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Justin Bruckerhoff
On 10/25, I returned to the studio at Song Smith Records to cover material from Chapters 9 & 10 with Jeff. He demonstrated latency for me with a vinyl restoration he completed a few weeks back. We covered a handful of more key commands that can be used to make life a bit easier while using Pro Tools. Jeff also went over the various modes in the edit window such as slip, grid, shuffle, and spot mode and allowed me to use each of these modes. He showed me how to effectively use a reverb insert and adjust the levels appropriately. We went over the different preferences that are available in Pro Tools and he showed me how to make changes them. We also went over the playback engine, I/O setups, signal flow (which I’m getting quicker with tracing), and delay compensation.
We also talked about RTAS and TDM plugins and how they are different, and worked with compression and discussed the elements of it: threshold, ratio, knee, attack, release and overall gain. Jeff also showed me noise gate which he explained as the opposite of compression. He showed me how to mix drums by using noise gate to cancel out some of the other drum set components that you don’t want bleeding through the track.
The next day I returned to the studio to assist Jeff with a recording session with some of his students from TCC, who were recording “Johnny Be Good”. I was there for 6-1/2 hours from the beginning of setup to the end teardown. I helped set up mics for drums, guitar amps, vocals. I also set up the Pro Tools session with the appropriate sample rate and bit depth, the right number of tracks, and also set up the patch bay with some guidance from Jeff. It was a great learning experience sitting in on this studio session and getting the hands-on experience that has proved really effective in my overall learning.
