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I have chosen to do a technical project as I feel my creative skills and musicality have been able to blossom through logic. I really enjoy making music and tracks from scratch and I want to branch into the songwriting/creating aspect of the music industry as a career and this will propel me in the right direction.

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My concept is to create an EP of four to six songs in Logic using both MIDI instruments and sounds as well as recording my own instruments and vocals. I will be writing each track including melody, lyrics and rhythm myself as I feel this will help me develop my songwriting ability. I grew up reading about mythology and have a love for the stories within Greek myths and how the Gods weren’t perfect and could do no wrong they were extremely flawed and relatable which has inspired me to create a concept album based around these myths. The EP will involve concepts from the myths, certain stories or the people/characters involved in the myth. Each song will have an underlying theme/idea that I am using the myth to explain for example the first track “Asterius” is about The Minotaur – a half bull half man creature within mythology but the concept behind this song is generational rage passed down and the resentment towards your parental figure. I will be using my knowledge in logic as well as exploring new ways of usage, drum sampling and using drum pads and also collaborating with other students and classmates on the EP.

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I will evaluate my work with weekly updates both written and videoing my progress to upload to this padlet. I plan to document the process, what I found easy and what I found challenging and also adding anything I have learned. I plan to use this for my final evaluation also.

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ANGER/HATE/FATHER/RAGE/TRAUMA

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This song is about rage first and foremost. Using the context of the original myth of The Minotaur I am writing about generational rage. How our parents actions can define and transform us for the worst.

The song plan will be in a minor key to reflect this with faster bpm and drum beats with a bassier sound (almost dance music like but still very rock) and heavy guitar riffs.

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Minotaur, in Greek mythology, a fabulous monster of Crete that had the body of a man and the head of a bull. It was the offspring of Pasiphae, the wife of Minos, and a snow-white bull sent to Minos by the god Poseidon for sacrifice. Minos, instead of sacrificing it, kept it alive; Poseidon as a punishment made Pasiphae fall in love with it. Her child by the bull was shut up in the Labyrinth created for Minos by Daedalus.

A son of Minos, Androgeos, was later killed by the Athenians; to avenge his death, Minos demanded that seven Athenian youths and seven maidens should be sent every ninth year (or, according to another version, every year) to be devoured by the Minotaur. When the third time of sacrifice came, the Athenian hero Theseus volunteered to go, and, with the help of Ariadne, daughter of Minos and Pasiphae, he killed the monster and ended the tribute. Theseus escaped with Ariadne. A modern version of the tale is told in Mary Renault's novel The King Must Die (1958).

The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica Adam Augustyn.

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Bestiary >> Minotaur (Minotauros)

Transliteration

Minôtauros

Theseus and the Minotaur, Athenian black-figure kylix C6th B.C., Toledo Museum of Art

THE MINOTAUROS (Minotaur) was a bull-headed monster born to Queen Pasiphae of Krete (Crete) after she coupled with a bull. The creature resided in the twisting maze of the labyrinth where it was offfered a regular sacrifice of youths and maidens to satisfy its cannibalistic hunger. The beast was eventually slain by the hero Theseus.

The Minotauros' proper name Asterion, "the starry one," suggests he might have been associated with the constellation Tauros.

FAMILY OF THE MINOTAUR

PARENTS

THE KRETAN BULL & PASIPHAE (Apollodorus 3.8, Callimachus Hymn 4.311, Diodorus Siculus 4.77.1, Philostratus Elder 1.16, Hyginus Fab. 40, Ovid Metamorphoses 8.130, Virgil Aeneid 6.24, Suidas)

ENCYCLOPEDIA

MINOTAURUS (Minôtauros), a monster with a human body and a bull's head, or, according to others, with the body of an ox and a human head; is said to have been the offspring of the intercourse of Pasiphaë with the bull sent from the sea to Minos, who shut him up in the Cnossian labyrinth, and fed him with the bodies of the youths and maidens whom the Athenians at fixed times were obliged to send to Minos as tribute. The monster was slain by Theseus. It was often represented by ancient artists either alone in the labyrinth, or engaged in the struggle with Theseus. (Paus. i. 24. § 2, 27, in fin. iii. 18. § 7; Apollod. iii. 1. § 4, 15. § 8.)
Source: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.
ALTERNATE NAMES

