Composing Music

My final project example I'll be documenting will be a recording session of our school band. Throughout this section our band will be covering 3 pieces although I will only be showing the very first piece. Recording the band was very limited as most of my resources were very old. So I decided to take my Yamaha mixer and use 4 of the schools microphones to record. All sound effects afterwards were added on FL Studio 12. After trial and error I've concluded that recording a large band of about 20 people requires much more than 4 microphones but unfortunately due to my mixers max limitation of 4 microphones and the hassle it would be to set up any more I had to make due. This is the first recording session of my project. After adding reverb and delay I noticed the intense volumes of sound coming from the percussion and saxophone so I've added an equalizer to attempt to lower these sounds. Unfortunately it seems that doing this results in a general lowered "quality...

This second piece is from an OST from Orange, the original piece can be found here. I'll be using a midi to build a base for this piece, one that I have found linked in this video. unfortunately the MIDI file included has some odd notation, everything is very short and played in a staccato style, this may have been due to the MIDI being created live from a keyboard without editing. So my first objective was to extend all the notes and fix any errors, which took approximately an hour. After was finding what note had the melody, and bass line so I could extend these notes for other instruments such as a cello and flute. In the end I ended up taking the bass line  and moving it several octaves down while adding and fine tuning to my own personal preferences. After everything was finished with notation and instrumentation, I added sound effects such as reverb and delay to create a more realistic sound. This in total took two days (9 hours aprox.) Here i...