Blog Entry 3 - Revolver Entry

The Beetles have always been a great band. The Beetles was known as an R&B band in the late 60s. The Beetles were influenced by drug intake as their creative guide. They started experimenting with LCD in 1965. The Beetles were great at what they do in the sense of artist, a listener and a creator. They used the recording studio as an instrument by using magnetic plates to slow down the tape and make new sounds. Also they used a Guitar Cabinet as a microphone. A speaker and a microphone are essentially the same thing. They used this technique on the bass witch gave it a way warmer sound. The beetles were one of the first to use compression on the drums witch made the drums more alive and made them stand out in the mix. Also they invented double tracking witch is doubling of voices to make one denser voice. This works because the voices are not exactly the same but are a few milliseconds apart from each other creating that double sound that we are referring to. The Beetles gave me a great impression as a listener with their one of a kind mixing strategies like panning all the vocals to one speaker and all the instrumentation dispersed among the other speakers. This kind of gave the mix a 3 dimensional environment. As an industry professional, I really like the techniques they used to create the sound that they wanted and how they used deep meaningful lyrics. I really like how they placed reversed vocals on a track to make this unique affect. This shows the creativity of the group but also has gave me a great impression that they really know what they were doing and that they knew exactly on how they wanted to sound.

Blog Entry 1 -Welcome Entry

Hi my name is Christian Andrade, I enjoy composing music and recording my friends when they make music. I initially got interested in music when I was about 8 years old playing with my toy piano. My background of music is Hip-Hop but i like to listen to all kinds of music.

Blog Entry 2 -The Beach Boys Pet Sounds Entry

The Beach Boys were definitely a great sensation during the 1950s and 1960s as they progressed with their music. They where a surf style band that did rock and were know to be a California sunshine band. Their image was a surfer like image. Before the Pet sounds album the Beach Boys were viewed as the California sound. Brian Wilson was the leader and songwriter of the Beach Boys. He was a great Artist to be able to push the band up to the top. Brian was influenced by psychedelic drugs and crated the album Pet Sounds. Two great characteristics that Pet Sound brought was overlapping instruments witch were used to make new sounds by adding two separate instruments and combining them in order to make one single sound. Also they brought metaphorical lyrics with are still used in today’s music. As A listener Pet Sounds has a distinct but classic feel to it. The way they used the instrumentation shows the way a creative artist works and how you can never get to creative when it comes to music. My first impression was that the record felt a little corny but that’s because it’s not in my time. As far as the instrumentation and the way it was recorded I think that this is one of the best compared to the Beetles Revolver Album. As an industry professional I view this project as a great creative piece of work not only in the instrumentation but also on the vocals or lyrics. The harmonies that were provided were phenomenal and different throughout the entire album.