CLASSICAL LITERATURE QUOTES

Theseus and the Minotaur, Athenian red-figure stamnos C5th B.C., British Museum

Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3. 8 - 11 (trans. Aldrich) (Greek mythographer C2nd A.D.) :
"Minos aspired to the throne [of Krete (Crete)], but was rebuffed. He claimed, however, that he had received the sovereignty from the gods, and to prove it he said that whatever he prayed for would come about. So while sacrificing to Poseidon, he prayed for a bull to appear from the depths of the sea, and promised to sacrifice it upon its appearance. And Poseidon did send up to him a splendid bull. Thus Minos received the rule, but he sent the bull to his herds and sacrificed another . . . Poseidon was angry that the bull was not sacrificed, and turned it wild. He also devised that Pasiphae should develop a lust for it. In her passion for the bull she took on as her accomplice an architect named Daidalos (Daedalus) . . . He built a woden cow on wheels, . . . skinned a real cow, and sewed the contraption into the skin, and then, after placing Pasiphae inside, set it in a meadow where the bull normally grazed. The bull came up and had intercourse with it, as if with a real cow. Pasiphae gave birth to Asterios (Asterius), who was called Minotauros (Minotaur). He had the face of a bull, but was otherwise human. Minos, following certain oracular instructions, kept him confined and under guard in the labyrinth. This labyrinth, which Daidalos built, was a 'cage with convoluted flextions that disorders debouchment.'"

Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3. 213 :
"The god [i.e. the oracle of Delphoi (Delphi)] told them [the Athenians] to give Minos [king of Krete (Crete)] whatever retribution he should chose . . . He ordered them to send seven young men and seven girls, unarmed, to be served as food to the Minotauros (Minotaur). The Minotauros was kept in a labyrinth, from which there was no escape after one entered, for it closed off its imperceivable exit with convoluted flexions. It had been constructed by Daidalos (Daedalus)."

Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca E1. 7 - 1. 9 :
"Theseus was on the list of the third tribute to the Minotauros (Minotaur)--some day he volunteered--. . . [Ariadne] pleaded with Daidalos (Daedalus) to tell her the way out of the labyrinth. Following his instructions, she gave Theseus a ball of thread as he entered. He fastened this to the door and let it trail behind him as he went in. He came across the Minotauros in the furthest section of the labyrinth, killed him with jabs of his fist, and then made his way out again by pulling himself along the thread."

Callimachus, Hymn 4 to Delos 311 ff (trans. Mair) (Greek poet C3rd B.C.) :
"[Theseus] escaped the cruel bellowing and the wild [Minotauros (Minotaur)] son of Pasiphae and the coiled habitation of the crooked labyrinth."

Strabo, Geography 10. 4. 8 (trans. Jones) (Greek geographer C1st B.C. to C1st A.D.) :
"[Minos] was tyrannical, harsh, and an exactor of tribute, representing in tragedy the story of the Minotauros (Minotaur) and the Labyrinth, and the adventures of Theseus and Daidalos (Daedalus)."

Pausanias, Description of Greece 1. 24. 1 (trans. Jones) (Greek travelogue C2nd A.D.) :
"[On the Akropolis (Acropolis) in Athens] is represented the fight which legend says Theseus fought with the so-called Tauros (Bull) of Minos [the Minotauros], whether this was a man or a beast of nature he is said to have been in the accepted story. For even in our time women have given birth to far more extraordinary monsters than this."

Pausanias, Description of Greece 1. 27. 10 :
"Minos sailed against Athens with a fleet, not believing that the Athenians were innocent of the death of Androgeos (Androgeus) [killed by the Marathonian Bull], and sorely harassed them until it was agreed that he should take seven maidens and seven boys for the Minotauros (Minotaur) that was said to dwell in the Labyrinth at Knossos."

Athena, Theseus and the Minotaur, Athenian red-figure kylix C5th B.C., National Archaeological Museum of Spain

Pausanias, Description of Greece 2. 31. 1 :
"In the market-place of Troizenos (Troezen) [in Argolis] is a temple of Artemis Soteira (Saviour), with images of the goddess. It was said that the temple was founded and the name Soteria (Saviour) given by Theseus when he returned from Krete after overcoming Asterion [the Minotauros (Minotaur)] the son of Minos."

Pausanias, Description of Greece 3. 18. 10 - 16 :
"[Amongst the scenes depicted on the throne of Apollon at Amyklai (Amyclae) :] I cannot say why Bathykles (Bathycles) has represented the Bull of Minos bound, and being led along alive by Theseus . . . There is represented the fight between . . . Theseus and the Bull of Minos ( Tauron ton Mino) [the Minotauros]."

