Studio session cinq

This week we had an extermly productive session nearly completing laying down an entire track. Once again we had a lack of a drummer so we got straight into guitar tracking. WE mic'd up the line 6 spider with a Shure Sm-57 front and back, i chose these mic's as i feel they capture the entire range and pick up the warmth of the track. The mic on the front picks up more of a general sound and the 57 on the back picks up a fairly bassy sound which gives the guitar tracks depth. We routed these through to channels 1 and 2 and patched the TLA compressor in. We allowed 3-5 gain reduction as this compresses the raw sound to give a more controlled and warmer sound but leaves enough raw material to use when mixing.

Whilst recording we had Dan sitting in the control room too make communication easier and allowed him to hear what we were hearing in the studio.

we managed to get all the guitars layed down and double tracked and were left with another session, Whilst Mary-Beth and reece set up mics and created a booth me and Dan Midi'd all the drum parts.

For the booth we used to fake walls either side the mic and had these positioned infront of the glass to allow for maximum communication during the vocals. We set up the booth to improve the room acoustics, this would lead to us getting a rawer vocal sound and not picking up too uch of the room reverb, this would allow us to be able to manipulate it later as you cant delete reverb, but you can add it later. We set up the AKG 414 with a cordioid polar pattern. The AKG was selected as it has a high sound pressure level capability and wide dynamic range to pick up the entire vocal range. The cordioid pattern was selected as it would pick up all the sound from the front of the mic but wouldnt pick up the reflection from the glass window behind it.

Whilst Dan was warming up his vocals we decided to make the most of the time and started laying down gang shouts. We surrounded the mic and layed down the shouts and started layering them up to pad them out and make them sound alot bigger.