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Recording with Apple’s Logic 8 As mentioned, in addition to the four songs, I composed and recorded two instrumental pieces. They were to be used as background music during narrated scenes in the play: “Creation” and “Creation/Destruction”. This music was to underscore the story of the pre-Inca legend of the world’s creation. The compositions had to support a mysterious, ancient and esoteric mood. This, in my mind, called for atmospheric creations using traditionalsounding instruments plus some synths and effects. I chose Apple’s Logic 8 for this assignment because I needed easy access to royalty-free sound effects such as

1. Is it possible to mix in a little bit of ‘water lapping at the shore’ beginning at 18*sec’s in? 2. The Wind comes in heavy at 2:43 and then the flutes are added at 3:09; can you switch them so the flutes come in first at 2:43 and the Wind comes in at 3:09? During another meeting, the three of us agreed that the second instrumental should have more electronic and industrial sounds, since it dealt with industrialization, and the negative effects this has had on the environment. With Logic, making these changes was a simple and seamless procedure. To “electronize” the percussion, for example, I fed the factory Vocoder with the acoustic percussion I had recorded and added some “tweaked-out” eq (exaggerating highs, scooping out lows). One thing I learned in this part of the process was to use the Save As function liberally; oftentimes people change their minds and it was great to have older versions of these pieces that I could go back to if needed. Recording and mixing three final versions with Live, Logic and Pro Tools Once the compositions had been completed and approved, I produced the final versions using the demos as the basis. In some cases, in fact, much of the original demo ended up being used in the final cuts. For example, the final version of “And the Clock is Ticking” used all the original demo parts, except the oboe, which was recorded by former New York Philharmonic oboist and author of “Mozart in the Jungle” Blair Tindall (mozartinthe jungle.com) at my studio.

rain, fire and water, all of which are included as part of Logic’s factory loops. With easy drag-and-drop functionality, I was able to place these effects in just the right places. Also, Logic is a great “traditional” sequencer in the linear sense. I tracked various real percussion instruments like cajón and shakers with my Audix D6 and the AT4050 respectively, and used sampled flutes from Logic’s vast library and different synthesizers which I plucked from Spectrasonics’ Atmosphere plug-in. Choreographer Stephen Hues had some great suggestions, such as using a triangle to accentuate certain moments. He and I also exchanged some e-mails in which I sent him my latest versions of these pieces and he gave me feedback; here is part of one of these e-mails, regarding the “Creation” piece:
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My friend Eliot Waldhorn owns E5 Music in Van Nuys (www.e5music.net), some 15 minutes from my studio. I decided to track some final bass, drum, electric and acoustic and harmonica parts for three of the four songs there. The vibe is right, what with Miles Davis, Prince, Pat Metheny and The Police staring at you from their vinyl album covers, as if to say, “It is your turn now; go for it!” After nearly two months of complete solitary immersion in all aspects of the creation and production of the music, I needed to be able to step outside of my engineering role and “only” be a musician for a couple of days, ceding the tracking chair to Eliot and letting his ears and musicality give me an objective opinion about the tunes. E5 has some proven and reliable gear. We used a Mac G5 2.3 Dual Core, running Pro Tools LE version 7 (the same version I own), a Peavey Production Series 40-channel recording/mixing board, mics by Audio-Technica, Shure and AKG, a Focusrite channel strip, and an ADM Stereo Tube Compressor. The sessions were really fun and relaxed, which comes through in the tracks. We recorded drums, 6- and 12-string acoustic guitars, and bass for three


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Contents
Talkback
Fast Forward
PreSonus Studio One
Recording the Music for a Theatre Play
AEA A840 Active Ribbon Mic
Jennifer Batten
Reviewed and Revisited
Running Your Studio Under Linux
Recording’s Guitar Column
Steinberg CC121, MR816 X/MR816 CSX, and CI2
Glyph GT 062E
Recording’s Showcase of Sounds
Muse Research Receptor 2
It’s Your Music—Know Your Rights. Chapter 5: The Business End—Part 2
Plug-in Outlet
Readers’ Tapes
Advertiser Index
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Recording - August 2010 - Contents
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Recording - August 2010 - Talkback
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Recording - August 2010 - Fast Forward
Recording - August 2010 - 9
Recording - August 2010 - PreSonus Studio One
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Recording - August 2010 - Recording the Music for a Theatre Play
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Recording - August 2010 - AEA A840 Active Ribbon Mic
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Recording - August 2010 - Jennifer Batten
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Recording - August 2010 - Reviewed and Revisited
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Recording - August 2010 - Running Your Studio Under Linux
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Recording - August 2010 - Recording’s Guitar Column
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Recording - August 2010 - Steinberg CC121, MR816 X/MR816 CSX, and CI2
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Recording - August 2010 - Glyph GT 062E
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Recording - August 2010 - Recording’s Showcase of Sounds
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Recording - August 2010 - Muse Research Receptor 2
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Recording - August 2010 - It’s Your Music—Know Your Rights. Chapter 5: The Business End—Part 2
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Recording - August 2010 - Plug-in Outlet
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Recording - August 2010 - Readers’ Tapes
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