Working In A Studio Atmosphere - Posted on 2013-07-16 by Kamela Singh

Date of Session: Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Time in: 11:00am
Time out: 5:00pm
Lesson #: 13

List one or two paragraphs on what you learned, what did you do?

This week is a continuation of last week where so much of the learning is actual hands on experience. As stated in my last blog, I am recording a couple of my songs at the studio, however, I pulled in some help from the other students at Trench Recordings. With the other students being musicians as well, they also got a chance to be part of my songs and record drums and guitar. Today we continued recording the drum tracks for the 2 songs that I am doing. The drummer and guitarist is the same person, and also another student from Recording Connections. As we finished setting everything up, I guided the drummer through the structure and layout of the songs and gave him a jist of how I wanted the basic beat to sound. Once we figured everything out, we started to record, taking many takes to allow the drummer to get comfortable with my song.

After a couple hours of recording, everyone took a break and then came back to listen to all the takes to see which ones we should keep or trash. Once we finalized the drums track we called it a day and everyone got a chance to take the files home to edit and play around with them. Today has been an amazing experience, can`t wait until this is my career.

Write down model numbers and manufacturers of equipment or gear you've worked on.    

• Soundcraft Ghost Console
• Classic API Mic Pres
• Neve N72 Mic Pres
• 1176 Compressor
• Pro Tools 9 HD
• AKG D112
• AKG C414
• Royer R121
• Sennheiser 421
• Sennheiser 441
• Audix D6
• Shure SM57
• Mic Stands

What do you feel were your strengths and weaknesses on this week’s lesson?