{"id":674,"date":"2014-05-26T19:34:29","date_gmt":"2014-05-26T19:34:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/henrysenior.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=674"},"modified":"2014-08-25T18:57:14","modified_gmt":"2014-08-25T18:57:14","slug":"a-bit-of-home-recording","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henrysenior.co.uk\/wordpress\/a-bit-of-home-recording\/","title":{"rendered":"A bit of home recording"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been collaborating with singer\/songwriter Ell Phillips, who asked me to put some pedal steel on her recordings. This has meant I&#8217;ve had to get a bit better at the home recording process. I&#8217;ve got a Zoom R16 which is quite handy, although I wish I had a decent laptop. I borrowed some mics of my mate Dave (cheers Dave I got you a bottle of wine!) and I&#8217;ve got Cubase LE on my PC which allows to cut the tracks up a bit and do some EQ and effects.<\/p>\n<p>I was hoping to get one good take, but I found the structure of Ell&#8217;s song to be pretty hard to learn. So I had to do a few takes and cobble them together in Cubase. This took ages cos all the takes were at slightly different levels and had different timbral characteristics.<\/p>\n<p>Anyhow after lots of EQing, cutting and pasting, compressing and adjusting volume levels, this is how it came out&#8230;<\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-674-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/henrysenior.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/for-im-learning-now.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/henrysenior.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/for-im-learning-now.mp3\">http:\/\/henrysenior.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/for-im-learning-now.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been collaborating with singer\/songwriter Ell Phillips, who asked me to put some pedal steel on her recordings. This has meant I&#8217;ve had to get a bit better at the home recording process. I&#8217;ve got a Zoom R16 which is &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henrysenior.co.uk\/wordpress\/a-bit-of-home-recording\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A bit of home recording<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[11],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henrysenior.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henrysenior.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henrysenior.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henrysenior.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henrysenior.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=674"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.henrysenior.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":676,"href":"https:\/\/www.henrysenior.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674\/revisions\/676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henrysenior.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henrysenior.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henrysenior.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}