Online vocal technique, recording and editing skill class by 19076405@imail.sunway.edu.my

MV/Post production Clip vs Live Clip

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Lets compare how's a same song sung by same artist getting different from live performance and Edited Music Video in different country

Summary of Creative Project

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This is a mock class for teenager that consist of knowledge of basic vocal techniques , practical of vocal recording and editing skill .

Nowadays , teenager were able to enjoy singing as their hobby compare to 90's teenager due to more acceptable of parents from what their children's hobby.Besides , with the more development in era of Information , many people around the world have used social media to publish their own song covers to share their current status in life.For a song cover video , the quality that best shows is its sound quality.Although there are a lot of basic information from Internet to learn vocal production to produce professional quality songs cover audio by themselves but there will faced a lot of try and error obligation under no professional guidance from matured audio engineering . Thus , they will decided to give up when their passion period were ended . Due to the highly demand of teenagers to achieve this outcomes by themselves , I decided to create a mock class like this to lifting up the interesting of teenager towards professional vocals recordings through their experience with professional guidance.

Same as the draft of syllables from my Semester 7 research project , difficulty increases from Grade 1 to Grade 8 . The aspect of minimum achievement for my candidates is Grade 5.The grade is guidance for me to evaluate a candidates ability.

Candidates will be able to experience Logic Pro X as their vocal recording and editing tools.

The mock class is divide in 4stage/4weeks fully with Zoom .
Stage 1/Week 1: Learn the route of hardwares and microphone to their daw to perform vocal recording and draft demo
Stage2/Week 2: Vocal Editing Stage which consist the editing of Pitching , Fading and Volume Automation
Stage3/Week 3: Vocal Sound Quality curving and shaping
Stage4/Week 4:Final checking and correction

Final Outcomes:

Video of tutor and how candidates react to this kind of mock classes

Final report of a summary that what I have achieved ,produce .

Who am I Collaborate in this Project?

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Jacob Vocal Art Studio , a music academy which major in 1-1 professional tutor to kids and teenagers for karaoke music competition and excerpts for examination of University/College music courses . The vocals tutor in this academy were once or currently a professional tutor for music examination from Ofqual such as ABRSM and RCL.The Founder of this academy is Jacob Teo. Before he started this music academy , he had won a Champion in a Asia-Pacific karaoke competition which organised and sponsor by EMI and Sony in 2007.Besides , he had 20 years experience from teaching kids and teenager with his professional lessons since year 2000 .

There plenty of achievement from this academy since 2014.
From 2014 until 2017 , he had successfully trained and sent 1 excellent students each year represent Kids from Malaysia to a China TV Programme by HunanTVShow call "Lets Sings Kids"(中国新声代2-5） from Season 2 until Last Season.
From 2016 until 2021 , he was organized the karaoke competition call "Show your voice Malaysia".

Why the collaboration were emerged?

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During 2020 and 2021 , "Show your voice Malaysia 4.0 " and "Show your voice Malaysia 5.0 "were organized with video participation through online due to serious of covid pandemic issues .Most of his students who are talented were shown more their disadvantages during the competition due to the low quality of music videos.

Hence, he need to find a way to increase his students music cover quality and promoting his music academy through music cover video with professional recording material.

So, after my internship in this academy .I have propose to Mr.Jacob to start a collaboration of this kind of class. Hence , I have a chance to create a mock class under the associate of him and his students.

Weekly Timeline Schedule

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Week 1: Communicate with collaborator

Week 2 : Equipment Introduction and process of set up

Week 3 : Literature review and analysis on vocal recording and editing from different country

Week 4 : Literature review on Pedagogies method and peer review report

Week 5 : Tuning according to Supervisor's Comments

Week 6 : Confirmation of Tutor Context
Week 7 : TimeArrangement

Mid Break/Confirmation

Week 8 : Stage1-Vocal recording and draft demo

Week 9 : Stage 2-Vocal Editing in Pitching and Volume

Week 10 : Stage 3-Vocal Quality shaping

Week 11 :Stage 4-Finalize and Correction/Interview candidates

Week 12：Summarise oppinion

Week 13 : Correction according to oppinion

Week 14 : Final Report Subsmission

Introduction

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In order to ensure that you can sing accurately and express your information clearly to help students understands your tutor ,basic equipment and rack settings are indispensable basic equipment certainly.

