1. AleiaHollands
Date and Time Activity Commentary
I met with the band and discussed I got to know the band and its
09/30/2011 equipment and talked about the members. The equipment is
overall involvement of the band in undergoing changes, so it wasn’t
3 Hours my project. I did a short practice very productive to use their
recording. board.
The practice helped me get to
10/14/2011 The band and I worked with the new
know the type of music the band
board and the new software. I
plays and the sound they try to
3 Hours listened to the band practice.
achieve.
This was a good learning
10/28/2011
I used the board to mix and equalize experience for live sound, but I
the band while they practiced. haven’t yet worked much with the
3 Hours
recording aspect.
I learned so much more from
Giovanni helped me out with the
01/06/2012 meeting with Giovanni than I did
aspects of the board that I would use
than from just meeting with the
while recording. He met the band and
4 Hours band. I’m glad Giovanni had the
gave me some tips for recording.
opportunity to come to practice.
I worked with Logic Pro, got to know I learned that as the producer, it is
01/27/2012
how the software works and how to my job to direct the band, make
recognize discrepancies with the suggestions, and overall guide the
3 Hours
musical tracks. sound of the music.
The set up was the most difficult
02/18/2012 I began recording with the guitarist part because if one aspect doesn’t
and the lead singer using Garage work, then the recording doesn’t
4 Hours Band. We got three songs recorded. sound good. I also had volume
and output issues.
The setup was still difficult due to
03/03/2012 This session, I finished recording the
the new microphone. There was
guitar parts for all songs. We didn’t
also a mix-up with the guitarist on
4 Hours have time to finish the vocals.
the time we were meeting.

2. Since we had less to do this
03/13/2012 I finished the vocals and so all the session, the recording was much
recording is done. I got started on less stressful and I was able to
3 Hours some of the editing redo some of the tracks that had
mistakes in them.
I finished editing the recording and Editing with the lead singer was
03/31/2012 added some of the effects. I worked an enjoyable experience and it
with the lead singer of the band. I was interesting to see all of the
1 Hour then finalized the songs and burned possible options and ways the
them to a CD. songs can sound.