assignment #2 – music 174a

record a solo acoustic instrument that is not piano 1:30 to 3 minutes

1. choose 2 of the following techniques, choose techniques which compliment the style of music.

• -use 2 close microphones
• -use a close microphone and distant microphone
• -use a stereo pair
• -use a stereo pair and close microphone

2. record on separate labelled tracks in protools

3. document your project, describe why you used each microphone, why you chose the positions you choose, describe the sound of each microphone. note the position and type of microphones used for each track

4. mix down to a stereo track in protools

5. save everything to a folder named with your last names and “a2”. put this folder in the 174a folder on the class drive

6. present in class, each person will need to talk about what they did

7. quality of recording will be part of the grade

work in the following groups

1) Raymond S Lim – Crystal Jiao – John Anthony D’Agostini

2) Grant Parker Hovander – Camden Robert Greenwood

3) Cory Jonathan Banh – Camille Angela Latzke – Jacob Michael Ugalde

4) Daniela Andrea Chaparro – William Joseph-Glen Carlisle – Chloe Jessica Bari

5) Matthew Harrison Rice – Kostyantyn Chumakov – James Forest Reid

6) Salvador Zamora – Christopher Patrick Loree – Caleb Michael Hess

7) Francis Kyle Galang – Kenroe Ervin Ang

8) Gregory Tazmond Farley – Yidai Li – Joyce Hwayoung Park

9) Aldo Marcel Mojica – Tracy Nicole Levick – Cordane Omari Richardson

10) Chi Zhang – Jorge Alberto Jiron Villarreal – Lizbeth Rios

Due Tuesday Week 7 – November 14th