Week 4- Beatmaking w/ Carlos

This week we worked with Carlos again. We got work with him in his office which was really cool! His room was what my dream home studio would look like. He had his desktop set up at one end of the room and had three or four keyboards as well as a bass guitar and a few other instruments. He also had really nice studio monitors which sounded amazing in the office because of the acoustics. All of this plus a couch and coffee table where we sat and worked on a few projects on my laptop. Even though it had only been a few weeks since he had started using a new software, he had gotten the hang of it really quickly. He showed us a few of his projects that he had been working on in the past week and helped him to get around the software and show him the things that he wanted to do. After this, we started a new beat together and came up with a pretty cool melody and drums. It was really cool to have been able to work with him and I hope we will have the opportunity to again.

SugarHill Week 3 - Audio Engineer Class

Week 3- 

This week when Brooks and I came in, we met a man in the lobby named Carlos who rents out his own office with the studio. He had just started using a new software called FL Studio which both Brooks and I are familiar with. We worked with him for a little bit of time to help him find where all of the essential tools were and explain the layout and workflow of the program. We were then all invited to sit in on an audio engineering class being taught to University students at the studio so we decided to join. The class was mostly focused on setting up microphones in a professional studio. The instructor walked us through the differences between many of the industry standard microphones and explained what each one is often used for. To demonstrate the differences he had set up about five different microphones and showed us the difference in the waveforms that we recorded using all of the different mics. For example one of the demonstrations was to show which kind of microphone was best for recording a snare. I volunteered to help by going into the recording booth and playing the snare drum while he recorded it through all of the mics. He then explained which mics he thought would perform better and compared his predictions of how he thought they would sound with how they actually sounded. It was a really cool experience for both Brooks and me. We were very lucky to be able to attend the class as it was taught by an actual professional sound engineer.