Having a worthwhile hobby can be a very important thing in life. I am lucky that spending money on something I love is not a huge problem for me. But you can already do masses of great things for a lot less money than that!!
Fair play to you. Hope you get more than your money's worth out it!
Is this one just going to consist of live instrument recordings or are you going make use of any plug-ins?
Yeah but it is with everything: once you learn the "language" it's as straight forward as reading and writing....I shall see if I can help decipher some of what is going on here!
What i wil do or what i would like to do, depending on time and all that, is start a fresh project and go through it step by step and post things here using vids and screenshots and asking for feedback as to which way a certain thing could go and describing the processes, which will help me get to grasp with some of the mysteries out there as some things I find are quite complicated and it takes real training to hear what you are looking for in a mix or recording.....I will use both live instruments and samples to make a song/tune......let's start off by asking what our mood is? What is our theme? What is the mood we want to capture in our piece? What's the setting or situation? Suggestions on a postcard or alternatively post it in the thread below!
What you are seeing in the screenshots Dave are soundwaves created by recording sounds via the computer into the recording software.....the different coloured wave forms......these wave forms are recorded separately and even though they are placed one under each other they all sound in the same piece of music...when you listen to a piece of music on the radio or whatever you have no idea when each part or where each part has been recorded or how many takes it took to record that certain part.....so you hear a tambourine playing on a song: that tambourine could have been added weeks after the song itself was recorded and perhaps in a totally different location....its a puzzle that is chopped and cut and enhanced and flavoured, tweaking, cutting, adding, copying and pasting and modulating until you have the complete song or piece of music. It is at first a little disappointing to learn that a lot of what is done in music is actually all very "fake"......the great engineers make all those different pieces flow together in a harmonious and consistent way so that it sounds as a whole to the listener.
Oh we gonna be a shakin'!Kinda reminds me of the strings from Viva La vida! I've got my trusty little subwoofer driver next to me I want the whole table shaking mate
Can't wait for you to add more depth to it, interested to see how this develops.
[DOUBLEPOST=1507063282][/DOUBLEPOST]As we can hear the guitar is somewhat drowned out by the piano which needs to be more in mix, more in the whole as it were....
