Here's my finished portfolio! For mine, I delved back from the past two years to find my favorite mixes and the parts of them that make them great and unique. Here they are:

Ohio Roots by PLG
Harvest Towns by Jon Allen
The Hope of Loving, I. Yield to Love and II. Wild Forces by Jake Runestad
I'm Always Right by Montezuma

Hope you like it!

For my second tracking session I was able to get the band, Montezuma to come in and help me out. My friend Joel plays the drums in the band and it was through him that I was able to book the band. Thankfully they were able to all come into the studio during a really good week and gave me plenty of time to do a great mix!
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​For the first part of our live recording extraveganza, we had to research how to mic up some different ensembles (choir, orchestra, and ensembles). So, first, I'll take you through some of my findings.
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This week we were tasked with learning how to use Auto-tune by auto-tuning a mix we were given and then mixing it as well. I haven't used auto-tune a lot, so this was a good exersize for me to get back into it and get some real practice using the essential plug-in.
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For our design-your-own shootout, I decided to look into something that’s always been a mystery to me--recording taiko drums. Even looking on the internet, there aren’t a lot of professional articles at all about how, or what microphones to use, in order to properly capture the sound on a taiko drum The sound itself consists of the sound of the bachi hitting the head, as well as the low boom creating from the large drum. This can be really hard to capture all the sounds at once, so I’m going to go through a lot of different microphones to see which ones are best, and what combination of microphones would create the full range of sounds produced by the drum.

This week we were tasked with finishing up our mixes after the critique we received during our weekly class. Even just listening to my mix in Studio E brought up a lot of things I myself wanted to fix, but the input from the class made me realize a lot of things were definitely needing to be changed. All the levels I felt were pretty good, but I touched up a few things, like the guitar solo as well as the vocals and how to make them sound thicker, but also limit my use on the second recording of the vocal.
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This week I was super excited to get our tracking session under way. It's always fun when a band comes in and you get to see all of their creative talents and be able to mix a song! For this project, I was able to reach out to a friend of mine, Will Ash, and see if he would like a recording for a band of his. He's also in the percussion studio and a super good drummer, so I knew any of his bands would be great. In the end, we were able to record with one he had recently been in, PLG (Peace Love & Ganja). The band consists of Will Ash on drums, Ryan O'Shaughnessy on guitar and vocals, and Rob Sorg on bass. They're style can be described as Reggae, Funk, or World music. The song they played for us on Friday night was entitled, "Ohio Roots," and emphasizes the love for Ohio as well as a form of peaceful protest for cannabis legalization after Ryan was told that was the best way to recover form his illness.