Diodorus Siculus, Library of History 4. 61. 4 (trans. Oldfather) (Greek historian C1st B.C.) :
"[Minos demands compensation from the Athenians for the murder of his son Androgeus :] Minos commanded them that they give seven youths and as many maidens every nine years to the Minotauros (Minotaur) for him to devour, for as long as the monster should live. And when the Athenians gave them, the inhabitants of Attika (Attica) were rid of their evils and Minos ceased warring on Athens . . . Theseus after conversing with her [Ariadne, daughter of Minos] and securing her assistance, both slew the Minotauros and got safely away, since he had learned from her the way out of the labyrinth."

Diodorus Siculus, Library of History 4. 77. 1 :
"Pasiphae, the wife of Minos, became enamoured of the bull [the Cretan Bull], and Daidalos (Daedalus), by fashioning a contrivance in the shape of a cow, assisted Pasiphae to gratify her passion. In explanation of this the myths offer the following account: before this time it had been the custom of Minos annually to dedicate to Poseidon the fairest bull born in his herds and to sacrifice it to the god; but at the time in question there was born a bull of extraordinary beauty and he sacrificed another from among those which were inferior, whereupon Poseidon becoming angry at Minos, caused his wife Pasiphae to become enamoured of the bull. And by means of the ingenuity of Daidalos Pasiphae had intercourse with the bull and gave birth to the Minotauros (Minotaur), famed in the myth. This creature, they say, was of double form, the upper parts of the body as far as the shoulders being those of a bull and the remaining parts those of a man. As a place in which to keep this monstrous thing Daidalos, the story goes, built a labyrinth, the passage-ways of which were so winding that those unfamiliar with them had difficulty in making their way out; in this labyrinth the Minotaur was maintained and here it devoured the seven youths and seven maidens which were sent to it from Athens, as we have already related."

Plutarch, Life of Theseus 15. 1 & 17. 3 & 19. 1 (trans. Perrin) (Greek historian C1st to C2nd A.D.) :
"[The young Theseus arrives in Athens :] Not long afterwards there came from Krete (Crete) for the third time the collectors of the tribute . . . an agreement to send him [Minos] every nine years a tribute of seven youths and as many maidens. And the most dramatic version of the story declares that these young men and women, on being brought to Krete, were destroyed by the Minotauros (Minotaur) in the Labyrinth, or else wandered about at their own will and, being unable to find an exit, perished there; and that the Minotauros, as Euripides says, was 'A mingled form and hybrid birth of monstrous shape', and that 'Two different natures, man and bull, were joined in him' . . . . Hellanikos (Hellanicus) . . . says the agreement was that the Athenians should furnish the ship, and that the youths should embark and sail with him carrying no warlike weapon, and that if the Minotauros was killed the penalty should cease.
On the two former occasions, then, no hope of safety was entertained, and therefore they sent the ship with a black sail, convinced that their youth were going to certain destruction; but now Theseus encouraged his father and loudly boasted that he would master the Minotauros, so that he gave the pilot another sail, a white one, ordering him, if he returned with Theseus safe, to hoist the white sail, but otherwise to sail with the black one, and so indicate the affliction . . . When he reached Krete on his voyage, most historians and poets tell us that he got from Ariadne, who had fallen in love with him, the famous thread, and that having been instructed by her how to make his way through the intricacies of the Labyrinth, he slew the Minotauros and sailed off with Ariadne and the youths."

Theseus and the Minotaur, Athenian red-figure kylix C6th B.C., Musée du Louvre

Philostratus the Elder, Imagines 1. 16 (trans. Fairbanks) (Greek rhetorician C3rd A.D.) :
"[Description of an ancient Greek painting :] Pasiphae is in love with the bull and begs Daidalos (Daedalus) to devise some lure for the creature; and he is fashioning a hollow cow like a cow of the herd to which the bull is accustomed. What their union brought forth is shown by the form of the Minotauros (Minotaur), strangely composite in its nature."

Philostratus, Life of Apollonius of Tyana 4. 34 (trans. Conybeare) (Greek biography C1st to C2nd A.D.) :
"[Apollonios of Tyana] sailed to Knossos (Cnossus) [in Krete (Crete)], where a labyrinth is shown, which, I believe, once on a time, contained the Minotauros (Minotaur)."

