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I started creating the song in Pro Tools 9, I started by grabbing a bass loop so 3 seconds of a track and had that as the base of the song, I then added kick and snares and hi hats on 1 measure using piano roll, I made the song to be 2:45. The snare and hi hats and kick are all on beat and I don't really have anything offbeat. Its a really simple beat the hardest part of the beat was finding a bassline I liked. Looping it was really simple. If you have a bass line loop in the program you have measures. 1 measure is 4 beats like 4, 1,2,3,4. so I would create a snare line that was a little quicker than my kick but still was on beat with it. Same with my hi hats they are a little quicker than my kick but still on beat with it. Then I assigned them on the mix and looped it so it would keep playing over and over without skipping or sounding different as shown below.
The pink square is my bassline which loops every 3-4 seconds. The rest is a piano roll for the kicks, snares and hi hats and they are all within the first measure under 1,2,3,4 roll. Each verse if there is a verse will have 16 bars then a hook. I could have made it a 32 bar verse but It would have been harder so I stuck with a 16 bar measure than the hook. Each instrument is a virtual instrument called expand which is a channel where you can assign it as a kick our bass or hi hat and use that preset or make your own, I could make a really hard bass and kick but have a soft hi hat and snare to go with it. This is a picture of Xpand2, its a virtual instrument that you can literally do anything with make any sound and make anything any instrument. So I used presets that were already built with the program and set the song up. And that's how I created a hip hop beat you want your kick's and snares and claps to sound as real as possible but sometimes the kick sounds better pre-made like above. After we made the beat I took two songs we recorded and were going to release, and fixed the voices I messed up in editing. I started off by having liz teach me what each thing does and how to edit the voice and the certain steps to each one. So the first thing you want to start off with is a gate to get rid of any unnecessary noise like a light humming or a noise that you could barely hear out of there. You always want to gate before you compress because if you compress your vocals the sound you didn't like will be at a higher pitch than before. Then you compress your voice I like a light compression to make it sound a littler flatter but not by much pretty much a clean up to the already good vocals you have recorded. Then you want to throw some Eq down, there you can edit your voice to sound fuller or lesser clean up the sound or make the lows or highs of your voice sound bigger or smaller. Its pretty much how you want it to sound to the certain sound of style you want. After that you add some slight re-verb to the track to get it that bounce but full sound of the track. You don't want to much re-verb of the track will like its been altered the goal of editing is to edit and make it seem like you never did. Unless you want it to sound different for style purposes. This is the final editing of everything It shows what I have added to the voices and what the compression looks like. Another step to do is duplicate the vocal tracks and beat tracks and pan then to sound fuller so one track only plays out the left speaker and one only plays out the right speaker. Once you have it all edited to give it the mix down and put it to a Wav. File so it keeps the good sound you wanted to save. Journal: This was created and finished on February 26th 2015. Editing was finished on 3-4-2015 : During this time I did visit the Counselors and ask them for help or just to answer any questions. My mentor had 95 % of everything I needed. Her credentials: Elizabeth Lyon: Hennepin Technical college and Utah State. Her degree is Audio Production and Engineering. She works at ARUP as an AV specialist: she records pod casts and videos she also works at KSL as an on air reporter. The website I visited for help: http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/apr05/articles/protoolsnotes.htm |