Recording session, DONE! But..... it was a CHALLENGING one.

Finally, after long weeks of our music recording session and burning a lot of our energy, we have satisfyingly completed the recording, on week 6. Now we are left with our post production. We hope to make it ASAP because according to our recording schedule, we are late by a week. We are supposed to complete the music by the end of week 6 but it does not turns the way we hope for due to several reasons. However, we will try our best to keep the ball on track because we do not want to make this delay of our music recording session to hinder on our main objective of making a music video.

For these past few weeks of recording, it was fun despite the tiredness because we enjoy on what we do. In spite of this, there were also several problems that we faced unknowingly. From the first day of recording, most of the time comes from the troubleshooting of patches from Pro Tools because it has been a long time that we have not used Studio 2. The last time that we have used it was during last semester. So, I guess the knowledge of using Studio 2 initially has become rusty to us. But in the end, we are still able to carry on after trying our best and only depend with the help from our friends and Facilitator, Mr Lavanath if needed.

Other than that, there was one session that we wasted our time on troubleshooting. It seems that we are not able to find signals coming from several microphones in Pro Tools. I think we spent like an hour plus finding the solution. After knowing the problem, we found out that there were 3 to 4 faulty XLR cables from the STA Lab. We were frustrated that why those faulty cables are still given to us and this really brought a waste of our time. Luckily, we did asked for extra XLR cables just in case and even one of us brings along his XLR with him. It seems that we are well prepared:)

Lastly, there is this major problem that really waste a lot of our time in our last recording session. This happens when we came back from our next session whereby we found out that all of our tracks shifted slightly, not in sync. So, we had to manually do the shifting ourselves. I think we spent about a several hours on rectifying the problem. We were really disappointed as we still have the last vocal recording to be done. Due to this, we have to do another recording session for the last time again and then off to our post production. As for the post production, we are aiming to complete by next week. So, we will be a week late according to our recording schedule. But, we hope to cover that delay from our process of the video recording, next.

Hope everything goes smoothly and fine.
We can do it guys!

Much love,
Ariffin Kamsuri