Pseudo-Hyginus, Fabulae 40 - 43 (trans. Grant) (Roman mythographer C2nd A.D.) :
"Pasiphae, daughter of Sol [Helios] and wife of Minos, for several years did not make offerings to the goddess Venus. Because of this Venus inspired in her an unnatural love for a bull. At the time when Daedalus came there as an exile, he asked her to help him. For her he made a wooden heifer, and put in it the hide of a real heifer, and in this she lay with the bull. From this intercourse she bore the Minotaur, with bull's head but human body. Then Daedalus made for the Minotaur a labyrinth with an undiscoverable exit in which it was confined. When Minos found out the affair he cast Daedalus into prson, but Pasiphae freed him from his chains . . .
After he [Minos] conquered the Athenians their revenues became his; he decreed, moreover that each year they should send seven of their children as food for the Minotaur. After Theseus had come from Troezene, and had learned what a calamity afflicted the state, of his own accord he promised to go against the Minotaur . . . When Theseus came to Crete, Ariadne, Minos' daughter, loved him so much that she betrayed her brother and saved the stranger, or she showed Theseus the way out of the Labyrinth. When Theseus had entered and killed the Minotaur, by Ariadne's advise he got out by unwinding the thread. Ariadne, because she had been loyal to him, he took away, intending to marry her."

Pseudo-Hyginus, Fabulae 38 :
"He [Theseus] killed the Minotaur in the town of Cnossus."

Ovid, Metamorphoses 8. 130 ff (trans. Melville) (Roman epic C1st B.C. to C1st A.D.) :
"That adulteress [Pasiphae] who in a cow of wood beguiled a savage bull and bore a monster [the Minotaur] in her womb! . . . His [Minos'] dynasty's disgrace has grown; the monstrous beast [Minotauros] hybrid beast declared the queen's obscene adultery. To rid his precincts of this shame the king planned to confine him shut away within blind walls of intricate complexity. The structure was designed by Daedalus, that famous architect. Appearances were all confused; he led the eye astray by a mazy multitude of winding ways . . . Daedalus in countless corridors built bafflement, and hardly could himself make his way out, so puzzling was the maze. Within this labyrinth Minos shut fast the beast, half bull, half man, and fed him twice on Attic blood, lot-chosen each nine years, until the third choice mastered him. The door, so difficult, which none of those before could find again, by Ariadne's aid was found, the thread that traced the way rewound."

Ovid, Heroides 2. 67 ff (trans. Showerman) (Roman poetry C1st B.C. to C1st A.D.) :
"With record of his [Theseus'] deeds. When men shall have read of . . . the mingled form of bull and man [i.e. the Minotaur]."

Ovid, Heroides 4. 59 ff :
"[Theseus] the faithless son of Aegeus followed the guiding thread, and escaped from the winding house through the aid my sister [Ariadne] gave."

Ovid, Heroides 4. 113 ff :
"The bones of my [Phaedra's] brother [the Minotaur] he [Theseus] crushed with his triple-knotted club and scattered o'er the ground; my sister [Ariadne] he left at the mercy of wild beasts."

Labyrinth of the Minotaur, Greco-Roman mosaic from Villa on the Via Cadolini C1st A.D., Archaeological Museum of Cremona

Ovid, Heroides 10. 99 ff :
"[Ariadne laments after being abandoned by Theseus on Naxos :] O, that Androgeos (Androgeus) [Ariadne's brother] were still alive, and that thou, O Cecropian land [Athens], hadst not been made to atone for thy impious deeds with the doom of thy children! [I.e. the children sent to Krete (Crete) to feed the Minotaur.] And would that thy upraised right hand, O Theseus, had not slain with knotty club him [the Minotauros] that was man in part, and in part bull; and I had not given thee the thread to show the way of thy return--thread oft caught up again and passed through the hands led on by it. I marvel not--ah, no!--if victory was thine, and the monster smote with his length the Cretan earth. His horn could not have pierced that iron heart of thine."

Ovid, Heroides 10. 125 ff :
"You [Theseus] will go to the haven of Cecrops; but when you have been received back home, and have stood in pride before your thronging followers, gloriously telling the death of the man-and-bull [the Minotaur], and of the halls of rock cut out in winding ways, tell, too, of me [Ariadne], abandoned on a solitary shore."

Virgil, Aeneid 6. 24 (trans. Day-Lewis) (Roman epic C1st B.C.) :
"Crete rising out of the waves; Pasiphae, cruelly fated to lust after a bull, and privily covered; the hybrid fruit of that monstrous union--the Minotaurus (Minotaur), a memento of her unnatural love."

Propertius, Elegies 4. 4 (trans. Goold) (Roman elegy C1st B.C.) :
"What marvel that the horns of a monster [the Minotaur] were betrayed by his sister [Ariadne], when the twisted path was revealed by the gathering of her thread."