Utensil For Tutor-Zoom

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Just a camera from your PC/Laptop just make sure students able to watch your emotion (not the main)

Besides, according to normal connection of audio interface and multi-output device to your Zoom. Then , the lecture could be started!!

Setup detailed-Step 1 prepare equipment and route it

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Route your equipment based on diagram above.
My Equipment : Scarlet 2i2 audio interface , usb converter to Mac ,good quality of condensor microphone and a pair of headphone.

Pick your favourite equipment from the link below description
https://www.musicbliss.com.my

Step 2-Prepare a daw(Logic Pro X)

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Click your daw , choose a new project in your daw

Link for cheap Logic Pro X
https://shopee.com.my/search?keyword=logic%20pro%20x&trackingId=searchhint-1649998199-80f8becf-bc77-11ec-b19f-0a1399bd02d9

Step 3-create audio track in your daw

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Choose audio and create

Step 4-Download and virtual audio driver(Blackhole)

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virtual audio driver that allows applications to pass audio to other applications(such as zoom/others emulator) with zero additional latency.

Free Download link
https://existential.audio/blackhole/

Step 5-Create multi output devices

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Open your audio midi setup to create a multi-output device as above.

Step 6a -Connect your daw towards multi-output device

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Go to Logic Pro X>Preference>audio

Step 6b -Connect your daw towards multi-output device

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Click apply to setting as above

Step 7a-Sign up a zoom account

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Step 7b-Create a meeting with Video on

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Step 8-Set up your input and output sources

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Step 9a-Create your own rack settings for your tutor in low latency mode

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Noise reduction ,Compression ,Eq , De-Esser, Limiter as well as low latency safe reverb

Step 9b-Create your own rack settings for your tutor in low latency mode

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Choose low latency mode

Final step a-test your own loop back with headphones then you could go for your lecture

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Final step b-test your own loop back with headphones then you could go for your lecture

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Dimash Kudaibergen- All by myself(Analysis)

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Live Performance : Dimash is a very excellent singer who can deliver his own expression in different vocal position and almost equal volume smoothly ,almost perfect and stable in live Performance. The long reverb and echo accentuates his singing and expand the tension of live performance.Although a little bit muddy in live , but it remains shock feeling deliver to the audience through his thick vocal and equal apportion of his original timbre .

China TV Program's Post Production : The same song perform by Dimash and mixed by China TV program is more clear and more showing the detail of the mix voice and high note falsetto. Although The muddiness were take off but shock feeling deliver to the audience were not attenuate. Due to the reason , the mixing is more tends to show off dimash high notes and not to over-emphasis his chest voice by using dynamic eq to expand his falsetto provide the high timbre of shock feeling to the audience. Since dimash have a project thickness to words that need to be emphasized during live performance , his thickness were sounds equally with boost of high end frequency range and highly low end-compression in the low notes after the muddiness from low notes were take out .

American TV Program's Post Production : The mixing by American TV mixing engineer is more tend towards a lively and natural outcomes. There not many editing and shaping of Dimash vocal with eq and low-end compression.

It only using basic eq ,volume automation and limiting to show more raw but amazing voice from him.

Live Performance

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China TV Program's Post Production

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American TV Program's Post-production

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Jessie J-Domino(Analysis)

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Live Performance : Jessie J live performance is too fantastic ,it have a natural and wonderful dynamic project and almost perfect pitching .Although sometimes the volume of some words were little bit small and timbre is oversharp through the transmit of microphone due to the unused of low-end compression and dynamic eq on annoying frequency but the annoying frequency let me feels the excited emotion , subtle vocal projecting in her voice through the live performance.

China TV Program's Post Production : Almost like the mixing style of Dimash but emphasis more in her roar voice , the end of phrases as well as melisma and her high note to make her whole vocal performance sounds more penetrate to the audience .Besides , the low-end compression , nice limiting , volume automation and detailed eq shaping provide equal space dynamic range in different part of song .Besides , every chorus and verse have different eq process to make the whole performance sounds more vivid.

