end of the semester

For me, it has been a great semester for many reasons. In general I think that was a good form to work in this class, because it is too didactic and funny and make our learning to be faster than other type of education.

In respect to my writing skills, I think I have been able to develop with each blog that we had to do. Obviously I have to practice a lot if a want to write like a "gringo" or something like that. I never give up about develop my abilities. 

In a future, not too far, I could keep the habit of "blogging" and talking about, I don't know, about my university's life or whatever I imagine.

If in the future all goes like I have planned, I could write in the blog again about the concerts of all the bands that I make sound or the groups that I record in my future recording's studio. This would be good for my job and for the popularity of that bands/groups.

But for now, do not know what to write, so we will see us next time when I think in something enough creative for publish in this blog. See ya later

Movies

It's complicated for me to talk about my favourite movie because I have a favourite movie for each category. For science fiction my favourite is Star Wars (all the saga), for epic-fantasy I love The Lord of the Rings because I love the books of that saga, etc. I can continue tell you the movies for each category but the main category that I like is hero comic stories, especially from marvel comics because I am like a super fan of all that comics. For me, the movies could be like another point of view for that stories and that is the main reason why I always go to the cinema to be the first who see it.

My favourites actors are Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, Robert Downey Jr. and Sam L. Jackson and my favourites actress are Zooey Deschanel, Emma Watson, Emma Stone, Jennifer Anniston, Scarlett Johansson and Rachel McAdams.
I think I am a culture person movie because I see too much movies every weekend with my father and now, its like a saturday's routine.
At this time I prefer to see movies with my girldfriend, even if the movie is bad, because we can also laugh about something more.

Music

Since I was only a child I really like to hear all type of music, but with the time I begin to prefer the rhythms like Rock, Metal, Blues and, my favourite, Jazz.

The Jazz influenced me to want to play saxophone, so I learn to play and then I enter to Music Interpretation in Universidad Catolica. Next three years studying classic sax, I prefer to stop because I do not like to much the classic music. I just wanted to play and hear the music that I like.

Also, I play another instruments like guitar, bagpipe, bass and others.

Currently I am in a band with some friends since 2012 for the first "Battle of the Bands" in my school. Our group is called "Crazy Adams" because when we had to register to the event, I was singing the Crazy Adams Show theme and the name was attractive to us. At today we only plays covers of blues, rock an roll and country music and some jazz improvisations, but actually we want to start to create our own music. We are looking something like Elvis or a fusion of jazz, blues, bossa nova and others rhythms like that. 

Pasta

I like the pasta so much, such the fettuccine, spaghetti and... other pastas. In short, I like the Italian food. I love to cook and eat ( especially eat ) pastas, because is easy to cook, are inexpensive and  very delicious when are prepared well.
In the "pastas world", my favourite plate is the fettuccine with shrimp in white sauce or "Shrimp Fettuccine in Garlic Cream Sauce". It is my favourite form to eat fettuccine and shrimps.
                           

                         

I love to cook this recipe, but in general I like to cook because I can also do the food to my taste but for this recipe, I really love how is cooked by my grandmother. She is one of the best cookers in my family, she know how to cook everything and also, everything that she do is amazing.

Another thing that I love to eat are the chips like "Great Value" and "Lays Stax", but only the original flavour, I don't like to much the others flavours. Its something that cant fault in my house, because I eaten everyday.

                         

And that's all about my food tastes folks.

"Big" Mick Hughes

The sound engineer that I choose is "Big" Mick Hughes because is the live audio engineer for Metallica that is one of my favorite metal groups. He's with this band since 1984.

He was born in 1960 and grow up in Birmingham, England. Big Mick has mixed Metallica at every one of the more than 1500 shows they have preformed since their November 1984 tour of europe, with only one exception. In 1988, on the Load/Reload tour, Big Mick had hearth palpitations and he was hospitalised. The Armoury Show's management company QPrime then asked Mick to engineer a band they had just signed called Metallica (prompting Mick to ask "What's heavy metal?" when told the genre of music they played) starting a relationship that has lasted nearly 30 years.
The most important reason why I admire him, it's because his work fot that band had been amazing, not any person is working with a band for so long, considering the difficulty of their work.

     Bick Mick mixing in a concert  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMV_N1yx0l0

Pets rulez

I currently have a dog, his name is Locky like the dog of "101 dalmatians".  His is an fox terrier and his hair is white with black stains in his loin.
Locky was born in November 1th of 2008, and I had been with him since 2009 to this date. I meet him when he only had 2 months. He was a little and beautiful furball with legs. Now, he's like an "old guy" because he is very small and has a moustache characteristic of his breed.
When I am with Locky, I like to play with him or "walk the dog" because he is so restless. Also when I go to the park to do exercise, I let him run free because he LOVE to run.
Generally he is a friendly dog and brother and I'm very happy to be with him at this moment.

                                                              Locky in his bed, 2011

my favorite piece of technology

My favorite gadget is my mixer table that I use in some music presentations.




Is an object that it's used to equalize and mix differents sounds (or music) at the same time. You can connect others things like microphones, samplers, synthesizers, etc. This gadget work with the stereo and mono audio.

I got my mixer table last year for christmas because I always want to have one but I had not the money until that day.

When I decide to buy it, I went to AudioMusica because I remember had listen in some place that will be a christmas offer for sound technology. I went, I saw it and I buy it.

I use my mixer everydays because I entered to Sound career to learn how to use it like a professional.

I really love mixers because since I was only a child, I always being interested in the sonidist of metal and jazz bands.

I think that my life would be the same because I like to do so much other things and m life doesn't depend on an object.

hi there, smtg about me

My name is Franco Mella. I was born in Santiago, Chile in september 17th, nineteen years ago. I spent majority of my childhood in La Cisterna, where I went to the primary school. In that school I started playing playing basketball when the group And1 went to do an exhibition. On 2010 I moved to La Florida (where I'm now) and I started in the secondary. When I was studying, I decide to study sax interpretation because I always had been interested in the music and I enter to Universidad Católica in 2011.

Now I'm living with my mother, grandmother and my dog and I'm studying Sound in Universidad de Chile.

Apart of my studies I love to play basketball. I'm something like an active fan of the NBA and Chicago Bulls. Also I continue playing saxophone whit my Jazz/Blues band and I like to meet new instruments to learn about all of them.