Icon Studio SAE Rotterdam

The Audio Engineer course at SAE is almost finished. Time to hand in the final project. My first attempt was too ambitious, but fortunately I could learn from my mistakes and was allowed to work at a project that earlier visitors probably recognize.

Resultaten Final Project

In the icon studio at SAE rotterdam the song 4 kleine woordjes by Mensergerjeniet was mixed one more time (this time by using Protools in stead of Logic) and mastered using iZotope Ozone.

You can read the results on the right and hear the mastered version below.

4kw-mastered

Mensergerjeniet in concert

Stop the press! Grab a rubber, tipex, or just old-skool strike it out, but we definitely need to correct history. It was not 4 kleine woordjes that Mensergerjeniet and I wanted to record in the first place in March 2009, but de maat is vol. 4 kleine woordjes was one of the two songs that were recorded in no-time. Nice.

So, de maat is vol it is. For everyone that wondered since July 11th (the date of the previous post) where the other two songs were: here it is. Mensergerjeniet song number two. This time with keys.

Click the mp3 box below to listen. Just below that you can leave your comments!

de maat is vol-9-september-

We come in contact October 2008. The band already recorded two songs in a studio before but it did not lead to much – the result was never made available to the public. Despite that, they would like to give another studiosession a try.

Mensergerjen!et

Finally we are in a studio on an early morning in March 2009 to record drums and bass of their song 4 kleine woordjes. After the setup, tuning and adjusting drums and microphones (thanks Marco de Jongh for your help!), which takes a lot of time, we have a successful recording after a few takes. While you might come off very well with a little error in a live situation, the studio is very honest and relentless.

Sure enough, we have 45 minutes left before the studio closes, and suddenly the band can’t be stopped. Is it Dirk, the solo guitarplayer, who comes by to socialize and plays along with his trousers up to the ankles? Two more songs are being recorded in no time. At the end of day one, we have the foundation of three instead of one song!

But there’s still a lot of work to be done: two guitarplayers, keyboard, saxophone, trumpet, trombone and three vocalists: every single one of them comes to the studio to record their piece. Despite my fiery wish there’s is no more time to record percussion.

I started mixing the first of the three songs this month. 4 kleine woordjes (4 little words – you might be surprised once you know which) comes out very well. It’s hard not to move your feet while listening!

Check their website if you care for a swinging and cheerful concert with catching ska! We might meet each other. Don’t be surprised about Dirk’s trousers

Click on the mp3 box below to listen to 4 kleine woordjes.

Mensergerjeniet – 4 kleine woordjes

Because of that, I won’t end 2008, but will start 2009 with a soul/funk project. What you get if you combine some members of the band Compaz with the drummer of Simply Red sounds very nice. “Wake up!” has been recorded a while ago in SAE’s studio’s, but a new version has been created using Apple’s Logic. Percussion, reverse drumsounds and tempo based effects.

“Remember your loved ones, ’cause they make your world”. It’s a nice suggestion for this new year. And once again, thanks to the kind permission of Andreas Oszkiel I can present to you not just 30 seconds, but the whole 5 plus minutes! Credits go to all the artists and engineers. This version was mixed for educational purposes during my audio engineering diploma course.

So what is going on in early 2009? Chasing Tales (anyone who saw Teun’s guitar?) almost finished the recording of their song Melody. Mensergerjeniet will record 4 kleine woordjes as a demo, and Before Dawn wants to record a demo, but suddenly has a vacancy for a drummer.

One final word: it has come to my attention that the subscribe box on the right of this page was missing. As you can see, it has been restored So if you wish, now you can again (if you haven’t already done so) leave your email address so you get notified when a now song has been published on this site.

I wish you all a happy and musical 2009! Click the mp3 box below to listen to Wake up!. Enjoy!

Wake up!