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The Beginning of the End

Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Tonight the TEENz album committee had a meeting @ Burger King, Bugis, Singapore. A small bunch of us gathered 'round the table and discussed about the "beginning of the end"..

almost every live recording will have a "re-dub"/re-recording (even 'live' recording CDs you hear from hillsong & integrity music), but the original atmosphere & background sound will remain to preserve the original feel & anointing of that day of concert.

when the sound tracks of 16 march's concert were recorded & lightly balanced (volume)and being listened again, u will hear some minor or major mistakes that will need to be fixed. Like a note that the singer sang juuuuust a little out of tune, the drummer that missed a beat, the guitarist might strum a wrong chord, etc..

it is very common for these mistakes to appear especially when u are out there on stage, 14 songs, leading the crowd to worship. So our Mr Titus drafted out a timeline & schedule of the re-recording sessions that will last till june/july. Boon Fei's gonna confirm the schedule with the PA guy and first we will record the drums by next week, the backbone of rhythm, followed by the bass guitar.. blah blah... vocals.. choir.. there will always be something going on every week from now on..

listened over & over & over.. the live recording track.. fill in empty spaces, correct mistakes, sing nicely, play professionally..
All these at the re-record stage, then only followed by mixing, mastering, printing...

"woah.."

After 12 months, begun by vocal auditions for backup vocalists, musician selection, song selection, music arranger selection, arranging songs, fine tune lyrics & melody of written songs, months, hours of practice, musician prac, vocal prac, marketing planning, stage management, transportation logistics, group practices, choir practices, final rehearsals.

Now the 1st half has ended.

Let the hard work begin, again.

All for you, all for God, we give our best =)

**The committee is thinking of having an album cover design competition, still not sure whether this suggestion will really happen, heh heh =P

Show you an example from Hillsongs.. =)

This is a video of the live recording with live audio mix, meaning that the sound recording is purely from that night, without any studio modification.

And below is the final product after re-recording, mixing & mastering.
Able to hear the difference? (especially in quality & some minor changes)
Enjoy this great song =)

Hosanna

(Verse 1)
I see the king of glory
Coming down the clouds with fire
The whole earth shakes, the whole earth shakes
I see his love and mercy
Washing over all our sin
The people sing, the people sing

(Chorus)
Hosanna, hosanna
Hosanna in the highest

(Verse 2)
I see a generation
Rising up to take the place
With selfless faith, with selfless faith
I see a new revival
Staring as we pray and seek
We're on our knees, we're on our knees

(Bridge)
Heal my heart and make it clean
Open up my eyes to the things unseen
Show me how to love like you have loved me
Break my heart for what is yours
Everything I am for your kingdom's cause
As I walk from earth into eternity

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