Reflective Journal 17

Woah, it sure was a mess recording demo#2. Well this was because there was a rush of time and also limited resources since everyone in my class had booked the rooms on Friday, Monday, And Tuesday. Thankful we agreed on a system to share the rooms to help record our separate recordings. One thing I realised was that it was far more harder than I thought it'd be because I came in with a set mindset of "One-take record" since my recording was mostly acoustic. However I came to realise that time has been underestimated. Why? Because everything was based on assumptions. Like me, I thought everyone knew their parts, well I accounted for the teaching time but it ended up being longer than I expected. Not only that, the set-up time took way longer than expected. Also, I found myself fiddling around with the song to fit the musicians I 'hired'. What I took back from this was that I had to know what I wanted from the get-go. Most especially since it was my song so that meant that I had to figure out the dynamics , what type of performance I was looking for, what type of equipment I wanted ,etc etc. I also have come to realise that my identification of the different equipment was lacking and that I should find out what kind of resulting sound I can expect from it so that it can fit the picture I have of the song.

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