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