American TV Program's Post Production : The are attenuate of annoying frequency through dynamic eq and limiting .There different eq shaping and volume limiting from each part .Emphasis the dynamic in little part with volume automation and dynamic eq to retains more original dynamic projecting by Jessie .The overall mixing sound nice and equal in volume.

Live Performance

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China TV Program's Post Production

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American TV Program's Post-production

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Draft of Mock Class's Context

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Week/Stage 1-Vocal recording and draft demo

(2 days / week1 , 2 hours / session）

Day 1 : （1）Introduce the set up of the hardware equipment of now they current use with presentation slide
(2) Introduce DAWs tools, short cut keys (3) Introduce Basic Plugins and it’s function

Day 2 :(1)Introduce a basic preset for recording

(2) Recording under the guidance of vocal tutor besides the students

(3) Choosing Track and bounce demo

Week / Stage 2-Editing in Pitching and volume

Day 1 :(1)Introduce/Recap of Flexing tools in Pitching and automation

(2) Cut and trim the selected track

(3) Editing Pitch under guidance

Day 2 :(1)Editing Volume under guidance

(2)Correction and confirm of editing result

Week / Stage 3-Vocal Quality Shaping

Day 1 : (1) Introduce the eq frequency range characteristics of vocals

(2) Try and error and get version 1 of the mixings

Day 2 : (1)Recap the eq frequency range characteristics of vocals

(2) Try and error and get version 2 of the mixings

(3)Compare the different between version 1&2 ,then pick one

Week / Stage 4- Finalize and correction/Interview candidates

*Only one day for this week

(1) Do a very last checking on vocal pitching , shaping and overall volume between vocal and music.

(2) Quick and Short Interview for the students about what they learn and how can I improve

Week 3 Comments

cmy57 — 2022-04-22 09:22:04 UTC

As mentioned during our consultation just now, let's start work on the final report. We will start by building an overall structure of the final report. Be as detailed as possible; make sure you write down main sections that you want to include in the report. Under those main sections, you can write rough points about what you want to include under that section. That way, we see what the final report will cover. You can start working on this by next week, until we get a good overall structure!

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This book is Three Exemplary Voice Teachers: David Adams, Stephen King, & Patricia Misslin; Their Philosophies & Studio Techniques. University of Minnesota by Jenny Elizabeth Dufault.

Synopsis :
The books describe the process and result of observation from three different vocal teachers .Based on the observation result , it argues towards the 3 different ways of teaching between building students’ overall musicianships and fully work-on vocal techniques training.

Reflection and Analysis :

The investigation help contribute my ways of teaching on the curriculum through the study of the observation and having same good results from the three vocal pedagogues’ students .In my opinion, I think different teachers from different backgrounds and experience will directly affect towards the idea of teaching music to students.For instance , the both three teachers were came from different places which is Cincinnati and Houston the metropolitan area .then New York/Boston the City area. There is a famous music college in Boston called ‘Berkley College’ which is well-known as Top music college in USA .Hence , the teaching method will try to cover overall musicianship to students which had expected the students already sharpness their vocal skills before joining the class . In conclusion , different methods of vocal teaching is not the main issues that affects a student result while both of the teachers have same great concepts and recognitions to improve their students vocal skills and musicianship.

2022-04-28 16:35:30 UTC

This book is call Overnight Success: Achieve goals quickly, solve problems through emotional intelligence anti-stress strategies & resilience, make the right decisions in career & project management by Simone Janson.

Synopsis :
This book provide few biography of successful people from different field and adviceto success earlier than others. It argues that we can be successful through prototype what the successful people do.

Reflection :
The investigation help contribute my research on teaching method through the statement made from this book. The hypothesis display the idea of learning and prototype the way of the successful persons will lead you to successful more quickly . In contrast , the main keys of success are having list of superb research information , plan out of consideration and great strictly decisions. Thus , everyone should have independence thinking although taking reference from successful persons would increase our ideological frame to success. In a nutshell , I would suggest the people who might joining my online curriculum have more self-exploration to their vocals projecting despite there are a full tutorial from start to end.

