Specialising and Exhibiting
Mixing and Mastering in Protools (Multi-channels)
Protools is very confusing and it takes ages for me to understand the I/O settings. I feel very proud of myself that I am able to use PT for my final mix though I am not really into mastering it. I find out the school does not have a loudness plugin which is a bit confusing because you never know how to balance the volume without a metering plug-in that can accurately tell you.
“When I moved to the performance lab in the London college of communication with my stereo instrumental tracks. I was nearly driving myself up the wall. I found out everything settled on the pan was nonsense and mono tracks sounded cleaner on GRM space than stereo tracks when in transactions. There were also trouble shootings like fire alarms and unexpected troubles on bouncing stereos to Monos with plugins as well. Luckily, I overcame all of them. I was also amazed by the GRM grain space which blended my voice comfortably into the other instrumental tracks.”
All the plugins I used were GRM space, GRM space grain, Q8, and studio reverb. (Easy things for spatialisation) I put the piano and glass harmonica into all of the speakers because I define them as my major and main actresses. I put the Zhengs all rotated in the middle size, and apply a contrast orbit over the high Zheng and low Zheng. I put the flutes rotated the fastest and did a lot of automation with the crazy flute actors. I put the drums company rotated slowest because they made me feel stable and kind of relaxed in the environment. The strings company and voice company all had a small boom so I put gum space gram to give them a little bit of specialty. I love how one of the voice tracks was spinning very quickly and almost you could not hear clearly blending it with the rest tracks. I gave the surrounding rain a spiral orbit which made the rooftop feel like rain. Owing to the lacking visual configuration and non-diegetic sounds, I recorded some weird sounds from her creative sound installations as well as made electronic sounds on MAX MSP.
Maybe all of the automation sounded a bit not enough right now because of the lack of time and I also tried to balance everything. But it won’t be a boring piece because instead of having a climax, it has plenty of small peaks, which would be intriguing… The sound of stimulus and chaotic movements are quite good:)
We couldn’t assure the audience to stay for the whole piece.