acoustics and monitoring - Posted on 2015-11-02 by Jesse Morgan

Last week we went over acoustics and monitoring in the studio. I learned a great deal on why the studio is asymetrical, and materials used to redirect, absorb, and break up sound. I learned the importance of monitor placement, and that the room you are monitoring in should be sound treated as much possible to prevent acoustic revebs from affecting what you are truly hearing. I also created a CD with songs that I know well, as a method of reference to what frequencies may be added or removed from various monitors.

Eric got me back on the mixing console, working on signal flow. I routed the CD players audio to 2 tracks, to the main bus, to 2 auxillary sends out to the studio floor, to 2 microphones we set up in MS position, back to the mixing monitors, created another track and phase inverted the side mic, panned left 1, panned right 2, and left the mid center pan...Very cool stereo trick.