[QUOTE=Atomic Rain]If I were you I'd drop one and do the FM AS anyway

You gotta work hard ot get into cambrudge

what subject you gonna apply for?

[/QUOTE]

Maths, hopefuly, or maths with physics.

[QUOTE=Atomic Rain]

In other news me and a couple of physics buddies "won" a competition today (2 teams got through out of 5 and we were one)

the competition was about explainin science to a non-scientist, we did E=mc^2

It was good fun, we have to do it again for a regional final on 21st
[/QUOTE]

Is that called Paperclip Physics?

lol.
So what do you two want to do for a career then, if you've looked that far ahead?

[QUOTE=Alive]Maths, hopefuly, or maths with physics.



Is that called Paperclip Physics?[/QUOTE]

It was indeed named thus.

[QUOTE=Trigger_003]lol.
So what do you two want to do for a career then, if you've looked that far ahead?[/QUOTE]

In the careers library they have booklets called "Careers in _____", so I looked in the maths ones for some stuff. One interesting one was a computer data engineer (or something), which basically entails working on writing and developing encryption programs. I also thought I might like to be an enginner (I did my work experience at a civil engineering company).

What are you going to do?

A A A A A in my first set of modules, with 90/90 (standardised) in physics

score

Aw, you legend :thumb:

Sounds good Simon. I'm after a career in music in some form or another (tuition/teaching/performing artist?), and I'm also looking at IT (web design/development mainly). Keeping my options open for as long as I can though.
*shrug*

[QUOTE=Atomic Rain]A A A A A in my first set of modules, with 90/90 (standardised) in physics

score[/QUOTE]

What the hell? You are supa cleva. Did you get straight A's at GCSE?

We get out results for our january exams tomorrow, is that what you're talking about? I only did one, in chemistry.

Trea ~ That sounds great. It's doing what you want to do and getting paid for it, which could never be bad.

Ooo, let us know how you went.

I had a physics assessment task (SAC) today. I think it went pretty sweet :).

[QUOTE=Alive]What the hell? You are supa cleva. Did you get straight A's at GCSE?[/QUOTE]

6 A*s 4 As

/Is taking the recording gear out tommorrow.

So expect a post later on tonight detailing one of the following,

A) What exploded/What I forgot to buy
B) How easy it was to lure 4 friends to an industrial estate and mug them under the premise of a recording session.

haha

i found the most hilarious example of shameless memeism used for self promotion on myspace today

Band called the sun, video called "romantic death"

hilarious

haha nice.

I've got a recording of Flight of the Bumblebee... on trombone! Do you know how hard that is?

Wow.
Just wow.

[QUOTE=Trigger_003]haha nice.

I've got a recording of Flight of the Bumblebee... on trombone! Do you know how hard that is?

Wow.
Just wow.[/QUOTE]
That sounds crazy go nuts..

Again with ol' Rubber Johnny :thumb:

How's it going Chris?

I think I'm all music'd out for today - been going from 9 this morning.

You rehearsing for the games, right?

I've been roped into desiging a front cover for a book, so I'm busy with that at the moment.

Yeah, but not only.

Alright. Who/What's that for?
I'm just checking out that youthweek site - nice. Might consider getting involved in some of it (maybe RockIT...).

Cya, I'ma gonna make myself a pizza - pita bread for the base :grin:.

Yo kids,
How's everything going?

Got back from the studio today, went pretty good. I can do ALOT better, but considering the circumstances, I got some pretty amazing recordings from it.

Basicly we used all the practice rooms gear apart from cymbals, and guitars.
The kit wasn't given any tuning, dampening (apart from the kick with an old blanket). I just had to stick the mics on and make sure they weren't clipping, I had no oppertunity to move them around or otherwise alter things apart from post-recording processing.
Mic in the kick drum, about 3inches from the head (the other head was removed) It was an equal distance from where the beater hit and the shell.

E.Q. for the kick, slight boost at 80Hz, cut at 300Hz, wide boost at 2kHz-5kHz.

Snare was miked initially with the mic pointed towards the center of the head with a slight angle to get more tone. But during the recording it turned out it wasn't tight enough and fell into new posistions.

Toms where miked in the same manner as the snare.

Two overheads placed badly that have little effect on the mix, I was really rushed and didn't have time to check everything so I took the guitarists word that the overheads were 'far too loud, turn em down'. Basicly they are extremely quiet.

I didn't have time to run the guitars through guitar rig and isolate things so guitars were just miked.
Marshal combos, don't know much else, fairly new though.
Stuck an I5 for the rythmn guitarist, on-axis but slightly angle so it wasn't directly at the centre of the cone, but not so angle it was off axis. Sounded great, not much E.Q. needed, just roll off below 80Hz, a little boost around 2kHz. I loved the sound this gave combined with the amp, really phat and chunky, it gave us some really sexy pinch harmonics.

The lead guitar got a 57. Still came out well, (It was on the same model of amp, both pretty new) you could tell the major difference between the 57 and i5 though. The I5 just had alot more beef to it and I generally prefered it, but the 57 needed a little less E.Q.
The 57 was miked up on the amp pretty much the same as the I5.

The bass was DI'd and then run through guitar rig two and modelled.

Basicly the session was really rushed, I had to reset the desk a couple of times halfway through setting up so we ended up slapping 5 tracks down in 1 hour and a half. There really wasn't time to tweak things so it's really just a raw recording.