Different Pedagogies on Different Range

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Peer Review of Student's project

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Rebecca LO Qi AI

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SHEVONE SEOW JIA XUAN & TAN CHISA

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Draft of final report

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Draft of final report

Introduction

-Summary of Creative Project (1-1 vocal recording and editing technique )

-Collaborators(Jacob vocal and art studio )

-Why we collaborate

Logistics

-How we collaborate

-How the class run( process & schedule of the classes)

-Why we run the class in this way

Equipments and materials

-Daw and plugins

-Microphone and audio Interface

-MacBook Pro 14-inch

Final Outcomes

-Students 1min works

-Students reflection

Conclusion

Week 4 Comments

cmy57 — 2022-04-30 02:16:35 UTC

This is a good start to the draft! Let's add other elements in. I've relabeled and shifted some parts to new sections. See if it makes sense for you.

In the coming weeks, start to fill up information in these sections (in point form first), and post them to Padlet. We will go over all the information you're filling up and make corrections and changes as we go along in the semester!

Introduction

Summary of project [do mention that you are running classes/sessions!]
Collaborator(s)

Project Background

Collaboration information (why you have chosen to collaborate)
Aims of the collaboration (what you aim to achieve; student work etc.)
Who the students are (what their music/vocal backgrounds are)

Class Plan

How classes are run (online/F2F; how often; duration of classes. Here, you can include why classes are run this way)
Class schedule
Class structure (topics covered in each session)

Class Preparation

Physical equipment used (include type(s) of microphones, interface etc. with model numbers - so we know exactly what is used)
DAW/plugins/other software
Class setup (explain and/or have pictures to show how all the equipment + DAW is set up before the class begins)

Running of Classes

Detailed class plan of each session
Every class plan/session should include: (1) Introduction - Main topic/what is covered in the class; (2) Student activities (what exactly is done within that class); (3) What is achieved at the end of the class
Suggestion: You can think about structuring this section in a table format, if it works better

Students' Output

Work produced by students
Students' reflection(s)

Personal Reflections

Your reflections on the overall project: What was done well, what needed improvement
Future plans: How you intend to develop these classes for the future

Conclusion

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Introduction

Summary of project [do mention that you are running classes/sessions!]

-Online (Zoom) 1-1 Vocal Technique ,Recording and Editing classes
-Chinese Language Teaching
- Highly Demand of this courses in Teenagers who like to DIY

Collaborator(s)

-Jacob Vocal Art Studio (Major in 1-1 Vocal Tutor)
-Vocal Tutor winner of ASIA EMI Karaoke Competition 2007
-Sent students to China Hunan TV Show 'Let's Sing Kids Season 2-5'

Project Background

Collaboration information (why you have chosen to collaborate)

-Major in vocal tutor
-Highly demand on audio post-production services during pandemic(some student try to explore their voice during recording)
-Step-stone and work/teaching experience for beginner mixing engineer

Aims of the collaboration (what you aim to achieve; student work etc.)

-Students will know the basic equipment for recording session
-Students able to use plugins to edit their vocal
-Students able to have a 2min audio outcomes

Who the students are (what their music/vocal backgrounds are)

-3rd Year and above's student of Jacob Vocal Art Studio

Class Plan

How classes are run (online/F2F; how often; duration of classes. Here, you can include why classes are run this way)

-Duration : A month , twice /week(Saturday and Sunday Night)
-Students are part-time staff and college students , only free on weekend

Class schedule

-Week 8 until week 12

Class structure (topics covered in each session)

-Week/Stage 1-Vocal recording and draft demo

(2 days / week1 , 2 hours / session）

Day 1 : （1）Introduce the set up of the hardware equipment of now they current use with presentation slide
(2) Introduce DAWs tools, short cut keys (3) Introduce Basic Plugins and it’s function

