Horror Music (Day 13)

14th April 2021

Today is a special day.

I have clocked over 80hrs at 4EB Radio Station, which is awesome, because the minimum requirements for the internship module is 80 hrs and I have 84 hrs so far (Yeah). I'm still contracted to attend the recording studio whenever the senior audio engineer requires my assistant as a trainee at any time. The contract is scheduled to end at the end of this month (April).

Horror Album

Today I transferred another horror theme ambience / atmos record titled – ‘Scream & Scream Again’ to the digital brain of the station. The album was recorded in 1984 and has great presence for using in a film let alone any audio projects where you need an orchestral horror theme sound effect or atmos.

When I was recording the album, I noticed the record had some big scratch sounds in a couple of tracks. Big scratches can be hard to clean up, but apart from that it wasn't too bad.

Try Something New

I usually record one side onto the Audacity DAW, then edit the track, split the track into its track record sections and then transfer the track sections into the computer. Once I've done side A, I will create a whole new session for side B and repeat the process. This time I decided to record both sides of the album into separate tracks onto the one session. As demonstrated below (Blue transients signifies the track is active and grey means the track is muted and not active to edit.)

Now I can edit side A of the record which is track 1(the top track), then mute track 1 and unmute track 2 (the bottom track) for editing and transfer. This procedure of recording the album's A & B sides onto 2 separate tracks on the one session helped create a quicker workflow.

Back of Album info

On each track, I entered data and all the main information to make it easier for the DJ programmers as I have done before. The track theme names are great and seem to build a picture in your mind how they will sound when you hear them.