This Trimester has been one of my most productive to date, in terms of freelance work. Due to my internship at Los Bomberos, I’m able to use the studio there once per week which has meant that I’m always looking for people to record if I’m free, and that I’m doing something every week. I … More Freelancer Project

This trimester we successfully completed what has been my favourite project to date at SAE. The brief was to source a band, and take them to Soundpark Studio’s in Northcote to record to tape. I was particularly excited about this project for two reasons. The first was that we were going into a real studio … More Recording to Tape Project

I personally play in a few different bands, and before I started studying audio production we would go into a studio to record our music, and be told that we then needed to send the final mixes off to mastering to finish them off. We didn’t have much of an idea of what a mastering … More The Dark Art of Mastering

It’s tough taking on a project where the client has no specific criteria that they want to meet. Sure it means that you’re able to be more creative, but it also means it can be harder to please the client as there is nothing specially you can do that they want done. One of the … More Blog 1: How do I satisfy a client brief that is open-ended and not prescriptive?

This trimester I started off learning post production with Rezz. We were taught about on set recording and boom operating, and began our post production assessment on the Rick and Morty cartoon. We stripped all of the audio and replaced everything from dialogue, to foley and In the end it came out incredibly well. Next … More Post Mortem Blog

What genres or styles of music are most unfamiliar to me, and what production techniques could be learned from investigating these styles? To be honest, I’m most familiar with lo-fi indie rock music and think that I would really benefit from learning from different genres that I have no idea about, such as hip hop, … More Unfamiliar genre techniques

It’s hard to say what I would have done differently to the demo as I was away sick on the day the song was mixed. However just from listening to the final product, the song sounded somewhat ‘wooly’ and muddy/unclear to my ears. Don’t get me wrong, the group did a great job mixing the … More Demo project results

Our group chose to do the song ‘Distant friend’ for our demo project, as we believed it had more feeling and would be easier – and more fun, to build on than the other song. Unlike the other groups, we didn’t want to change the song too far from the original demo. We wanted to … More Demo Project

After getting into the Neve room and being taught how to use the Neve, I was blown away at how unnecessarily complicated the console is, and how outdated it seems. Sure ‘vintage gear’ is cool, and everyone loves how it sounds. But his desk being a hybrid doesn’t seem to have any of the desirable … More Neve Hybrid desk

Going into the live sound assessment, with only 20 minutes to mix the band, I was a little nervous. I’d heard stories of a member of another group spending so much time on EQ and other things that they forget to put all their faders up before the 20 mins was over. However I didn’t … More Live sound – 20 minute mix