console and written to Peak Pro 7. This is of course an MP3 rendering (which is terrible), but I do have higher resolution recordings, as well as different mixes (sans music, sans dialogue, etc).
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This project ate up more of my time than any other I’ve ever worked on, mostly because I had to take on the roles of script editor, recording engineer, mixing engineer, foley artist, sound designer, composer, arranger, and even voice actor (for a few small roles).
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Songwriting
This section is just a bit more for fun; this is the sort of thing I do in my spare time. Everyone wants to be a rockstar, don't they? I'm no exception. Here is an example of my songwriting/producing capabilities.
Fortune Falling, Fortune FallingI wrote this song several years ago, with the intent to perform it with my band of the same name. While we did perform it several times, we never recorded it together. For this recording, I arranged everything, performed all the bass and guitar parts, and programmed all the synths myself too.
The voice was recorded in the CSU Chico Electronic Music Studio using a Neuman TLM 103, and yes thats me singing. The drums and piano are sampled (as I don't have that kind of space in my office), and the guitar and bass were done DI, so really, this is more showing off my ability to arrange and mix. But hey, you didn't hear where I cut between guitar takes did you? Thought not.
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