Back to school: studio

Today’s weather was crazy! It snowed in Denver. Yuck.

Good thing we didn’t have to walk to class tonight! Instead of the usual stroll to the Denver Performing Arts Center, we took a drive north of the city. Class tonight was held at an actual recording studio.

Now, this isn’t L. A. people, this is Denver. The recording studio was Randy’s house, who is a professional recording engineer. Can we just tell you that Randy looked like Jay and Silent Bob came together as one? It was so trippy!

Randy and our teacher, Brian

Randy was cool and laid back which made everything comfortable.

Our teacher asked us to bring in four, thirty-second pieces of copy for commercials to read that we like best.

Here is what we brought in:

– Bombay Gin: It’s pretty simple really. Either you want to drink a favorite gin…or you don’t. Bombay Sapphire. Gin…only better.

– Minute Maid Lemonade: Blue skies. Yellow lemons. One evenly refreshing day. Minute Maid Lemonade. Made with real lemons. For people who know lemonade. It’s Minute Maid.

– Ivory Soap: We jog every day, cause being lighter is important to us. And using natural products like Ivory, well, that’s a part of it. Ivory’s a natural soap — it doesn’t have a lot of perfumes and deodorants, and we like that. Ivory, it gets us naturally clean.

– Max Factor: Color Me Naughty. Color Me Nice. Now there’s a gloss for both sides of you. Introducing the MAXalicious Gloss Collection in naughty or nice shades. Collect them all to express your dueling personalities.

We guess you could say we love booze and making myself pretty. Who would have thunk?

Randy showed us around the studio and explained how the equipment worked. There a lot of moving parts when it comes to recording stuff.

All we wanted to do was push every button. He kept trying to explain the technicalities behind the mic but we couldn’t understand the jibber jabber. So, nod, smile, and lets moooove on.

We were nervous (excited nervous, not “this is gunna suck” nervous) when we got into the sound booth. We ran through all four pieces and ended up with Max Factor as being a favorite one. We hope it sounds okay because we are supposed to get it on a CD for a professional look. Um…yeah, we are just doing this for fun?

All in all, class tonight was helpful. One of the things we learned was to not project our voice as much because the mic does that for you. Excuse us for wanting to sound important. Geesh.

Next week is our second to last class. Not quite sure what’s in store but we hope it’s fun.

See ya!