During my final tutorial, I was given some last-minute tips on how to finish off some of my mixes. I took said advice and dampened some of the reverb used on the instruments of track 1. I also tried to further level the vocals in track 2. However, adding more compression seemed to distorted some of the ‘S’ pronunciations. To quickly get around this, I upped the sensitivity on a de-esser plugin.

In today’s tutorial, I presented one of my songs that was near to being completed. Said song had some vocal parts recorded and partly mixed. My tutor said that I should adjust the reverb by turning down the high-ends. Other than that, I was making good pruductive progress.

Blog-wise, I need to write about more of my benchmarking to show justification behind some of my creative choices. We also discussed about release plans for my EP. I need to research when a good day to release it could be. Though it might not be released before the deadline, the production will certainly be completed by then.

During this tutorial, I got some feedback on the work I’ve recently carried out on Track 1. I was given some good ideas on how to improve it. I need to add some more variation to the drums as the loops get a tad repetitive at parts. I should also do something about the bass to either make it sound more like a synth or less like a synth as it is stuck in a confusing limbo at the moment. Some note bends and automation in dynamics might fix it up.

My tutor is happy with my blog development, with the added categories and organisation of references, but I still need to write more about production. I’ve also been given a few tips on how to better some posts I have at the moment. For example, it might be good to have some ‘before and after’ sounds to better show what progress is being made. I could also find a way to embed music and sounds onto the blog itself.

During my 7th tutorial, I was told I need to catch up on my written work as my music was developing faster than the blog. I was also given a few tips on how to better my blog. Such tips include adding a bibliography on a different page, referencing my research sources after each post and adding a Spotify reference playlist.