Day 2 :(1)Introduce a basic preset for recording

(2) Recording under the guidance of vocal tutor besides the students

(3) Choosing Track and bounce demo

Week / Stage 2-Editing in Pitching and volume

Day 1 :(1)Introduce/Recap of Flexing tools in Pitching and automation

(2) Cut and trim the selected track

(3) Editing Pitch under guidance

Day 2 :(1)Editing Volume under guidance

(2)Correction and confirm of editing result

Week / Stage 3-Vocal Quality Shaping

Day 1 : (1) Introduce the eq frequency range characteristics of vocals

(2) Try and error and get version 1 of the mixings

Day 2 : (1)Recap the eq frequency range characteristics of vocals

(2) Try and error and get version 2 of the mixings

(3)Compare the different between version 1&2 ,then pick one

Week / Stage 4- Finalize and correction/Interview candidates

*Only one day for this week

(1) Do a very last checking on vocal pitching , shaping and overall volume between vocal and music.

(2) Quick and Short Interview for the students about what they learn and how can I improve

Class Preparation

Physical equipment used (include type(s) of microphones, interface etc. with model numbers - so we know exactly what is used)

-Focusrite Microphone , headphones , Scarlett 2i2 audio Interface

DAW/plugins/other software

Daw : Logic Pro X (10.6 ver above)
Plugins : Most from waves , Slate digital and Logic Pro X Stock Plugins
Virtual Audio Driver : Blackhole
Other Software : Zoom , Microsoft Power Point

Class setup (explain and/or have pictures to show how all the equipment + DAW is set up before the class begins) in home and in Jacob vocal art studio's classroom

Running of Classes

Detailed class plan of each session
Every class plan/session should include: (1) Introduction - Main topic/what is covered in the class;
(2) Student activities (what exactly is done within that class);
(3) What is achieved at the end of the class
Suggestion: You can think about structuring this section in a table format, if it works better

Students' Output

Work produced by students
Students' reflection(s)

Personal Reflections

Your reflections on the overall project: What was done well, what needed improvement
Future plans: How you intend to develop these classes for the future

Conclusion

Table

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Updated of template

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Additional info

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Why the classes design like this ?

The class run in practical under guidance to ensure students gain more recording and editing knowledge under very limited time.

Classes design in 2 hours provide to vocal students that have recording experience before who first close touch with basic audio recording equipment such as mic , interface and daws to ensure they have more time to explore and feel the vibe of recording and editing.

The project based learning will help them more responsible and focus on the proper process to produce their own satisfied outcomes which will let them discover mistakes the usually caught by themselves and make it correct .

Time Booking(Currently status /might be changed)
Week 1 Day 1 21/5 6-8pm , 8-10pm
Day 2 22/5 6-8pm, 8-10pm
Week 2 Day 1 4/6 6-8pm,8-10pm
Day 2 5/6 6-8pm,8-10pm
Week 3 Day 1 18/6 6-8pm,8-10pm
Day 2 19/6 6-8pm,8-10pm
Week4 Last day 25/6 6-8pm , 8-10pm

Students list of this class

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Beverly Heng Wei lyn 20yo

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-live Singing competition experience (5year above )

-5 year above vocal Students of Mr.Jacob(1-1 tutor)

-One of the representer student of Jacob Vocal and art studio

-having few experience took part s vocalist in Vocal recording Session with me before and Professional recordist from Big Apple Production Studio

-have started experience in DIY vocal recording from 10 months ago

-have ideal of some basic music theory

-Currently a full-time assistant of professional streamer on Facebook , only free on weekend

Zoom Videos Session

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Beverly Heng Wei Lyn Day 1 21/5 (8-10pm)

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Observation :
The aim of the first class is to know the level of how much student's understanding on the audio recording and editing.
Beverly is having a very quick progress in learning and able to catch up the basic knowledge in short period as well .Besides , seems she is having some talent on this class ,thus , I will provide few more ways of using plugins to enhance her works on the next classes, which mean let her explore more and ask her opinion more deep into the aesthetic perspective in her editing process.

Hui Sin Day 1 22/5(10-12am)

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Observation :
The aim of the first class is to know the level of how much student's understanding on the audio recording and editing.
HuiSin is having a normal progress in learning and able to catch up the basic knowledge as well .Different to Beverly , seems she is having more interesting on this class ,thus , I will provide more guidance to help her achieve the standadize outcomes for every session she learn and I will try to motivate her more to explore her own aesthetic view by showing more example of excerpts which categorised as top rank excerpts in the chart of popular music industries.

