Mississippi Seven@Jano

Tonight's performance was the Mississippi Seven, playing jazz from the 20's and 30's. The setup tonight was stereo output from the piano, 3 singing / talk mikes, a lined signal from the sousaphone and a support mike for the sax.

This evening our classmates from Studio Blue were visiting, and got to see the place and how we work! To sum up; a good gig with satisfied performers and audience. :)

Next week is the final gig for this season, and it will also be the last time Daniel and I will be working there.

Missisippi Seven

The Sousaphone a.k.a Tuba Constrictor

Release of "You Remix"

Once upon a time, in 2009, one of my sisters got married and therefore I wrote a song to her and her fiancé, a song called "You". In 2012 I made a remix of that song, called "Steps".

In 2014 at Studio Blue, I made a new version of the original song for the school's song contest (see earlier post), and now I have made a new remix based on the 2014 version of "You".

Here it is! Crank it up, and enjoy! :)

Audio, Video and Lighting Expo@Älvsjömässan and another mixsession@Studio Blue

Today all students at Studio Blue went to the "Audio, Video and Lighting Expo" at Älvsjömässan as part of the school day. Unfortunately there were more video and lighting products than audio gear so it was hard to find stuff that was of my personal interest, except for a few things and the cool drones of course! ;)

Foto/Video drone

Foto/Video drone

A 3D printed drone!

Cool light

My biggest fan, Rasmus!

Some designed speakers by Void

Rasmus trying a game using Oculus Rift and Falcon 3D joysticks

Roland M-200i mixer console

Midas ProX console

After the expo, I went back to Studio Blue to do some (final?) mixing on the You Remix track. There is just one more thing I need to fix before release, so maybe I can release it later this week! :)

The A-studio at Studio Blue

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

Recording for a commercial@Studio Blue and Hayati Kafe & Jan Allan with Carefree Big Band@Jano

At lunch time, me and some of the other students gathered at Studio Blue to take part in a video and photo shoot session for a new Studio Blue commercial! The cool thing is that my song "Satisfied" was used during the shoot and will probably be featured in the final video! \m/
We recorded some drums to the pre-recorded guitar tracks and tried to look as natural as possible as they were filming. It's hard to act natural on command! ;)

Movie stars Selma and Rasmus

Alex and Jonas with the project leader, and Rasmus looking innocent :)

Later this day I want to Täby as usual and made the stage ready for a 19 people big band!

Tonight's performance were Hayati Kafe  & Jan Allan together with Carefree Big Band. We got to be in the auditorium once again and we used up all 8 channels on the mixer for piano(stereo miking), electric guitar, electric bass, vocal mike, a talk mike and two mikes for supporting different brass solos. The drums and most of the brass were loud on their own and were played unsupported.

Me tweaking the audio

The Stage

Jan Allan playing the trumpet

Hayati Kafe singing

Grand Piano Recording @Studio Blue

We had a special task today, and that was to record a number of  piano pupils playing the grand piano at Studio Blue. The age of the pupils were from the age under 10 years up to over 65!

Later we will edit the recordings and maybe put some effects on them, and all tracks will be compiled on a (non-commercial) CD.

It was really fun to meet many new people, most of them (if not all) without any experience from a recording studio! They all did a great job! :)

The Dynamic Duo

Top Three @Jano

Due to a water leak in the main room, tonight's gig was moved to the auditorium. Today's performance was a trio called "Top Three", with Ulf Johansson Werre (piano, trombone and vocals),  Hacke Björksten (saxophone) and Hans Backenroth (contrabass). It was the first time we were in this room, but it turned out to be a lot easier to manage the sound in there! The bass wasn't a problem at all, and was both powerful and clear and the total sound was equally good in all areas in the room.

The bass player had a small bass amp on stage which we tapped to the PA system, but we also tapped the bass contact mike and got to mix the two sources. The piano was miked with two Line Audio CM3 and the saxophone was miked with a Shure SM57, but it was barely amplified as it was loud on it's own.

The audience and the performers was very pleased with the sound, and afterwards people came to us and thanked us for the good sound! Always fun to be appreciated! :)

"Top Three"

Daniel at work