Seneca, Hercules Furens 121 ff (trans. Miller) (Roman tragedy C1st A.D.) :
"He [Daidalos (Daedalus)] should return, mighty in Attic cunning, who shut our monster [the Minotaur] in the dark labyrinth."

Seneca, Phaedra 173 ff :
"[Phaedra's nurse addresses her mistress :] 'Why do monsters cease? Why does thy brother's [the Minotaur's] labyrinth stand empty? Shall the world hear of strange prodigies, shall nature's laws give way, whenever a Cretan woman [i.e. such as Pasiphae] loves?'"

Seneca, Phaedra 647 ff :
"I love, those former looks of his [Theseus'] which once as a youth he had, when his first beard marked his smooth cheeks, when he looked on the dark home of the Cretan monster [the Minotaur], and gathered in the long thread o'er the winding way."

Seneca, Phaedra 687 ff :
"Thy monster-bearing mother [Pasiphae] . . . She did but pollute herself with her shameful lust, and yet her offspring by its two-shaped infamy [the Minotaur] displayed her crime, though long concealed, and by his fierce visage the hybrid child made clear his mother's guilt."

Seneca, Phaedra 1170 ff :
"What Cretan bull [the Minotauros], fierce, two-formed monster, filling the labyrinth of Daedalus with his huge bellowings, has torn thee asunder with his horns?"

Nonnus, Dionysiaca 47. 434 ff (trans. Rouse) (Greek epic C5th A.D.) :
"[Dionysos addresses Ariadne :] 'He [Theseus] shed the blood of the halfbull man [the Minotauros (Minotaur)] whose den was the earthdug labyrinth . . . But you know your thread was his saviour: for the man of Athens with his club would never have found victory in that contest without a rosy-red girl to help him.'"

Suidas s.v. Aigaion pelagos (trans. Suda On Line) (Byzantine Greek Lexicon C10th A.D.) :
"Theseus, the son of Aigeos (Aegeus) the king of Attika (Attica), ruled the Kretans (Cretans) and pursued the Minotauros (Minotaur) into the area of the labyrinthos (and killed him when he was hidden in a cavern. He took to wife the woman Ariadne, who had been born to Minos of Pasiphae, and thus he ruled Krete (Crete)."

Suidas s.v. En panti muthoi kai to Daidalou musos :
"It is said that Pasiphae was in love with a bull and begged Daidalos (Daedalus) to make a wooden cow and rig it up and put her in it; and mounting her like a cow, the bull made her pregnant. From her the Minotauros (Minotaur) was born. Minos for certain reasons became angry with the Athenians and collected a tribute of seven virgins and an equal number of young men from them; they were thrown to the beast."

ANCIENT GREEK & ROMAN ART

SOURCES

GREEK

ROMAN

Hyginus, Fabulae - Latin Mythography C2nd A.D.

Ovid, Metamorphoses - Latin Epic C1st B.C. - C1st A.D.

Ovid, Heroides - Latin Poetry C1st B.C. - C1st A.D.

Virgil, Aeneid - Latin Epic C1st B.C.

Propertius, Elegies - Latin Elegy C1st B.C.

Seneca, Phaedra - Latin Tragedy C1st A.D.

BYZANTINE

Suidas, The Suda - Byzantine Greek Lexicon C10th A.D.

OTHER SOURCES
Other references not currently quoted here: Plutarch Greek Questions 35.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
A complete bibliography of the translations quoted on this page.

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The first thing to consider when mixing vocals is how you want the end result to sound. Di ff erent genres approach vocal mixing in a variety of ways, meaning there are an infinite number of vocal styles at your disposal. Every decision you make throughout the mixing process will have a small impact on the resulting style and feel.

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3 Vocal Production Pre Mixing Processes

There are a number of things that can affect how your vocal will sound before you even start mixing. I like to consider these things as " Pre-Mixing Factors". These factors happen before you technically start " mixing". However, if you do these things right then your mixing job will be a piece of cake.

Pre-Mixing Factors

1. Lyrics
If your vocal has weak lyrics, then his could influence the vocal quality. For instance, a word might sound to "cheesy" or "overused". This doesn't necessarily affect the quality of the audio but it will effect how the listener perceives the vocal. On the other hand, your lyric might have too many syllables or have to many "s's" or harsh sounds. Speaking from experience, harsh sounds can directly affect your vocal mix. Try and use less words with "s's".

