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Hopefully by now we have gotten ourselves acquainted with this amazing electronic duo, if not be sure to give them a listen on their SoundCloud or YouTube page. Brothers Guy (born 25th May 1991) and Howard (born 11th May 1994) Lawrence grew up in Reigate, Surrey and released their album Settle on the 3rd June 2013 through PMR. They are currently being played and replayed on my Sony Xperia Miro, either that or some Aluna George.

I’m a kid again!

I’m so glad to hear their music played in Furies, a club in Ayr, and when I say this I mean Disclosure ft. Aluna George with their song White Noise. It makes me feel special as I have been listening to them since album release. White Noise is a song that I’m surprised no one thought up until now, this makes it no less creative as it is amazing with it’s drum beat that for some reason harmonizes with my inner beat that we also seem to have and move to now and then.

Here listen:

Disclosure’s vocals can be anything from repetition to something quite fancy. In any case, the variety is enough for any music lover that likes to hear a beat pulsing at them and lyrics that they can just pick up on the go. It will likely be similar to some of those repetitive eating habits in your daily life. Would even go as far to say that it calms me!

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Lately I have been getting into recording which seems quite simple, but it looks like you are about to head into a minefield where one wrong step could mean losing your legs and having to wait for the medic to come help you. There is so much you can do on a DAW software, namely ProTools. It’s not just as simple as clicking record, the program needs to know which mics are being used for recording and there can be any number of mics.

So what am I doing?

I will record a singer-songwriter, two bands and sounds for a game in future. Learning to cater for all three is important for my work later on. There are some YouTube channels that will help me, WinkSound (overloaded with videos), Brian Boyle, and Signature Sound (talks about mic setup as well).

Now I can only really get into what I plan on doing later today for recording, and that is recording Leighbo (an acoustic performance). So what options do I have? Well I could go for a variety of different recording techniques, there is no right or wrong answer for this. For her I plan on using an XY recording technique for the acoustic guitar, which will be timed to a metronome separately from the vocals. I will likely record the vocals with the AKG.

The band Ratios I will be recording next week. They have their own engineer coming in whom I will be working with, and hopefully get some pointers.

I have another band I am recording, but they have yet given me a name or any material, so they are really early in the songwriting stages.

The game sounds… all I can say is that I have been informed that it is a cross campus uni project and that it will happen in the second term of the University Of The West Of Scotland. They are working on it this term however, just too soon for sounds!

Hope for the future!

Yer, hopefully I get more of a chance to record in future and gain more experience from it!

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