Drum Tracking Session. Greenrooms 1 from 17:15. We arrived at the technical store early to start getting out the appropriate microphones. We used the following: Kick in 1 Shure Beta91 Kick in 2 AKG D112 Kick out Subkick Snare top Beyerdynamic m201 Snare bottom Shure SM57 Read more…
Over the summer I recorded a song called What Can I Do with piano and 2 vocal tracks, but have only now taken the time to mix it. I did the mix entirely on hardware apart from edits. Considering I only had 4 inputs into the desk (stereo piano and 2 vocals) the complexity of the routing became crazy. The piano was simple, having processed the signal on input the only thing I added was Read more…
Today in the studio I was with my recording 2 group trying out different mics and placements for snare recording. We used the following microphones: 2x SM57 2x Beta SM57 1x Beyerdynamic M 201 1x Rode NT5 We had one 57 and one beta on both the top and the bottom, the beyerdynamic was also on top and the NT5 was on the bottom. We tried 2 different angles for the mics on the top Read more…
Greenroom 2 Today I was in the studio again this time tracking some vocals. I recorded in the control room because I was recording myself and wanted to be able to view the meters. The signal chain was as follows. Neumann M147 Focusrite ISA430 Warm Audio 2A (An LA2A clone) SSL XL mixing desk MOTU audio interface Pro Tools This tracking session was to redo some of the vocal lines for Boulevard of Broken Dreams. Read more…
Boulevard of Broken Dreams – Greenrooms 2 Today I went into the studio with a friend of mine, Alex Shepard, he did a very similar degree to me at Huddersfield a couple of years ago. We arrived at 17:15 and were sat down with the session loaded up by 17:30 and I had made a very quick fix to the bass making a cut on the bass bus. We then sat back and listened to the Read more…
I began with my list of things to improve from my last session by immediately addressing the issue with bass. I went to my 5 bass tracks and listened to each in tern to refresh my memory of what I have. They are as follows: The bass cab recorded using an MD421 A duplicate of this with some heavy eq and compression The DI signal The cab recorded with an SM57 A re-amped distorted Read more…
Today I met up with my recording 2 group for the first time try out a few different room mics and overheads, see what we like the most for different things. We used: A stereo matched pair of C414s, set to cardioid, with a HPF at 80Hz as over heads A pair of KM184s as overheads (the capsules immediately next to those of the 414s) A pair of U87s as a Blumlein pair about 3 Read more…
When I got into the studio today I got myself sat down and my pro tools session loaded. And began to look at the SSL XL Desk. It has a bus compressor that I used later in the session and 4 mix buses. Not a desk that I’ve used before but its simple enough to find your way around once you’ve worked out that 500 means EQ. Once the protools session had loaded I got Read more…
Drum Tracking for Blessed Be Your Name Drummer: Matt Clarkson We arrived at the studio at 17:00, 15 minutes before our scheduled start time and began taking out mics from the technical store so that we could enter and begin at the very beginning of our session. From a time management point of view we didn’t hit all of our targets; we weren’t fully set up until 18:15, 15 minutes later than I had Read more…
At 17:15 I have booked Greenrooms 4 to do some mixing tweaks to my final project from last year with a view to putting it online at some point in the not to distant future. In preparation for that I am sample reinforcing the kick drum using a sample I created in Greenrooms 1 in February of 2016 using a D112 and SM57. When I get into the studio I am aiming to achieve a bigger Read more…