Month: April 2016

Yesterday we had Cody, the drummer who is playing on the EP, come in and record the drum part for the first track on the album, “Leave Me Out Of It”. It took us a little more than four hours before we got it just like we wanted it. Although we recorded it all the way through, we still need to go back and add a couple background parts tomorrow. Today I spent the day at TBeats. We gave tours to an Australian guy who works for “Ponto Solutions” in the advertising and marketing section, and a singer songwriter named Greg who was interested in recording and collaborating with Tony, the owner of TBeats. I also got to work a bit with a different TBeats engineer named Malcolm who produces EDM, rap, trap, and house music. Almost everyone I talked to today was interested in working with me in some form later on, most importantly a young rapper who is coming to record one of his songs in my studio on Friday afternoon.

Today is Tuesday, April 12. Today was the second to last day at Frick’s. Its gone by really fast. Today I helped Ellory with the Frick’s Website. I looked it over and gave her an idea that she might use when they update the website. Tomorrow is my last day at Frick’s. I’m really glad I got the opportunity to shadow a company like this. I have learned so much and can’t wait to share it soon.

Yesterday (Monday) I arrived into Ireland. I spent the first half of the day just resting up. I then spent the second half of the day learning about my uncles business. He runs his own business called Niall O’Regan Financial Services.It’s based out of his house. He has his own office where he does all of his business. Today (Tuesday) I was at a company called footfall. The owner, Malcom, is my uncles neighbor and good friend. They do enterance matting. To fully understand what they do you’ll have to look at their website footfall.ie. I spent today learning about the company and the products. I will be there for the rest of the week. I’ll keep you updated as time goes on.

Today I learned new stuff, the picture showing below is a machine called Titrator. This helps you find the water percentage in the liquid that you are testing. It was interesting, you just need to put the liquid that you want to test into the yellow liquid, and the machine will automatically calculate the water percentage in this liquid.

You all have my sincerest apology for not posting daily, as is required. For the past week I have been scanning papers, shredding papers, packaging products, and getting products ready to ship. I am now in the airport waiting to bard my plane to Ireland. So hopefully this next week will be more interesting. I’ll keep you posted. Robert out.

I have figured out how to piece together some Persian art work which has been tough! I have also acquired a camera and tripod so my video quality should be less of an issue now. Due to the fact that I am not using my phone I will need to figure out how to Put it in to time-lapse.

From now on, I am going to work 2 more hours each day.

Being late to senior project because my ID was expired, I just arrived yesterday 11:30 pm. Forgetting about the jet lag, today I have worked for the first day to learn how a simple needle machine and a special machine work. I am probably gonna work on assembling a machine for my whole project. Also communicating with most of the staffs in the company, they have been working there for 10 years, a lot of experiments and I still got a lot to learn. 

Me and Vincent were late for senior project. Because Vincent’s id was expired. I just got to New York yesterday. It was my working day today. I have seen that how to renew a sewing machine. How to assemble it. And the picture was a sewing machine.

The problem I have for the coming week is that the only audio interface that is supported by my version of Pro Tools is my Fast Track C600, which works great for recording instruments where I only need one or two channels since it is only a four channel interface. The problem we have is that next week we are planning on recording drums which, depending on the style of recording and desired sound, can use five to eight mics easily. The other option I have is to use the Mackie ONYX 1620 mixing console, which has eight microphone inputs. The problem with the second option is that, as I mentioned earlier, my version of Pro Tools does not support the Mackie ONYX 1620, so I would have to run all of my drum mics out of the mixer, into my Fast Track C600, and finally into Pro Tools as one stereo track. This means that I would have to get my sound levels and EQing exactly right for each channel before we recorded it. Today I spend some time experimenting with different mics to see if I can get a good sound that I want for my project while only using three or four microphones or if I just want to mic up the whole drum set and hope I can EQ everything the way I want it beforehand. I haven’t yet decided what I’m going to do, but I’m leaning towards the fewer mics approach. Today I also spent making sure everything is charged, clean, and where we need it to be for Monday because when we are trying to record drums for an entire EP in one week, its would probably not be too fun to be looking around for mic cables or drum sticks. Over all its been a really good first two weeks and I’m very excited to actually start recording.