The mics I used,

Snare = Audix i5
Toms = Red5Audio snare/tom mic (Can't remember the model)
Kick = RVD1
Overheads = RV8's (Red5Audio again)

Lead Guitar = SM57
R Guitar = Audix i5
Bass = DI'd

Just got it all done live.
[url]http://s57.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0I9SVFQ4Z88OV2RS4GJ6N18OXU[/url]
That's the current mix, I have no idea how that sounds/sounds on normal speakers, my ears are dead at the moment. But to me it sounds great considering the rushness and the fact that there was no tweaking.
The Red5Audio mics really impressed me, I was expecting to have to do alot of tweaking in terms of posistions to get a usuable sound. I didn't expect to put the mic down where I thought it'd be best and get a good tone.

Let me know what you think, I'm thinking the drums wanna drop down in the recording, tis a bit overpowering.

Dude, KKKKKocaine, I haven't seen you in forever. When did you get back to MXing?

haha

kkkkocaine your website is all the broked

[QUOTE=Atomic Rain]haha

kkkkocaine your website is all the broked[/QUOTE]

haha ima fukkin kut ur fayc :angry:

[QUOTE]
Dude, KKKKKocaine, I haven't seen you in forever. When did you get back to MXing?[/QUOTE]

Haven't been posting much lately, I'm pretty much a JS only poster now.

MX Jam Session patriots, get yourselves into this thread and sign up.

[url]http://musicianforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=450835[/url]

That recording sounds a bit weak and flat KKK. Plus I can't really tell whats going on, think that just might be the performance/genre though. Probably can all be fixed with EQ and mixing though.

[QUOTE=RushHourSoul]That recording sounds a bit weak and flat KKK. Plus I can't really tell whats going on, think that just might be the performance/genre though. Probably can all be fixed with EQ and mixing though.[/QUOTE]

Haven't really heard it through regular speakers yet, only enclosed, recorded some vocals today with one of the most annoying vocalists ever. Aside from being an absaloute twat to everyone around him he just annoys me, he complains that he sounds 'awful' as a vocalist, but refuses to take lessons, he can do low screams/growls ok, but the second he has to hit a high note he seems to double in volume and didn't seem able to follow my request of 'Could you do the high bits quieter?' I know it's screaming, but his volume takes the piss, then to further add to my frustation, he can't stay in one spot, he has to lean in when he screams. He didn't prepare any lyrics for songs the band have been doing for a few months and then complained at the rest of the band because we weren't helping him write lyrics, when earlier he had a go at the bassist and guitarist because they said they'd like to do some backing vocals,
'you had your turn to record your stuff, let me do my own stuff'

:rolleyes: He's just generally a pain, both musically and personally.

Gonna try and finish off the recordings and see how they come out on normal speakers.

[QUOTE]but the second he has to hit a high note he seems to double in volume and didn't seem able to follow my request of 'Could you do the high bits quieter?' [/QUOTE]

Ask him to lean away from the mic more when he goes higher. Failing that, just add a bit of compression, maybe 4:1 post-recording, should even things out a bit.

Also, i'd consider a bit of compression on the drums (the drum submix), just to get them to gel together a bit better.

Can't tell whats happening on the bass end, as I listened on ipod headphones last night. I'll edit this post later when I give it a proper listen:thumb:

Pretty good for the time constraints though:D

:wave:
Hello, my name is Freddie. I'm 16 (17 next month) and I play drums and sax. I'm just starting to get into recording and I'm trying to figure all of this equipment out. My dad left me some recording stuff that he used for his band and his CD. Today was a nice suprise, I found two Shure SM57s in this drawer. I'm currently using a Roland VS-1680 for recording and I'm using Cakewalk on my computer.

[QUOTE=gaz12369]Ask him to lean away from the mic more when he goes higher. Failing that, just add a bit of compression, maybe 4:1 post-recording, should even things out a bit.

Also, i'd consider a bit of compression on the drums (the drum submix), just to get them to gel together a bit better.

Can't tell whats happening on the bass end, as I listened on ipod headphones last night. I'll edit this post later when I give it a proper listen:thumb:

Pretty good for the time constraints though:D[/QUOTE]

Compression doesn't really do much to his kinda increases, I've only gone over one track with his vocals on and I've just had to set automation to fix it, he didn't clip so that's ok, but it's a pain having to set 8 or so decreases in volume in the automation just for the vocals.

I've just run it through my TFT's inbuilt 'speakers'. And I think I've under-represented the bass of the overall mix so I'll run over that and boost it up a bit, I've mostly been monitoring on enclosed headphones and my studio monitors which churned out plenty of bass, but I'm hoping to optimise the mix for domestic speakers tonight or tommorrow. I keep on forgetting to add a bit of compression to the entire mix as well.

G'day Freddie, how's it going?

Woah, I am sooo tired. Just did the Moomba march then stuffed around in the city with some mates. Great fun :).

I was up all night last night haha.

What doing?

I spent ages cleaning my trombone last night but I wasn't [I]too[/I] late to bed. Highly entertaining if you ever get the chance to watch, lol.

Oh and I've half got msn back. I'm gradually being allowed to permanantly unblock various people...

Awesome. Can't wait to talk to you :mad:.

I was up last night with Chris and Chad (/you guys *sigh*) doing the usual. Went driving, walking, played pool, swam (:grin: ), played PS2, etc etc.

Good times!

I've started a new plan at gym for the holidays.