Scott and his band have been interviewed by the Bellmore Patch, in the past and have come out with multiple albums. Scott is always at work with music, but loves what he does. He is always out to help, for people who are willing to learn.

S c o t t M c I n t o s h

L o u d & P r o u d !

Noe1 Studios

Scott McIntosh, is the owner of Noe1Studios and my mentor. He gave me an overview of the sound-board which is a “system” table for mixing, and changing the level or dynamics of audio signals. A mixer can switch and analog be-tween different settings for a per-former or a band. Depending on which, each track can have differ-ent attributes that can be applied to them.

P a g e 2 N o e 1 S t u d i o s

“But there’s still tomorrow…” My very first cover was a song entitled “Last Train Home” by a band named Lostprophets. After I had gotten my internship, my mentor had told me to pick a song I would like to sing and I was singing this one in my head, so I de-cided for it to be this one. It turned out to be an “A capella” track, which means that it was only my raw voice, and no instrumentals or beat were on the track. After I had sung the track once, he told his other intern, Rebecca to “EQ” my voice. This means that she put a voice “modifier” on my voice, that way, it could raise or cut certain frequencies that Scott thought would be best fit for my voice at the time, and since I was only starting out, my voice “range” was pretty limited. For a first song, once that project was finished, we moved on to a new project to experiment with.

“We’ve all got scars, as big as ours.” With this next project, I chose “Bigger Than Love” by My Favorite High-way. There was a lot more done with this song. I had sang through the song as I usually would. After that, I had sang through the song another three times. However, those three times incorporated a different tactic. I sang one line of a song, but the end half of each line was being repeated by my voice. In other words, instead of “we’ve all got scars, as big as ours.”, In-stead of those tracks, being every line repeated again, it was only the “as big as ours” part, aka the end half of each line. This was created for the effect that others were singing along with me, like I had backup singers with me. I also drank coffee that day because I learned that it opens up vocal pipes.

“I know to you, it might sound strange..” This song marked the first song that I was “assigned” by my mentor. After singing through this song six full times, I was truly singing my heart out. I had six singing tracks from the start but Scott and Rebecca were working with me to see if I liked the sound of all of them. I had only really liked the sound of four of the tracks. To solve this problem, when I finished listening to all of the different playbacks, he left it up to me to choose my favorite four. When I chose my favorite four out of the six tracks, he “scrapped” the other two that I didn’t like and “combined” the four ones that I did like to create a harmonizing sound. This track was not an A capella like the previous two were, so you could hear my voice with the instrumentals of the original song and with the help of Rebecca, the track was equalized.

“What can make me feel this way?” This was the second track as-signed by my mentor. It was the first song that was “mastered” after it was fin-ished being recorded, also. I had sang the song through ten times for a total overview for the purest sound out of my voice. Even though I sang it through this time, more than previously, the actual re-cording process took a shorter time to finish. This song was mastered, and even tested out in a radio in the studio. It was really cool, and then it was “bounced” to a CD for me to take home and listen to it. It was really neat.

“Becoming late to my fate.” The line you see above is a line from my original song, “Don’t Run”, which I be-gan recording in March. I was inspired to come up with the idea, back from when I had told Scott that I wrote lyrics and came up with songs on my own accord. Not many people know that about me, but Scott believed in me and was willing to give it a try, and hope for the best. After I had completed my lyrics, everyone had thought that I had done a great job. The lyrics took me two weeks to cover, and re-cording the song took me three weeks. It was a shorter time than expected, be-cause we had backup singers as well, and we thought that the whole recording process was bound to take more time. We got together a drummer, a bass player, Scott, the two backup singers, and myself to record the song. It is definitely my greatest feat, and I can not wait for you guys to hear. In fact, let me get to that right now. Enjoy!