Reflection on Progress

What I've learned after recording all those songs is that I need to be careful when playing the guitar, I need to use good equipment, and understand how to use them as well.

What I meant when I said being careful playing the guitar is not to pick the strings too hard, or not picking the guitar steadily like playing too hard and then playing too soft. When I picked too hard, the wave in audacity when recording will go out of range and create an unpleasant buzzing sound. That made me recording songs over and over until I get the good one without much buzzes.

When I said using good equipment, I meant that I must find good cables and the jack converter. I bought the bad jack converter, it creates buzzing sounds when recording. The microphones must also be the good ones which doesn't record too much background noises, which I had some at home. I must also understand how to connect the cables from the microphone receiver to my laptop, or using the receiver in order to record. Luckily using them are easy.

This is the timeline of this month and what to do for the next month:

So far, from this month, I have worked according to the timeline I made. I have now finished recording and since early of this month I have finished composing my songs. Now I still need to compile the evidence videos and edit them on this last week of the month as written in my timeline.

During recording, I noticed that if I used different guitar playing techniques for recording the relaxing songs, the songs wouldn't be always relaxing. Because of that, I decided to not follow the design specification of using different techniques, so that the songs would be flowing well, not too complicated, and always maintain the slow and soft guitar sound.

What should I do next is to start editing the evidence videos and then burn the songs into an audio CD so they would be ready to be tested as a final product. I already bought a CD so what I should prepare next is knowing how to edit the videos by using the fast-forward effect, which I stil didn't understand how.

Progress

Today, I have finished recording the seventh song, which I decided it should be the replacement for the fifth recorded song, because that fifth song has the keys not combining well. The new song used better keys and it's a little different from the other songs, because this seventh song has more melodies instead of just playing the chords.

This is the seventh song that I wrote.

This is a photo of me recording the seventh song with the guitar and the laptop.






What I need to do now is only to burn the songs into a CD, and convert the CD into an Audio CD. I can burn those songs with iTunes, or Windows Media Player. After that, I will do some interview with the experts to find out whether my prouct is successful or not.

Song Writing and Recording Progress

These are some photos of the progress that I had made

These are the songs that I had written. These songs have no lyrics but on these papers I wrote all the keys/chords that I will play on each songs with my guitar.

These are the photos of the laptop screen when I was recording.

This is a photo of me playing the guitar and recording the sound to my laptop






So far I have already recorded 6 different songs. I am planning to re-do one song, because after I listened to the 6 songs I have recorded, I found out that 1 song had a mistake and wasn't good enough. I'm also planning to re-write that song.

Equipment for Recording

So far I have prepared all the equipment I needed for recording. These are some photos of the equipment:

This is the audio jack converter that converts the audio jack from the bigger size (from the amplifier) to the smaller size that can fit into my laptop's mic input. The converter with the long cable was the best I can use because with that, the audio recorded has no buzzing sounds.

This is the receiver for the Wireless microphone. The cable connects fro the receiver and transfers the audio to be recorded in the laptop.

This is the wireless microphone. Since I already had microphone and audio system from my karaoke equipment, I decided to use microphone instead of directly plugging the jack from the amplifier to the laptop because microphone has better audio quality.

This is the microphone receiver connceted to the laptop to be ready for recording

This is the mic's position which is right in front of the guitar amplifier to capture only the guitar sounds.







After preparing these equipment, I can already start recording.