Today we started out day a little bit later at 1:00 pm because Mr. Hodgen had to take his son to the hospital for a pre-op checkup. Even with the late start, I still did a lot of interesting and cool things today. I learned how to wind tape, meaning how to set it up in the machine properly and how to rewind as well as record over it.
Tape machines are a very cool resource that not a lot of studios have today because digital recording has taken over a lot. However, they are good to have because they give songs a nice warm sound to them. I also learned that before digital editing, someone would have to literally cut off pieces of the tape in order to make edits to the song, which is an irreversible action. (Lots of pressure to do things right!)
It also fully learned what mastering a song is. Mixing a song is adding in effects and editing out parts that are not wanted. Mastering music means that the song volume is raised to a commercial level, so that the volume of your song wouldn’t be drastically different from another song that played on the same speakers. Mastering music also involves looking at an entire album or group of songs and ensuring that al the songs are just about the same volume level.
The difference in mastering a song makes the difference in how people will hear the song.
Later in the day, three guys came in who are members of a band called five nine. They play what I would define is alternative rock kind of music. Anyways it was cool stuff! And Mr. Hodgen worked with them as he mixed their music.