Make Your Own Band CD
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For those who enjoy making music for fun, this experience will give you a whole new spin on your hobby by giving you a taster of what it's like to record and produce your own CD! |
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Make Your Own CD
Kids’ Kite Surfing Experience Number of People
This experience is valid for one studio session and can be booked for an individual or for groups of up to eight.
Experience Location
Central / Chai Wan. Subject to availability.
Availability and Duration
This experience may be booked on all days except public holidays and is subject to availability. You will get two hours of recording time at the studio and it will take a further 5-7 days to edit and produce your CD.
Language
English, Cantonese, Mandarin
Weather
This experience takes place indoors and is generally not affected by the weather.
What to wear
Anything you feel comfortable singing in!
Suitability information
There is no minimum age for this experience but adult supervision is required to children under the age of 12.
Extra information
Get the most out of your experience by being fully prepared!
- Know what instruments you want to use and let the studio know two weeks in advance, so they can set up all the equipment for you.
- Choose a picture or a photograph for your CD cover and decide what you want to name your CD.
- Bring the lyrics for your chosen song just in case you forget the words!
Note: Band recordings made during this Experience will be a live recording, meaning all instruments are to be played at the same time. Music produced in this experience must not be used for commercial purposes. Your recorded tracks will be professionally edited but auto-tuning is not included.
You may reschedule your experience where notice has been given at least 72 hours prior to the confirmed Experience date. Otherwise, the value of the Experience Voucher will be forfeited.
The five of us (two guitarists doubling as vocalists as well, drummer, bassist and keyboardish) rocked up to a very nicely kitted out studio in Central on a Saturday afternoon, not really knowing what to expect but hoping that we could band together to record something that was at least respectable.
The studio space was brilliant. Nice set-up with quality equipment (while our guitarists had their own g-tars, the studio provided a drum kit, bass and keyboards). Jon, our producer extraordinaire for the day, was friendly and injected the entire experience with a good vibe. He asked us for the playlist (luckily, he knew all the songs well) and we got straight into it.
The recording session itself went smoothly. We started with recording the backing track, with the vocals recorded separately. One thing I did find abit odd was that the guitars (lead, rhythm and bass) were plugged directly into the mixer and were in a separate area to the drums and keyboard. This caused two issues: 1) Without eye-contact and not all of us being present in the same space, timing and rhythm was alot more difficult, 2) The guitarists were not able to hear the true effects of their guitars (no distortion etc.) as the guitars went through the mixer clean. We managed okay but I put it down to us not being studio-drilled (none of us had previously recorded in such a professional studio environment).
The vocal recording went without a hitch and we ended up getting our complete CDs within a fortnight of the session.
Big shout-out to Jon, who was generous with his time and worked his magic to make us sound better than the sum of our parts. A fantastic experience.
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