Hui Sin 18 yo

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-2 year students of Mr.Jacob (1-1 tutor)

-having few experience took part as vocalist on my vocal recording session

-Currently a graduated secondary school's student

-plan to study music college abroad in China

-kick started /step-stone before college

Class PPt

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Week 7 Comments

cmy57 — 2022-05-20 08:09:19 UTC

The classes are coming together! As you work on your report and finalise your sessions with the two vocalists, make sure you really go over basics with them as it looks like they don't have much experience with vocal/audio equipment. Remember to record your sessions so that you can include it as part of your report. All the best for your sessions after the break!

Week 8 Comments

cmy57 — 2022-06-06 15:01:22 UTC

Glad to see that you have started your sessions!

As you carry on with the classes in the coming weeks, do start writing your personal observations in detail. This can be done in point form. Think about categorising your observation into more focused parts, such as:

* Focus of the session / what you intended to cover in the session
* Student's knowledge/background pertaining to the focus of the session
* What you did within the session
* Mini self evaluation: Do you think the session was successful? What would you do to improve/develop the session next week?

The more detailed you can be the better, as it will help you when you start putting your final report together.

Notice*

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Week 1 Day 1 21/5 6-8pm , 8-10pm

Day 2 22/5 6-8pm, 8-10pm ( Delay replace on 18/6)

Week 2 Day 1 4/6 6-8pm,8-10pm ( Delay replace on 19/6)

Day 2 5/6 6-8pm,8-10pm (Delay replace on 25/6)

Week 3 Day 1 18/6 6-8pm,8-10pm (Delay replace on 26/6)

Day 2 19/6 6-8pm,8-10pm (Delay replace on 2/7)

Week4 Last day 25/6 6-8pm , 8-10pm (Delay replace on 3/7)

reasons : students have covid.They need quarantine , not feeling well and not convenience

Peer Review

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Yap Li Ching's work

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Alethea works

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Draft of final report

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Academic Language Learning Services

cmy57 — 2022-06-20 06:45:17 UTC

Here's the link to the university's Academic Language Learning Service. There is a sign up system. If unsure, do contact the library.

ALLS appointment link

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Zoom Videos Session

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Beverly Heng Wei Lyn Day 2 18/6 (6-8pm)

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Focus of the session / what you intended to cover in the session

(1)Recap basic preset for recording and volume meter (10min)
(2) Recording under the guidance of vocal tutor besides the students (1h30min)
(3) Choosing Track and bounce demo(20min)

* Student's knowledge/background pertaining to the focus of the session
She have accumulate 5 month of self-experience on Logic Pro X and 1 class of tutorial
* What you did within the session
I have did showing the part she need to re-record and point out some mistakes such as not enough chest voice to stable her own voice and project from falsetto to modal voice register not fluent enough. Besides, I have analysed the mistakes that can't be tuned correctly after bouncing the tracks.
* Mini self evaluation: Do you think the session was successful? What would you do to improve/develop the session next week?
Success . Students able to utilised recording skills with DAW's and studio microphone to record the outcomes that she's expected .Student have realised importance of plug-ins as preset of vocal chains.

Hui Sin Day 2 18/6(8-10pm)

19076405 — 2022-06-23 18:14:45 UTC

Focus of the session / what you intended to cover in the session

(1)Recap basic preset for recording and volume meter (10min)
(2) Recording under the guidance of vocal tutor besides the students (1h30min)
(3) Choosing Track and bounce demo(20min)

* Student's knowledge/background pertaining to the focus of the session
Only 1 class of tutorial experience
* What you did within the session
First of all ,she have some issues on controlling the DAWS due to not using DAWS frequently.
I have did showing the part she need to re-record and point out some mistakes such as not enough chest voice to stable her own voice and project from falsetto to modal voice register not fluent enough. Besides, I have analysed the mistakes that can't be tuned correctly after bouncing the tracks.Moreover, I have suggested her to record half of the song because her voice sounds too fatigues and get worse after re-record
* Mini self evaluation: Do you think the session was successful? What would you do to improve/develop the session next week?
Not Success . Students unable to utilised recording skills with DAW's and studio microphone to record the outcomes that she's expected .Student have realised importance of plug-ins as preset of vocal chains. Besides, the time of classes were too late to her and she can't perform her best.Hence, I will changed her time schedule with Beverly who are more able to sing late without fatigue.

