Sound Check.
Wednesday, July 4, 2007In efforts to understand and appreciate my boyfriend's music world better, I went with him to his late night (or wee hours of the morning) recording at his sound engineer's place, who, thankfully lived on the same street as me. So we went to his place and his room is just wacked, its painted a dark shade of grey and even the ceiling is painted. He padded and carpeted the entire room and the most massive and most distinct piece of furniture in his room was his altar - this huge table which housed his gigantic computer screen, speakers, keyboards, turntable, amps and all that recording equipment. Seriously, his single-sized bed looked minuscule next to it.
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Surprisingly, despite nearly dozing off a couple of times (after my PSP decided to die on me), I actually enjoyed myself. But I didn't really tell him that I liked the experience. It was great watching how a song is put together. Seeing stuff like these makes you appreciate songs better. Yes, you need a good a set of lyrics and a great idea for the whole melody and stuff like that. But most people never really see the technical production side of songs so they take it for granted that it's all so easy. So now I know why people who win the Grammys and music awards thank a lot of people in their speeches cuz there really are a lot of people behind one song.
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I didn't get most of what they were talking about though, some weird music jargon to me. It went something like this "I guess we could do cnb vsj,hvbfkn with akfhvuybgakjvhdb instrumentation and ahbv bhsn cndfv once we get the rough recording… keep two good takes and later we can akjtfhbvjgnva sjkb it with the akhdb vcjsvhjnc."
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So there, I'm really happy I went with him. Okay, sweetie, there I said it, alright? But please don't tease me about it. Hahahaha.
