For our Music Recording Project, we were tasked to use Freestyle’s professional recording studio to record a musician’s music using Pro Tools and produce it into one digital song. The purpose of the project was to learn how to create and produce our own Pro Tools session and to learn how to collaborate with a team to create a product.

Meet Our Guitarist

Our guitarist, Santiago Castillo, is a gifted Sophomore who plays the guitar. He came to the studio fully prepared, cranked out takes back to back while being completely focused the entire time. He was the best person we could’ve asked for this project, he was extremely personable and easy to work with.

Behind the Scenes Stuff

Album Art

Final Product

Reflection

For my portion of the assignment, I collaborated with Stephen in recording and producing a song with the guitarist Santi Castillo to create a rendition of Nirvana’s “The Man Who Sold the World.” Mr. Flo taught us how to set up a Pro Tools Session and tasked us to help Santi set up his equipment, we took turns recording different takes and decided which take we liked the most.

Stephen has worked with Santi before, and he told me he would be great for this project. What I found out was that he was the best person to ask for this project, he is a talented musician who made the process easy and efficient.

Overall, this project taught me a lot about collaborating with my peers to record and produce music in a real studio setting. It was more straightforward than I thought it would be, and getting to work with Stephen and Santi made me realize how fulfilling it is to help produce an artist’s work. I’m totally interested in working with them in the future with projects like this.