Santa Cruz, CA (March 15, 2023)—Learning from the professionals in any occupation is useful, however within the recording business, it’s a time-honored custom that has made recording schooling occasions like famend producer and engineer Alan Parsons’ ASSR Recording Master Classes so widespread. The most up-to-date version, held in Santa Barbara, CA in early March on the engineer’s ParSonics Studio, noticed the engineer behind numerous traditional rock albums not solely share his information but in addition report the profitable entry of a global track contest—and blend it in Dolby Atmos.
A faculty mission by 19-year-old Full Sail Music Production pupil Steffie Antony Tjandra received the competition and have become the main target of the weekend Master Class. “I usually simply write music,” stated Steffie afterward. “This is the primary time I’ve written the melody and the lyrics as properly.”
Inspired by the rom-com What If, her moody R&B ballad “I Don’t Want To Fall” was produced for the occasion. Parsons known as it “an important track” and went on to reward TJandra’s studio etiquette after she flew to the grasp class from Orlando, courtesy of Full Sail.
“She was at all times decisive about what labored and what didn’t,” stated Parsons, “and was very delicate and complimentary to the vocal carried out by the wonderful Brandi Rose. The end result wouldn’t have been the identical with out her presence on the Master Class.”
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ASSR’s long-established courses present attendees with perception into how records are made, with a Neve 5088 console and a dwell monitoring session aiding Parsons’ manufacturing, with Pro Tools programming expertise tackled by his studio sidekick, Noah Bruskin. The session, combined in Dolby Atmos, additionally featured ambisonic recording utilizing a Rode NT-SF1 mic and an underwater hydrophone mic from Cetacean Research Technology.
The track search was open to Master Class alumni spanning the occasion’s 10-year historical past, plus college students enrolled in ASSR’s on-line recording course and college students taking the ASSR video curriculum at Full Sail. In all, 84 submissions had been made, from college students to music professionals.