Audio Studies A - "Creative Project"

Drum Odyssey

Jake Taylor

4’55

The material for the assignment was recorded into an MBox, using various percussive like samples which overlayed a percussion piece. The samples included a heat sink, wallet chain jingling, and other percussive like sounds. On top of that MIDI sounds were utilized as they provided the best samples for elements that couldn’t be recorded manually.

A percussive piece was performed on the EMU drum kit, recorded and edited to have the recorded samples placed where desired. The quality of the recordings didn’t vary so much, however some samples did contain clicks, which had to be edited out within PeakLE software.

Within ProTools, the drum tracks were sent via a bus to a Reverb Aux, this created a very large like feel to the recording and made it sound more real. Stereo panning was also utilised to achieve this effect. To demonstrate knowledge within automation within ProTools, mainly volume swells were used, as well fade ins and outs to keep the flow of rhythm moving and not too staggered. Plugin automation was also use on the Reverb Aux track.

MixDown

Mastered