2. Melody
A great melody will sound unforgettable and pleasant to the ear. Therefore, having a good vocal melody will be easy to mix within your instrumentation because it's nice to listen too. A harsh, annoying, or distracting vocal melody would be a mixing nightmare.

3. Performance
Although you can accentuate the emotion of a great performance in the mixing process, no amount of mixing will be able to fix a terrible performance. This is the number one thing I'm looking out for when I'm producing an artist. I'd much rather have a good performance than the best microphone in the world. Someone once told me that Adele couldn't nail the performance in Abbey Road Studios for her hit single "Rolling in the Deep". They used Adele's demo vocal instead because she nailed the performance! This happens a lot of the time because most singers choke up with the nerve of being in a studio.

4. Timing
It is important to make sure the timing of your vocal isyour track. This means it has to gel with the instrumentation and the rhythms need to compliment one another. You can do this by chopping the audio and nudging it forward and backward, or you can use Logic's Flex-Time function for flexible timing adjustment. This is much easier to see in my video tutorial on in the pocket with the rest of how to mix vocals in Logic Pro.

5. Editing
When you have your final vocal comp, there often will be extraneous mouth noise present such as lip smacks, breaths, and pops. It is essential to go through your vocal and remove all this unwanted noise if you want a professional vocal sound. I'm a huge advocate of vocal editing. Sometimes this can be quite tedious and annoying to do in the vocal mixing process but it is 100% necessary. It adds a lot of professional polish that most beginner mixers forget to do. A great suite of plugins that can help clean up your vocal track is the Izoptope RX9 plugins. They can help with lip smacks, breaths, de-noising, de-humming, and much more. I think they're great and you'll notice in my videos that I use them a lot.

2 Vocal Production Mixing Processes

There are two vocal mixing processes that I would like to teach you in order to get the professional vocal you're looking to achieve. The first process is mixing your vocal in solo and the second is mixing your vocal in the context of the rest of your song. Both are very important mixing processes.

Mixing In Solo

One type of EQ you might use when mixing in solo is a corrective surgical style of EQ. This could be useful to help remove harsh frequencies from your vocal. Below is an image of my vocal. I'm applying some surgical corrective EQ to specific frequency ranges that I think are harsh. In order to same time here, make sure you are setting yourself up for a great vocal recording. This means spending the time setting the right gain and any other adjustments you might want. For instance, compression and EQ.

2. Autotune
Applying a subtle autotune to your vocal can help to smooth out any pitch issues that may be present in the vocal. I regularly use autotune on my vocal but it's hardly noticeable. This is just a subjective taste for my personal vocal. However, you might want to have a lot of autotune on yours. There is not right or wrong answer. Do whatever sounds good to you.
3. Compression
Compression is an important part of vocal production as it helps smooth out the vocal recording and keep it at a consistent level. I personally like to record with a little bit of compression on. I do this by using the UAD Apollo Twin audio interface which gives you the flexibility to record with vintage compressors, preamps, and EQ's with zero latency.
4. Multiband Compression
Sometimes it can be worthwhile to use some multi-band compression. It's a good idea to add a multi-band compressor plugin if your vocal has harshness in a specific frequency range. In the picture below, multi-band compression was used to tame the 1.5 to 5 kHz frequency range, an area in which harshness can often be present. Especially, in my vocal.
5. De-Essing
De-essing is really important in getting a great vocal mix. A de-esser plugin aims to remove harshness in the high-end caused by "S" and "T" sounds. Since you often want a vocal that has a strong high end presence, removing harsh sibilance will allow you to add colour and presence to the high end without accentuating the harsh "S" sound. This stock Logic Desser plugin is a good option but if you're looking for a paid plugin then I recommend the Izotope de-esser plugin.
6. Colour
When you have achieved a controlled vocal sound free of harshness, this is often the most appropriate time to start adding more " colour" to the vocal. Some plugins such as Fresh Air by Slate Digital are designed not as a corrective tool, but a creative stylistic tool that can add some colour to your vocal sound. Fresh Air can add a pleasant brightness to your vocal sound, but be aware not to go overboard with this plugin as it can result in nasty hissing / buzzing sounds.

Mixing In The Track

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Let's look at how to mix vocals in logic pro and the fundamentals you need to learn in order to record, mix, and produce the perfect vocal take. It's not only a matter of mixing. In order to learn how to mix vocals properly we need to start from the very beginning which includes lyrics and melody.

