Thursday, 6 June 2013

Band recording


Setting up studio-

The first thing i did to set up the studio was to create a list of equipment that i needed. The equipment were:
4 mic stands
5 microphones
- C414 Condenser mic 
- Titian condenser mic 
- sure SM57
-  Rode NT5(x2)
Drum kit
Drum sticks
Acoustic guitar
Electric guitar
Guitar amp
Bass guitar
Bass amp
Pop shield
Xlr cable (x5)
Jack lead (x2)
Jack into xlr female lead (x3)
Female and male xlr port 
Interface
Mixer
Mac (logic)

First step: setting up the mic was the first thing I did was to grab the mic stand with the pop shield on then I left it by a place were we record vocals because there were noise cancelling walls that stops the sound from bouncing and creating reverb because the sound gets absorbed by the fabric on the wall. After that I plugged in the C414 Mic using I XLR cable to connect the male part of the socket into the female part on the XLR port. The XLR port is plugged in straight into the main mixer, so whatever we plug in it gets connected to the main mixer. 
Whilst i was doing that shashanni plugged in the other mic for the guitar and elliot plugged in all the mics for the drums .

Second step:
In the studio we had to make sure that before anything was turned on the main gain panel was turned down.
once we checked that we checked the list to see which mic needed phantom power. The microphones that needed  phantom power was TITAN, the C414 and the NT5 so we used the C414 on channel 1 for the vocals, the titan on channel 2 for the acoustic guitar and the NT5 for channel 3 and 4 for the symbols on the drums and sure SM57 for the kick drums on channel 5. On Channel 6 and 7 we used the metronome.

Third step:
Next step we had to take was turning the main gain on (which was the big red panel),after we had to turn the blue panel which is the sound that goes from the computer to the headphones, then we started out choosing how much gain we wanted for each channel, then we made sure that the right buttons was pressed for example daw button had to be pressed down to for the mixer to send the sound coming in to it to logic, we had to push the phantom power on to get power for the mics i needed to press A to send the cue send to the head phones.
Recording: when everything was set up we had to make sure that everyone was in place to record and we left someone in there to get help us record at the right time we communicated we him by speaking to the mic and he spoke to us by pressing  cue on the mixer. Once we recorded we used the usb stick to 

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