1st Recording

1st Recording

Entry 1 – 12/11/2013

Group: Shaq, Reg, Ron

Instruments: Acoustic Drums, Electric Drum Kit, Electric Piano

Microphones used: Audix D6, Shure SM57, SE Titan, Shure SM58

Set Up

We started the 1 hour session by deciding what instruments we would use as we would then be able to set the microphones up the specific instrument in places where the microphone would benefit and the recording would be perfect. First I set up the Audix D6 to Kick Drum on the Acoustic Drum set, as it picks up the kick better than any other microphone and we put this on a small stand with about 1 foot of distance between the microphone and the kick. We then plugged an XLR Cable into this and then connected it to the floor board which is connected to the interface which feeds into Pro Tool. We put the XLR Cable into ‘Input 1’ as this would make it easier to set up logic and wouldn’t be confusing with more instruments being added, also it will make it easier to set up Logic and record. The Second microphone we used was the Shure SM57 and this was placed on a normal stand and we put this stand to its height limit to bend it over so that the mic was placed in the middle of the drum kit because this mic is good for picking up high frequency sounds so the hi-hats would be picked up very well as well as the rest of the drum kit. This was again connected to the Floorboard with an XLR cable this was plugged into ‘Input 2’.

Recording

To record we opened up Logic and we created three tracks and labelled them with the name of the instrument that they were recording and changed the input of the track individually by changing the settings. We opened up these settings by selecting the I/O Option on the selected track, And changed the input to what microphone was recording that particular instrument, We then changed the output to something further away from the input as it would be confusing so for track one the Audix we made the settings “Input 1 Output 5”.  Before we recorded the engineer asked the performers to play their instruments so that the Amplitude could be corrected and the gain could be turned up and down so that it is all level and not one sound is overpowering the next. Once all the tracks were track enabled by pressing the record button we then recorded the live sounds. We recorded 3 microphones at one time

Problems

No Audio was coming from channel 3, everything was set up properly we were listening to the right thing on the interface and the problem was that someone before us had removed a piece of wiring at the back of channel 3 and had plugged it into channel 4. We fixed this by placing the wire back into channel 3.

In the Control room for studio 2 the engineer could hear the performers but could not be heard this was because of a faulty headphone connection but this was corrected by replacing the headphones.