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Learning correct mixings for sounds I want to produce

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Beginner Tutorial: How to Mix VOCALS in Logic Pro X

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Beginner Tutorial: How to Mix VOCALS in Logic Pro X

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I will be continuously referring back this thread throughout the project.

learned to have vocals on -6.00 while recording to avoid harshness

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1

24th March

Project Action Plan and Timetable

2

31st March

Pictures and videos for evidence

Work on sections – intro/verse/chorus Write and add drum beat

Write and add guitar/rhythm section tweak as I see fit.

Planning to do a vlog style update weekly.

7th April

EASTER HOLIDAY

Play around with dynamics maybe adding synth – ask around for collaborators.

Finalise both songs.

Start the process of Third & fourth song.

Pictures and video updates for evidence.

14th April

EASTER HOLIDAY

Begin writing process for other songs working on lyrics and general melody.

Select bpm for first & second song

Select key and overall feel of first & second song.

Pictures and videos for evidence. Screenshot of logic and samples.

3

21st April

(Bank Holiday Monday)

Work on sections – intro/verse/chorus Write and add drum beat

Write and add guitar/rhythm section tweak as I see fit.

Photos and videos of evidence.

4

28th April

Finalise third/fourth song – make sure levels are correct, is this the sounds I am looking for. Are the concepts/lyrics reflect what I’m going for etc

Video update + photos

5

5th May

(Bank Holiday Monday)

Listen to songs and adjust accordingly. If I have time add another song if not focus on getting the best sound out of the project.

Photo and video update

6

12th May

FINAL GIG

Making last adjustments to songs. Fixing EQ and making sure I’m 100% happy with the project. Potentially promoting on tiktok.

Photos and video updates.

7

19th May

Evaluation and Final Deadline

Entering Olympus EP release date on souncloud/youtube

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The start of it all.

This week I started off with the song Asterius but I really struggled to get the sound I was after so I put it down and picked up Orpheus instead.

This was a good call as I found Orpheus flew out of me luke I had been waiting to write it my whole life.

Orpheus - The Muse tackles the inner struggle of doubt and deception and warped reality. It is a piano focused travk with multiple piano channels to convey every emotion of the story. It is in 3/4 to resemble a waltz. The character im writing about is interanally screaming hence why I added in intentional voice cracks and a more raw sounding vocal.

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Mytikas (Entering Olympus) week update MARCH 7TH

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THE WARRIOR

This week I started the second song Caeneus. Caeneus was about my inner and outer struggle with my trans identity and I actually really struggled to write about that as it felt like I was exposing myself. I rewrote the song twice before I was finally happy. The song is in a major key but with the vocals sounds rather dark which is to directly reflect my conflicting feelings on identity. I still struggle with liking and then hating the song and I think that's the point. It's vulnerable exposing my views to a world full of critics.

Most of my project has been more about the feeling of the songs and the emotional attachment rather than showing skill in particular instruments as I myself never really connect to music unless I feel an emotion is evoked.

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Mytikas (entering Olympus) - week update 20th-30th MARCH

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ASTERIUS

This week I decided to come back to Asterius with fresh ears and eyes. The song has taken a more punk route especially with the drums being the driving force behind it. The song is resentful and angry and I wanted the drums and vocals to add to this so the vocals on this song as pushed through a fuzz pedal to achieve that sound. I also decided to do the entire song on bass guitar in octaves as I wanted a darker sound and guitar simply wasn't cutting it. I think this may be man favourite song on the EP and I am glad I didn't give up on it.

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Mytikas (Entering Olympus) week update APRIL 9TH

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When I attended an Open day for Point Blank Music school they showed us how to add 2 compressors onto your vocal track and reverb to get a nicer sound.

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HALCYON DAYS

The final.

This week I was working on my last and final song (for now) Alcyone - The Halcyon Days. This song is about overcoming obstacles, love and tragedy and still having hope for a future. This song was actually the hardest to write originally with me stopping and starting quite a lot due to not grasping how I really wanted it to sound and battling for if I wanted lyrics or not. I finally settled on the song being more lofi and heavy use of synths with some bass as the may focus, I wanted a dreamlike beach sound which I think I achieved. I decided to add lyrics that heavily reflect to the myth itself with a lot of bird imagery and a lot of references to the sea. (In the myth Alcyone and Sexy become Halcyons (kingfishers) and every winter her father clears the skies for a few days for her to come and lay her nest and eggs.)

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The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica. "Minotaur". Encyclopedia Britannica, 19 Mar. 2025, 7https://www.britannica.com/topic/Minotaur. Accessed 19 March 2025.

Aaron J. Atsma. MINTOTAUR (Minotauros), Theoi Project, UNKNOWN DATE.

