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My Evaluation

My evaluation   In the beginning of my final major project, I set out to do a themed ep with our band . W e all sat together and decided on a theme to go with for our ep and we planned everything out from our recording times to the mixing and mastering and even our cover art. This whole plan changed over time, so essentially, we didn’t achieve what we set out to do, but that is a good thing, because I am still happy with what we achieved. The main reason it didn’t work out is that we ran out of time do all the things that we planned to. Originally, we came up with a pretty unique theme for our ep. It was a theme that involved different types of fish , where each different type of fish portrayed a problem in a human's life. E.g., a goldfish would represent dementia and how hard it is for family and friends to deal with someone that has it. I feel that this was a great idea and had a deep meaning, however we thought of it too late, so we didn’t have time to compl ete
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the ep

due to blogger having an issue with sharing audio we have had to upload the tracks to soundcloud , to be able to link the tracks on here. the tracks are in order apart from mrs jane which was not originally meant to be on the ep, however it now is just for this project but will not be properly released in our ep. https://soundcloud.com/the_cag3/sets/the-cage/s-iAcKrS1JyQN?si=84f38faf55034fa9b24b6dbf38ff8806&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing
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time

 we just managed to get all of the songs recorded and mixed (not very well) before the deadline. I think we may have over estimated the time we actually had, which is why we has to add mrs Jane to our ep, because this gives us more songs in the ep. we came up with a few ideas for the theme of the ep, like the fish idea which I liked. however we didn't have enough time to execute any good ideas. so our ep is just random songs that we've made. no specific genre or idea. this isn't ideal but will have to get the job done.
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25th may 2023

 yesterday we had a listen to all of our songs that we've recorded and mixed. we had a long talk about a lot of things. when we listened to 'dead' we noticed that the tom sound was cut off. I told Isaac about this and he changed it so the tom sound rang out instead of just cut off straight away. this was ironic as Isaac accidentally deleted my two tom hits right before the breakdown before. once we changed this I was happy with the drum sound. Alex and Isaac were also happy with all of their parts in the song, however Isaac thinks Anthony's vocals need to be re done, whereas I like the sound of his vocals on dead because I think it fits well. we don't have enough time to change his vocals now, as we have to submit the songs later today and Anthony is in Poland so we will probably re do them after our final major project. also Isaac put an enveloper on the kick drum and the snare drum, making them sound a lot better in the mix. while listening to 'mrs Jane' w
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guitar

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today we talked about quite a lot of things and we also recorded guitar for 'the day i left'. firstly the whole band got together and spoke about changing up our setlist a tiny bit. we chose to change our cover of the who's 'my generation' for a more popular cover that people would know and could sing along to. the options we came up with were break stuff by limp bizkit, teenage dirtbag and other songs from bands like metallica and nirvana (the generic type). we decided that break stuff would be a good fit to swap into our set and play it near the end with 'the day i left' and civil war' as they are all low tuning for the guitars. we have done this change so that we have an extra song under our belts if we need it, because our next gig is on the 9th july, so if we don't get another  original completed we can use the cover instead. also once we have an all original set we could use break stuff as an encore song if the crowd wants another. we also spok
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drums and vocals

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yesterday anthony recorded vocals. him and isaac set up a single mic and recorded into logic. anthony listened to the backing track and sang to it over a few takes. once he had a good main vocal line he recorded a lot of different harmonies. in the end he didn't use them all, as the didn't fit, however the ones that we have kept in sound great with the song and he did a good job. this means the song 'dead' is all recorded and now all it needs is to be mixed and mastered. today i recorded drums for our song 'the day i left' we didn't have a lot of time, so after me and isaac set up all of the mics and plugged them in we did a sound check. this took a while as there was no signal in the fifth input(bottom snare mic) for some reason. after looking into it more and trying a few different things isaac realized it was the mic that was broken, therefore we swapped it with another mic that did work. after this alex and isaac sat in the studio getting the levels righ
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more recording

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 on the 12th may, after recording my drums and isaac's bass we recorded alex's guitar and anthony's guitar. we got anthony's done first after a few takes. he played to my drums and isaac's bass recording through the headphones again that we connected to logic. after we finished anthonys final take, alex got set up with all of his pedals and then we set up the mics in front of his amp to capture his sound for recording. alex struggled to keep to what he usually plays on the song, as he likes to show off with random slos or change up the riffs. so after anthony told him off we eventually got a good take that was what he usually plays. every ones parts all sound pretty good together, and they all sound tight. we now have to record anthony's vocals and then if anyone wants to re do parts we can but i doubt we will need to. after that we just have to mix and master the track and then we can start the next one.
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