Radio Production – Week 3

This week we recapped on the history of radio, starting from the beginning when Marconi set up us the first transmitter and radio station 2MT in Chelmsford in 1922 as a consortium calling themselves the British Broadcasting Company. We also covered constructing and deconstructing radio programmes and listened to a few clips of broadcasts and […]

Welsh Language Music Day

What a culturally amazing day, after setting up the sound system with Colin, Steff and Aaron, both myself and Aaron where left to soundcheck the artists. We started with a poet, then a solo singer, a pop group some rappers and a choir all performing in welsh and English. Such amazing talent..!!

Synthesis – Week 2

This week we created a basic synthesiser using MAX 7, I am becoming more familiar with the software and it’s becoming a bit addictive. Today I learnt the following new functions:- cycle~ a sine wave oscillator rect~ a sawtooth oscillator tri~ a trianlge oscillator Selector~ which assigns several inputs to one output +~ which adds […]

Introducing me….

My name is Peter Davies, I am 46 years old and currently studying BSc (Hons) in Sound Technology at Wrexham Glyndwr University. Why am I doing this? This blog is going to give you an insight into a mature student studying a Creative Media degree. I am going to try and post on a daily […]