RECORDING

I got a good introduction to pro tools today as Nicola had used it before and we decided to use it to record with. Taking the Little Red Riding Hood idea, I copied the story I had previously written, (just on good old fashioned paper) ready to take into the recording studio. Nicola and I chose to extract words or phrases from the text, that we liked and were a summarisation of the ideas behind the story. We then ended up with a shorter story that didn't make much sense as a whole, which was fine because we plan to chop it up anyway. It looks like this:

Once upon a time unsatisfied with previous lovers seek knowledge rightful path she became distracted tempted by a tall dark handsome green-eyed stranger life long passion to re-invent men his wicked way the horny male arrived feel to force gagged gigolo conversing when we're done instantaneously after ejaculation dirty deed little red riding hood had anticipated females conspired then castrated testicles pebbles afoot sinister cackling awoke brain removed hermit practice tantric sex wise old spinster

We set the desk, speakers and microphone up. We only needed 2 speakers rather than 5 that were set up so changed the 1/0 settings to 'stereo mix'. We checked the levels to make sure we got a good sound by going next door into the live room where the mic was. The sample rate was set to 48khz and bit depth to 24 bit, this is dvd quality so would be great for what we needed. We did 4 recordings, 2 for each of us. We spoke the first one just in plain story form. We then made the second one more dynamic, I wanted to get as much variation in the vocals as we could so we would have a good basis to work from. After recording, the first vocal was slightly louder than the other 3 so we normalised it to take out any extra loud bits and brought the gain down to lower the levels . The other takes were fine so we chopped the beginnings and endings off (where we were speaking to each other before and after takes) and pieced the 4 together to make just 1 audio file. We then bounced the file and saved it on Nicola's dard drive. Tomorrow we are going to use Logic to chop up the file and re-arrange it ready to use with the midi suit. I haven't used Logic yet so i will know how much we can actually do with it once I've had a play with it.