Radio Programme presentation

Introduction Welcome to yet another post. In this post, I will discuss my radio programme presentation I am analysing a radio programme entitled Bass, Beats and Banter with Skream and Benga. This radio programme is broadcast on Radio1 at 11 PM till 1 Am on friday. There will be more about this very soon including a brief history of the DJs and the target audence, ETC.

Session from 21st October 2013

Introduction

Welcome to yet another chapel session post! In this post I will discuss the ups and downs of last night's session.< h2> Session overview In last night's session, We got set up and filmed our own performance so we could get the experience of setting up the equipment needed for a chapel session. I helped out with the RTU students by playing keyboards with our very disorganised band.

positive aspects

The experience overall was a learning curve for me as I haven't had extensive experience with setting up the microphones and coiling the cables.

negative aspects

The whole event was hugely disorganised in terms of us putting some material together, and there was one point where the drummer and guitarists were disagreeing about whether they were in time or not.

Summery of the session

Overall, the session was disorganised, but most of the experiences were relevant and useful for learning the production rolls and different technical aspects of a chapel session.

Chapel session for october 14th

14th October 2013 session

In yesterday's chapel session, we watched a band being recorded, and helped with the tidying up of the equipment. The band was a Welsh rock band called the Selurians, and they performed 2 songs. The songs were Dosey Rosey and knocking.

technical processes and takes

The first song the band recorded was Dosey Rosey, and the song took 9 takes overall to get right as the band was quite disorganised at first. This was quite a learning curve for me as I was used to an organised environment. Also, the band did leave at somewhat inconvenient times, but we dealt with the technical and organisational problems proffessionally, but light-heartedly.

Summary

All in all, I think that the band put on a great performence which did have its moments, but it made the whole experience a learning curve and an experence never to forget!

Live at the Chapel with Richard Whatson

On Monday 23rd September, we observed the setting up of a "Live at the Chapel" session, which featured a pianist/singer as the main act of the night. Some of the RTU students helped set up the microphones for the piano and the vocals. The setup consisted of 2 CK90 condenser microphones for the piano, and a CK91 condenser for the vocals. The music tech team and RTU students did all of the equipment setup, with Paul Cobbold as the chief audio engineer. Richard performed the songs I know precisely, I'll do it tomorrow and Straight to video. All the songs were his own material, and were quite entertaining to listen to. There were a few problems initially, but they were sorted out in a short time. The problems were mainly because of camera 3 not working, and one song took 8 takes before the right recording was used. The night lasted about 3 and a half hours and it went rather smoothly.

Introductory session

Today, we learnt about how the live chapel events run on Monday evenings, and we talked about how we will have to eventually learn to set up the equipment and produce an entire performence live from the chapel. We listened to some previous recordings that were recorded about a year ago. In my oppinion, the recordings were well produced and the video and audio quallity was fantastic. We listened to acoustic folk, psychedelic rock and traditional blues.