Beverly Heng Wei Lyn Day 3 19/6 (8-10pm)

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Focus of the session / what you intended to cover in the session

(1)Introduce/Recap of  Flexing tools in Pitching and automation (15min)
(2) Cut and trim the selected track (30min)
(3) Editing Pitch under guidance(1h 15min)

* Student's knowledge/background pertaining to the focus of the session
5 month of self-experience on Logic Pro X and 2 class of tutorial experience

* What you did within the session
(1)Explain the functions of every flex pitch's tool such as vibrato,fine pitch ,pitch drift ,gain and formant shift.
(2)Explain my terminology on using it
(a)Not every pitch should be corrected with fine pitch as long as it sounds natures
(b)Trim the part which have note need to fix ,editing ptich without trimming should be avoided, otherwise it will cause digital's cracking noise in your tracks.
(c)Formant shift is one of the tools that able to enhance the vocals expression in emotions.
* Mini self evaluation: Do you think the session was successful? What would you do to improve?
Success. Student is able to understands the process of substitute the terminology into her songs.

Hui Sin Day 3 19/6(6-8pm)

19076405 — 2022-06-23 18:24:43 UTC

Focus of the session / what you intended to cover in the session

(1)Introduce/Recap of  Flexing tools in Pitching and automation (15min)
(2) Cut and trim the selected track (30min)
(3) Editing Pitch under guidance(1h 15min)

* Student's knowledge/background pertaining to the focus of the session
2 class of tutorial experience

Zoom video sessions

19076405 — 2022-06-30 16:01:14 UTC

Beverly Heng Wei Lyn day 4 25/6 (6-8pm)

19076405 — 2022-06-30 16:03:56 UTC

* Focus of the session / what you intended to cover in the session

(1)Editing Volume under guidance (1h30）
(2)Correction and confirm of editing result （30min)

* Student's knowledge/background pertaining to the focus of the session
5months of DIY self-recordings with Logic Pro X and 3 lessons's experience.

* What you did within the session
Besides of following the class detailed that had planed, I have add on a listening and analysing on reference track with Lufs meter and Logic Pro X's tracks volume meter for students to have a target volume meter.Besides, compressor ,gain and flex pitch's gain and busses volume automation were used by students under guideline during this project.

* Mini self evaluation: Do you think the session was successful? What would you do to improve/develop the session next week?
Yes.Students available receive my concept and converted it into their own project due to the clearly instruction,explanations and guidance during their editing process.

HuiSin day 4 25/6 (8-10pm)

19076405 — 2022-06-30 16:04:35 UTC

* Focus of the session / what you intended to cover in the session

(1)Editing Volume under guidance (1h30）
(2)Correction and confirm of editing result （30min)

* Student's knowledge/background pertaining to the focus of the session
3 lessons's experience.

beverly heng wei lyn 26/6 (6-8pm)

19076405 — 2022-06-30 16:14:43 UTC

* Focus of the session / what you intended to cover in the session

(1) Introduce and recap the eq frequency range characteristics of vocals (25min)
(2) Try and error and get version 1 of the mixings (1h35min)

* Student's knowledge/background pertaining to the focus of the session
5months of DIY recordings with Logic Pro X and 4 classes of experience

* What you did within the session
Besides of completing the task I set before, I have added on the tutors of concept in equalising process would affect the volume balancing of the whole song.Hence , after achieving the target timbre, there are following the process of volume balancing again to ensure some note in vocals not too overpowering or being buried . During the editing process , latch tools were most used as tools to make eq works more variable and flexible.

