15th September 2016 ... productive studio day

Today I was pretty productive... I had lectures in the morning and learned some cool new stuff and as soon as I got out of the last lecture I went to the "Pro Control" studio which will had booked.
It was a bit daunting at first because I always feel like I'm gonna break something but the stuff is sturdier than it looks ^^

Anyway while Will mixed his kick and sub I practised my scales on the keyboard after that I hooked my laptop up to the speakers and checked my mix of the track I'm working on right now (I'd post a link but I don't want to show it to anyone yet). I noticed that the snare was way to loud and not sitting correctly in the mix, the risers are too overpowering at the end of the buildup, the bass noise in the buildup needs to have a highpass filter with an automation controlling the frequency envelope and last but not least that the transition after the drop is great but I continue going into the main verse which I shouldn't do but rather just continue with the "after drop" bridge motif.

It was great to finally listen to my track on amazing speakers and be able to feel the bass, that feeling in your gut and torso when the 808's in the drop come in and the sinewaves hit you is very rewarding! ^-^/

Studio pics and a vid of the track:

Later that evening I booked room 17 for 45 minutes (I already used up the rest of my credits for recording drums on Sunday) and mixed rap vocal stems in Logic. I myself am a Fl Studio user and I rarely use Logic so I'm trying to get out of my comfort zone to learn it and it went surprisingly well. The native plugins in Logic are f**ing amazing! I'm trying to use Logic more and more for mixing and hopefully by christmas I'll be "fluent"in Logic, at least that'd be my set goal.

All in all fun and productive day!

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