MINOTAUR (Minotauros) - Bull-Headed Man of Greek Mythology. Accessed 7 March 2025

The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica. "Orpheus". Encyclopedia Britannica, 28 Feb. 2025, https://www.britannica.com/topic/Orpheus-Greek-mythology. Accessed 7 March 2025.

The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica. "Caeneus". Encyclopedia Britannica, 13 Sep. 2024, https://www.britannica.com/topic/Caeneus. Accessed 7 March 2025.

Hellenic Culture Centre (HCC). "The myth of Alcyone and the Halcyon Days". 2022.

The myth of Alcyone and the Halcyon Days - Hellenic Culture Centre.

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Yannis Samatas. "The Myth of Halcyon and Ceyx." greekmyths-greekmythology.com, 25 May. 2010. Updated 14 May. 2025, https://www.greekmyths-greekmythology.com/myth-of-halcyon-ceyx/.

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Ole Petter Myhren, Subphotic, Nov 30, 2024. Beginner Tutorial: How to Mix VOCALS in Logic Pro X.

Accessed on 15 March 2025

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I created my cover using the knowledge I have for photo editing, created mainly using pics art. the image is of the Orpheus statue by Antonio Canova, edited by myself to look like it is breaking apart the deconstructing of the myths with twists. (the scars added to represent transitioning.)

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A complete rewrite.

This week I wanted to rerecord the guitar for Caeneus. Only to discover the entire project inaccessible so I took the plunge and invited Brooklyn to help start the song from scratch again. We found the correct BPM for the sound I wanted and we started with figuring out chord arrangement before recording guitar and vocals together and then onto the drums.

thank you to brooklyn for all the help.

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While working on my solo project I've also been working hard within my band (Franek At The Disco) towards the mash house gig. This has been incredibly rewarding and we plan to do more gigs in the future.

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Out The Box Fest is Edinburgh College Music�s annual festival, showcasing the incredible talent of our music students from UAL Level 2 and 3, and HND courses. This event is more than just a performance�it’s a celebration of a year�s hard work, creativity, and growth. Across four nights at The Mash House in Edinburgh, students […]

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After listening and listening and listening to my collection of songs, I have decided to bring in a guitarist (Brooklyn) to help with Caeneus. I'm finding this is the hardest song to write and understand my vision for within the project. I've found this project to be a wake up call for what I want to do with myself and my career especially after the gig at the Mash House. I've struggled a lot this year with my self confidence in my artistry and this project was very back and forth for a bit with not understanding what I wanted to say in my music but I've found I've taught myself a lot this year. I've developed my skills within my main instrument (Bass) but I have also picked up instruments I've never touched before like piano. I wrote an entire song on keys without ever having played piano before which I see as a major achievement. I also think my skills have greatly improved within the use of a DAW. Before this year began I had never touched LogicPro or any other DAW and now I am making tracks, painting drums using the pattern maker, picking up new instruments and just really exploring my creativity within my art. This project has really made me become serious about being an artist. Though I did struggle greatly at the start, getting frustrated with myself and not really knowing how this project was going to go in terms of sound quality and I had never recorded before so it was daunting but in the end I am proud of my work.

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The final project.

This EP has been uploaded to both soundcloud and youtube and shared amongst family, friends and the general public. Each song has an insight into the lyrics and meaning of the song if you click the 'behind this track' button.

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The debut EP. MYTIKAS is a collection of 4 songs based upon ancient greek mythos.

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What I've found the most challenging during this whole process was the sound mixing and levels. I struggled a lot with mixing my songs to sound cleaner and I had a lot of issues when it came to mastering and even recording audio. The levels felt off for a few songs so I spent a lot of time messing with sound levels which could have been avoiding if I did more research and tutorials on sound mixing. I also struggled with rushing head first into the project and not taking the time to check whether everything was set up properly leading to a lot of technical issues and loss of hours of work. Another problem I faced was forgetting to write down the chords and notes I was using for every song and this led to complications going back to do rewrites and when my project disappeared and I had no written evidence of the chords I used. If I was to go back and do this project again I would pace myself better and not put as much pressure on myself to get it out and produced as I found I actually had so much spare time to focus on rewrites and rerecording's. I would also note down my chord progressions and keys so I wasn't guessing by ear as this has now made it difficult to be able to perform these live or again even.

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Overall I am extremely proud of the music I've managed to produce and I now want to work towards really establishing who I am as an artist within the industry. I think I have finally found my calling.