My sonic components- listening-diary

Tia Leoni Lewis
Nov 20, 2015
3 min read

Date / time

Artists & song

Genre

How you accord the music

Sonic components

1.

13/10/2015

15:30

The weekend- the hills lyric video

R&B

YouTube

Distortion: little bit of distortion at the beginning. I think it adds a nice change to the beginning of the track. The bass also has a little bit of distortion throughout the chorus. There is also distortion on the vocal parts of the track. Especially on the chorus.

Reverb: there is slight reverb on the vocal parts of the track. This is where I can hear a slight echo on the ending of the vocal notes.

Panning: I can’t hear any panning

Decay:

Clarity: the sound isn’t really that clear.

Auto tune: I think there is a bit of auto tune on the vocals in this track or it sounds a bit distorted with a bit of echo.

Pitch shift: this is used on the chorus. This is changing the pitch of the vocals in the

Time stretching: The timing of this track is different from the actual version. This one has been time stretched to be slightly quicker. This is however noticeable from the original. They will have had to of done this for copyright purposes. In my opinion I like how it is slightly faster in this version.

2.

31/10/2015

09:33 pm

Taylor swift- shake it off

pop

youtube

Distortion: sounds like distortion is on the trumpet or the synthesizer in the background. A bit of distortion on the vocals.

Reverb: little bit of reverb on the vocals, only very slightly though.

Panning: sounds like the backing vocals is panned very slightly but quickly

Decay:

Clarity: the vocals and instruments are clear to hear.

Auto tune: maybe a bit of auto tune on the vocals

Pitch shift:

Time stretching:

3.

31/10/15

09:17pm

Joe weller- wanna do

house

youtube

Distortion: maybe abit of distortion on the vocals to.

Reverb: reverb on the vocals.

Panning:

Decay:

Dynamic:

The dynamic changes through the song near the built up areas.

Clarity: the sound is very clear to hear. Smooth transitions, vocals easy to understand, beat easy to follow

Auto tune: auto tune on the vocals slightly

Pitch shift: maybe pitch shift on the vocals.

Time stretching:

Fade: there sounds like there is fade on the synth melody bassline in the background, slow fade on

4.

31/10/15

11:01 pm

Fetty wapp- Jugg

Hip hop

YouTube

Distortion: sounds slightly distorted. On the bass in the background. Sounds slightly distorted heavy bass.

Reverb: echo on the vocals along with the harmony in the background.

Panning: no panning

Decay:

Clarity: clear sound. Accent stops the vocals from being the very clearest but you can still make it out. Apart from the slight distorting sound it is overly clear to hear.

Auto tune: slight auto tune maybe

Pitch shift:

Time stretching:

5.

31/10/15

11:08pm

Fetty wap- come my way

Hip hop

youtube

Distortion: bass is slightly distorting the sound, also sounds slight distortion on the backing vocals.

Reverb: reverb on the melody bassline. A lot on the vocals at the start

Panning:

Filters: if no distortion on the backing vocals then a filter is being used (can’t remember what filter though) maybe a low pass filter.

Clarity: sound is overall clear but the s=distortion slightly makes it hard to hear everything clean (which seems how they were trying to make it sound).

Auto tune: maybe slight auto tune on the vocals.

Pitch shift: maybe pitch shift on the backing vocals

Time stretching:

6.

31/10/15

11:14pm

Waste gash- mutated forms

Dirty drum and bass

YouTube

Distortion: very slight distortion

Reverb: reverb is on the vocals

Panning: