Week 1 - Posted on 2015-10-14 by Jesse Morgan

Very exciting... Started off with a tour of the studio. Eric went over the internal structure, explaining why the walls are non-symetrical, redirecting sound reflections and absorbing bass that likes to hangout in the corners. He further explained the reasoning for the floating walls and floor, and much more on the subject of the internal structure and how it relates to reflection, absorption, and over all recording quality.

    We then went over the locaton of mic, stereo in and out locations around the studio floor...Eric familiarized me with locaton of, well everything from chords, back-up power supplies.

   We then went over the chapter on sound and hearing. Eric was very helpful on answering my questions, for example i asked what are some techniques that can be used when dealing with competing frequencies or masking that may occur, in response EQing, compression, stereo imaging, adding a delay etc. I understand that it depends on the situation as he had explained. He also answered my question concerning how to tell if an instument has experienced a phase shift on the recording, I now understand that the low end is going to be more noticeably missing. Eric answered all my other questions to my satisfaction as well, he seems to be very knowledgeable and a good mentor.

   I spent a total of about 3 1/2 hours in the studio. The last hour or so Eric went over signal flow and auxillary sends. I got to get my hands dirty on the mixing console and reroute a recording to several different places with-in the studio. It was a little overwhelming at first, but i was given the time to practice both supervised and unsupervised, and was able to easily reroute the signal successfully to several different locations.

   Over all, it was a very good learning experience and i look forward to next week.