My music in Studio Blue's commercial clip!

Check out Studio Blue's new commercial, as it's featuring my song "Satisfied"! :D
It's all in Swedish though.

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Posted by Studio Blue on den 21 juli 2015

The full version of Satisfied:

"Satisfied" is now available on Soundcloud!

During the second year at Studio Blue we all had a music production project to manage from start to finish. My project was to record and produce my song "Satisfied", that I made for a Propellerhead competition at the end of the summer 2014.

This is the final result can be heard here, enjoy! :)

Music Production Project @Studio Blue

My education at Studio Blue is soon coming to an end, and last Monday it was time to turn in the final mix for the music production project,  a project that I've been working on the whole second year! (although not full time!)

The purpose of the project was to manage a complete music production from start to end, with the following deadlines:

• Turn in a demo of the song you will produce
• Make a chord sheet for the whole song
• Write music scores for melody and bass, both handwritten and computer made
• Make a plan for all musicians rehearsing
• Make a plan for how long the recordings, rehearsing, mixing etc. should take
• Make a plan on how you will record the different instruments / vocals
• Make a plan for how you will do the mixing
• and finally turn in a final mix of the produced song

Handwritten bass score (That was a lot of eights... )

In my case I wrote a song called "Satisfied" for a competition hosted by Propellerhead in August 2014, just before the school started, and that song was a good choice for this project as it contained several acoustic recordings (electric guitars, bass, vocals, drums and an acoustic guitar). This was also the first time I wrote a song in the metal genre, so it was fun to try something new!

It can seem that one school year is a very long time to produce just one song, but we were only allowed to do recordings for our projects during the 'recording classes', and editing was done during the 'mixing classes', along with other tasks and exercises. We also had to use ProTools 11, which I do not have access to at home so I could only work during school hours. All students in my group also shared the studio time for all their recordings, so the schedule was pretty tight.

The project went along just fine, with no major hassles, though I had to re-record the bass, and also change vocalist during the progress, but as I had added some extra time to the time-plan it was no problem!

The song will be released soon, but if I haven't released it in a week, just wait longer! ;)

The Master mix on Audio CD, and ProTools project folder on DVD.

Mixing @Studio Blue

It's all coming together...  Music project deadline in a week and exam in four weeks! Time's running. Fast! :O  Got to do some mixing in the big studio this morning, and the mix is evolving nicely. It's funny how +/-0.1dBSPL really can make a difference to the mix. Expect the release pretty soon! :)

Getting satisfaction with Satisfied

Vocals recording @Studio Blue

Recorded the new vocals today for the Satisfied project, which also were the last things to record so I will soon be entering the 'mix state'! The vocals were recorded with AB-stereo using two Line Audio OM1 mikes, and I'm really happy with the result and can't wait until tomorrow when I get to select the best takes!

I also did record myself for the "pre-chorus" vocals, hopefully it will be good enough to use. ;)

Thanks to Mr Christofer Kohn for the vocals, and Mr "Roberto" (a.k.a Rasmus Klåskas ;) ) for driving Protools, and Carin Hallin for taking the picture! :)

Where the magic happens...

 

Bass recording @Studio Blue

Did some bass recording for the Satisfied project with Billy the Fox from Fox & Paradise Productions today, since I wasn't satisfied with the previous recording made in January.

Big thanks to Billy and his modified (bypassed EQ, bypassed volume knobs and a female stereo output jack) J & D bass for a great performance! :) \m/

Vocal tryout @Studio Blue

Vocalist nr2 tryout session in the B-studio today, for the Satisfied project. We both were satisfied (pun intended! :) ) with the result and the final recording will be done in Thursday next week. Until then I will also write a fitting second vocal part.

Thanks to Christofer Kohn for making the air pressure variations. Visit his Soundcloud-page here!

Recording of Mr Kohn.

Vocal Recording@Studio Blue

Tonight I recorded the vocals for my school project song call "Satisfied" at Studio Blue. I used a pair of DPA 4050 microphones in AB-configuration. Thanks to Leo for the vocals, and Rasmus for helping me in the control room. \m/ :)

Guitar recording @Studio Blue

Guitar recording session nr2 for my school project "Satisfied" was made today. Rasmus played the centered distorted electric guitar and Carloz played the electric guitar solo and also the acoustic guitar for the break and outro.

Both recordings were done in stereo with a set of DPA 4050 microphones. The amp of the electric guitar was made through a Peavey 5150 hooked up to a 4x12" cabinet, with only two speakers active.

Next on the ToDo-list is vocal recording.

Recording Carloz on acoustic guitar