Absolute tune for me, Sax Solo Recorded- using a premade backing track, recorded myself in the college studio with Pro Tools 10 and edited the Sax with a few of the basic plugins in Pro Tools. Hope you like.

Suicide Is Painless Take 1

Today we had our first solo session in the studio; setting up, recording and basic mixing of our own mix. We used correct gain staging and then adjusted the levels of the mono click/voice tracks to better balance the stereo Voiceover. In addition, in the mix, we added a small amount of reverb to each track and even tried to add an EQ to the mono voice track to remove the click. This was however, unsuccessful.

Session 2.3 Paul and Helen 28/09/18

Here is a recording of myself having a noodle through Samba Cantina to a backing track. Samba Cantina is a piece made popular by the sound of the saxophonist Paul Desmond. It's been a long time since I've played through any Saxophone or Jazz for that matter.
The setup I used was a single Sony C-48 microphone in a cardioid pickup pattern. I had quite a high gain and stood fairly close to the microphone so there's a lot of variation in dynamics that were very hard to balance out in the mix. I used quite a lot of compression and automation of dynamics to try and counteract the problems and whether I've been successful is up to you.
I did a little bit of EQ'ing to try and make the sax sit better with the backing and found it hard to make a reverb that sat naturally with the prerecorded band.
Anyway, I hope you enjoy.

Samba Cantina - AudiPaul 02/11/18

This is the edited version of Abi's performance. I removed the sound of the recorder and some hiss from the Clarinet itself. On top of this, I added an EQ to make the overall sound more "round" and added a little reverb as the room was very dry. To finish, I used a little Melodyne on a couple of notes that needed raising and then did a little compression/limiting to make the overall mix a little louder without sacrificing the dynamic range.

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