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So, the worship team came all the way to Penang this week to conduct a Worship Conference in Excel Point Community Church. The workshops provided were Sound Mixing, Song Writing, Worship Leading and Album Production.

I signed up for the Album Production workshop as it will really help me understand what it takes to produce an album as I may be going towards that direction =O!!
Boy, do I learn so much from this! So this are the stuff that was shared;

Thoughts ::

1. Objective of producing an album
2. Expectations
3. Target group
4. Budget
5. Senior pastor's vision (do not live on somebody else's calling)

People needed to produce an album::

Executive Producer
Producer (envisions the whole production)
Music Arranger (improvise the raw songs)
Music Director (directs musicians)
Recording engineer
Mixing engineer
Mastering engineer (places all the pieces together)

Resources::

Songs
People
Equipments

So there are THREE parts in the production.
1. Pre-recording: 
*Line-up
*Songs
*Reference CD (which album do you want to sound like)
*Rehearsals

2. Recording
*Trial recording
* Have more sessions of recording to get the best sound
* Have a heart of worship in the midst of doing things

3. Post-production
* Get the general feel of the album
* Compiling first to last song
* Tracking (re-sing/overdub)
* Tuning (using softwares like auto tune, melodyne etc.)
* Quantizing (timing of music: drum replacement softwares)