Jessica ShermanChicago Recording Connection

Tracking Posted on 2014-03-20 by Jessica Sherman

This past week I started learning about tracking songs. There was a lot on preparing for the meeting with the client(s) which is really important. Things like taking notes on the musicians and their instruments, positioning of mics before they arrive to the studio, being ready for unexpected changes, being open to different things but also keeping it organized. It helps in setting the studio up to know all the mics and which ones work best for which instruments, it makes it much qiucker. I'm just downloading Protools so I haven't gotten into all that yet but this week at the studio, I got to see some mixing get done while a producer came in to tell Joe how he wanted some of the songs to sound. It was super interesting to see that side of the business instead of the artist just coming in to record. I'm excited to learn about mixing and mastering, it's where the engineer has the most freedom to make the music sound as good as possible. Joe is really good at what he does, he said mixing is his favorite part of what he does. I think it'll take a lot of practice to understand Protools fully, there are so many things you can do on it, but I'm excited and ready to jump in. The next chapter I'm getting into is the Intro to Protools so I'll be filling lots of pages in my notebook this week. 

« Return to Jessica Sherman's Blog

More Blog Entries from Jessica Sherman

Jessica Sherman

Acoustics and MonitoringPosted by Jessica Sherman on 2014-06-21

This past week I learned mostly about how a room should be set up to hear the best acoustics. It's important sound doesn't reflect anywhere so none of the walls are parallel, there are no 90 degree angles anywhere and there are diffusers and absorbers on the walls and ceilings... Read More >>

Jessica Sherman

AutomationPosted by Jessica Sherman on 2014-06-16

Automation was cool to learn because I had been wondering about it before. Joe uses it when he's mixing for things like volume and delays and I didn't quite get what he was doing so it was nice to learn that and put it together... Read More >>