SOUND MIXING TOUR

Hi lads.

Thank you to those of you who came at HALLOWEEN PARTY 2011 last sunday!
I hope you all had fun!

My name is Yusuke "Vash" Okada, and today I would like to talk a bit about my major, BECA.
A lot of you probably have not heard this major I assume. It stands for Broadcasting and Electronic communication arts. What students in this department basically do is 'making TV/Radio programs and Music'.
I am focusing on the audio production emphasis, and actually today was my midterm sound mixing day. SO, I would like to take you guys to a small tour of the SFSU music studio.

It is located in the basement of creative arts building, the room # is CA 40. Today my sound buddies and I mixed a song of semi-professional spanish band called "Sergio y Tierra"

Here is the broad that we use for the sound mix. Look how many buttons and faders there are... Trust me, they all have a specific job to do. This band is a 4 piece band, which means they have Vocal, Guitar, Bass, and Drums..But in the sound mix, because the sound of each instrument is recorded using several mics, we got about 20 different sound tracks to mix.

The effect boxes and cable connections. Each instrument needs specific effects, so we have to connect all sound signals right!

We monitor the sound by using the software in the computer, and record the song on to this old-school looking tape! A mixture of the latest and old-fashioned technology!

The whole mixing session took about an hour. 

I would have liked to take some more pics tho, like I said, It was during the midterm...so, this is the end of the tour.

Luckily this was the last midterm for the semester!

Good Luck to those of you who still have more midterms coming up! 

Thanksgiving break is almost there, so hang on!!

in a bit. 

Vash

The Awesome Places in SF

Hey, guys.

I’m Daisuke Nemoto. I am a member of the JSA career team. I’m not good writer, so you don’t care if you find some grammar mistakes.

Today, I am going to show you guys the places I visited on the weekend. I attended my friend’s engagement party at The Place of Fine Arts in San Francisco. It was originally built for the 1915 Pan-Pacific Exposition.

I love walking around with seeing beautiful architectures and ducks in the pond.  Also, here is the great place to relax; everybody takes a nap on the lawn. I recommend you visiting the place to get away from it all. The Palace of Fine Arts Theatre has convenient access to public transportation. We are accessible by San Francisco Muni buses #30, #43, #28, and #29. Muni bus lines #22, #41, and #45 also stop in the vicinity.

Anyways, these pictures are at the Place of Fine Arts.

The picture is while doing the cake cut. She looks so happy.

After the party, I had a dinner at SF Japan town. You know YakiniQ is the all you can eat Korean BBQ. The price is reasonable for $20 each person. Very nice foods, nice music, and friendly staffs make you happy for sure. You just keep in mind YakiniQ is always packed to capacity at a dinnertime, so you had better to sign up early. 

Every week!? the JSA officers are supposed to upload the blog. Hopefully you enjoy reading. Who's next?

East Bay Punk's Not Dead

Hi guys!

This is Akira Ogiso. I’m an officer of JSA Career Team.

            Today I’d like to show you guys one of the hottest clubs in Bay Area. For those of you who are native English speaker, club is a place where it serves drinks and snacks with playing different kinds of music, and the bands can play a gig as well. For those of you who are native Japanese speaker, club means a nightclub where people dance while DJs are playing Hip Hop and R&B. So, do NOT consider me as a nightclubbing guy!! I am a PUNK rocker!!
            Well first of all, I have one question. How come people today don’t know how to listen to the rock music?! Whenever I go to a music concert, I see many people are just standing and watching the bands. Of course it depends on what kind of music they play, but if you go to a punk rock show, there is no reason not to be calm. Wanna mosh, stage dive, and stage surf? Come to the 924 Gilman Street right now!!!
            924 Gilman Street is an all-age, not for profit, collectively organized legendary music club which is located in the West Berkeley area of Berkeley, CA about a mile and a half west of the North Berkeley BART station.

There are four main rules for patrons:
1) No Drugs 2) No Alcohol 3) No Violence 4) No Racism

There is a gig at least once in a week usually on Friday night or weekend. Most of the bands are independent and underground. So, if you are really sick of those commercialized MTV sellout rock bands, Gilman is the place where you can find the real punk bands. I mean ‘‘REAL’’ punk spirit bands!!!

I usually go there once in two weeks to check some hot, local indie bands. You might be scare of these spiky hair punks wearing a crazy leather jacket if you come to Gilman. I also dress like them to go to the show.

But they are all nice and kind, so do not hesitate to talk to them! LOL
Gilman has a lot of awesome graphics everywhere on the wall.

This is the hottest bathroom I’ve ever seen in my life!

These cool flyers inform you what bands are coming. I always collect them to decorate my room like Gilman.

             

             Honestly, my primary reason to study abroad to the US is to see the Gilman punk scene. When I was in high school, I was crazy about Green Day and Rancid (Of course I still love them, and finally I was able to go to Rancid show in SF!). They inspired me to be punk, and I really wanted to visit their hometown, which is Barkley CA. They were used to play at Gilman around 90’s when they were still unknown. NOFX, Bad Religion, The Offspring, AFI, and many famous punk bands today were used to have a gig at Gilman as well.

            So why not coming to Gilman? The pit might be little bit dangerous for the punk beginner. You will be sweat a lot, get injure, and sometimes bleed. However, you can get rid of tons of stress from busy school days for sure!!!!!