Studio Tour

Well this post goes back a long way. It's been sitting in my draft file for four years - from when my son, Alex was about to graduate from Metalworks - the production company which has kept him employed ever since.

One evening in December of 2010, Alex helped a friend who needed to complete a project for his sound mixing course at Metalworks.

He needed to record a song and do the post production work on the piece.

Alex doing a sound test.

Alex was to play guitar for young songwriter and vocalist Danielle. She's a very talented young performer. The song was her own composition, Say Goodbye.

Some of the equipment in the mixing room. Alex tells me these are called digital processing units.

An overall view of the mixing board..

.. which can also be seen here.

Alex hadn't laid eyes on the music before that night, and they were just going through it for the first time.

Here's a video of their very first rough go-round. Alex's guitar was the only sound actually being picked up and recorded. Danielle's voice and the metronome you can hear were just to keep him on track, and the vocals were to be added once all of the tracks had been successfully recorded. Ultimately, Alex played rhythm and bass.

I'm told it got much better with a bit of practice and eventually the other tracks were recorded. He never did get a copy of the finished piece.

I've searched online for it every now and then to see if I can complete this post with the more polished recording but never found it. I did recently find a video of Danielle singing her composition in front of an audience. She accompanied her own self on guitar. She's a talented girl.

That's it for your mini-tour of a Metalworks mixing room.