Basics of this week!
The aim of this weeks session was to complete the prosses of tracking the different parts that are going to make up the rest of our project. We then worked together as a group to put the studio together, so the mics we needed, the rooms, the communcations, controlroom mix, basic mix buid and foldback.
Signal processing!
We hadn’t used this yet until today, its another part of ‘tracking’. You use the audient EQ ‘prior to the recording’ and the outboard hardware compresstion.
Recording process and extra instruments!
We wanted to add keys, djembe, claps and a trombone. Sam played the trombone for us this week, we used 2 AKG C414 mics and spaced them away from each other and away from the trombone, so we had a stero trombone. Charlie, Joe, Filip and Anson recorded the claps in the liveroom, again we used two AKG c414 and placed one to the left of them and one to right of them but we did not have the microphones to close the claps as we didnt want a horrible clicking sound but a more realistic clap. When Charlie recored his djembe we used two dynamic mics, one places facing the skin to capture the slap and the other places at the bottom to pick up the bass sound.
Join me next week were I talk about my mixing process.