Mallory Roberts — Salt Lake City Recording Connection

Mastering- A Whole New World - Posted by Mallory Roberts on 2017-06-11

Initally, I thought mastering was just putting the little deatailed touches on the mix. Wrong. It's getting the whole album ready for duplication and making sure all the levels are about the same throughout the whole album... Read More >>

Automation - Posted by Mallory Roberts on 2017-05-21

I didn't realize you could automate so many parameters. I've mostly seen my mentor automate volume depnding on if the vocal is in the chours or a verse... Read More >>

MIDI and me - Posted by Mallory Roberts on 2017-05-15

This assignment was rather difficult for me. There's a lot more routing to be aware of, which was half of my battle... Read More >>

Time Based Effects - Posted by Mallory Roberts on 2017-05-04

When I first started with recording connection, one of the first things my mentor (Joe Haze) taught me was about reverb... Read More >>

Years of experience to come - Posted by Mallory Roberts on 2017-04-23

My mentor and I talk a lot about EQ and compresson, as I'm sure most mentors do. I had always had a hard time grasping what compression was... Read More >>

Session sit ins - Posted by Mallory Roberts on 2017-03-29

I've been sitting in on a few sessions and my mentor and I have started digging into the mix part of things. I'm just scratching the surface of the surface, but being organized is so unbelievely important, on many different levels... Read More >>

Sine Wave Assignment - Posted by Mallory Roberts on 2017-03-04

This assignment was a fantastic way to see the in and outs of prtools. Of course, theres still more to learn, but it was very educational... Read More >>

Acoustic Guitar Set up - Posted by Mallory Roberts on 2017-02-17

I was able to set up a small acoustic guitar session, in which I was able to learn alot.    We used a small diaphgram condenser, a 414, and the SM7 on the singer... Read More >>

Tracking - Posted by Mallory Roberts on 2017-02-06

I'm realzing more and more going through this that this job will be a lot of bouncing back and forth. You have to be a technichan while being a professional producer who is interacting with the band and recording the track... Read More >>

Miking - Posted by Mallory Roberts on 2017-02-05

Holy crap! I knew going into this program there were going to be so many details that I havent even considered, but there is serisouly so much to know on JUST miking up a session... Read More >>