HuiSin day 5 26/6 (8-10pm)

19076405 — 2022-06-30 16:16:05 UTC

Focus of the session / what you intended to cover in the session

(1) Introduce and recap the eq frequency range characteristics of vocals (25min)
(2) Try and error and get version 1 of the mixings (1h35min)

* Student's knowledge/background pertaining to the focus of the session
4 classes of experience

Zoom Video Session

19076405 — 2022-07-07 18:18:11 UTC

Beverly Heng Wei Lyn day 6 2/7(6-8pm)

19076405 — 2022-07-07 18:21:17 UTC

Focus of the session / what you intended to cover in the session

(1)Recap  the eq frequency range characteristics of vocals(10min)
(2) Try and error and get version 2 of the mixings(1h)
(3)Compare the different between version 1&2 ,then pick one (50min)

* Student's knowledge/background pertaining to the focus of the session
5month of DIY recording and 5 day of classes experience

* What you did within the session
Besides of following the original plan , I have introduce her tube eq which having trait of fixed eq range selection and volume selection as well as analog vibe.Additionally, I also introduce her the terminology of "first impression" in audio mixing which mean the first editing or recording is always have the most natural vibe .It also meant the more natural your feeling towards a song before editing the more possibility you gain success to have a great mix outcomes.
Besides, I also introduce the send buses volume for delay and reverb.

* Mini self evaluation: Do you think the session was successful? What would you do to improve/develop the session next week?
Yes. I think she still keeping her own passion to learn it and having great attention and found out interestingly during my demonstration .

HuiSin day 6 2/7 (8-10pm)

19076405 — 2022-07-07 18:21:44 UTC

Focus of the session / what you intended to cover in the session

(1)Recap  the eq frequency range characteristics of vocals(10min)
(2) Try and error and get version 2 of the mixings(1h)
(3)Compare the different between version 1&2 ,then pick one (50min)

* Student's knowledge/background pertaining to the focus of the session
5 day of classes experience

Beverly Heng Wei Lyn day 7 2/7(6-8pm)

19076405 — 2022-07-07 18:22:22 UTC

Focus of the session / what you intended to cover in the session

(1) Do a very last checking on vocal pitching , shaping and overall volume between vocal and music.
(2) Quick and Short Interview for the students about what they learn and how can I improve

* Student's knowledge/background pertaining to the focus of the session
5 month of DIY recording and 6 day of classes experience

* What you did within the session
Besides of following the original plan , I have recap the idea of the terminology of "first impression" in audio mixing which mean the first editing or recording is always have the most natural vibe .It also meant the more natural your feeling towards a song before editing the more possibility you gain success to have a great mix outcomes.
For instance, I have found out some syllables are too boxy which is the mistake she can't point out yesterday.Hence , I have guide her to clear some boxy sounds in vocal through tube eq that i introduce to her during her yesterday's class

HuiSin day 7 3/7(8-10pm)

19076405 — 2022-07-07 18:23:02 UTC

Focus of the session / what you intended to cover in the session

(1) Do a very last checking on vocal pitching , shaping and overall volume between vocal and music.
(2) Quick and Short Interview for the students about what they learn and how can I improve

* Student's knowledge/background pertaining to the focus of the session
6 day of classes experience

Additional Info(Students evaluation to classes)

19076405 — 2022-07-07 19:00:25 UTC

Beverly ：
Pro
(1) The demonstration is customized for a persons and very detailed
(2) Practical works make herself more proficient on her own editing process.
(3)Guidance is easy to understands compared to the internets tutorial video

Con
(1) Cant having self practicing besides of class duration.

Suggestion
(1)Adding a weekly assignment for students

HuiSin :
Pro
(1) The demonstration is customized for a persons and very detailed
(2) Practical works make herself more proficient on her own editing process.
(3)Guidance is easy to understands compared to the internets tutorial video and others online mixing classes by professional audio mixing engineer

Con
-

Suggestion
(1)Suggested it become a face to face classes during post-pandemic

Week 13 Comments

cmy57 — 2022-07-10 03:29:33 UTC

Good work completing all sessions! Now it's time to draw up the report. Do follow the outline that we drafted in the first half of the semester. If there are additional sections you want to add to the report, please do that!

Final Report

19076405 — 2022-07-15 10:54:59 UTC

Students Output

19076405 — 2022-07-15 10:55:13 UTC