The document summarizes Aleia Hollands' work with a band over several months to record their music. It describes meetings with the band to discuss equipment and their sound. Later entries discuss recording sessions where Aleia worked to record individual instruments and vocals for songs over multiple sessions. The final sessions involved editing the tracks together and adding effects with the lead singer before finalizing the recordings on a CD.

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.