AA1 - Week 2 - Recording Studio Start Up Procedures

So we were shown how to properly start up Studio 2 in the EMU, it was pretty cool as we got to see the practical stuff of music technology. At the end of the class, we were asked to book a few sessions and perform the start up procedures. I booked Friday 10AM and Monday 1PM.

Friday 10AM
Went to Studio 2 to try out starting up a studio (and do the CC1's homework too, which is to record paper sounds). It felt so cool going into a studio by myself... Switched on the lights, then checked that the speakers are off and then then mains power. Then I did as the instruction sheet instructed and switched on the rest of the machines, which pretty much look alien to me. I used the Avalon pre-amps because David showed us how to use that one earlier on.

Then, I got an SM58 and a mic stand to try out recording the paper sounds, but I thought I couldn't get any input to the pro tools. So I went in and out the studio to the mic cabinets like a madman for roughly 10 minutes before settling on the SM58 again (I took out NT3's too but couldn't find the battery!).

After connecting the stuff I needed to connect to on the patchbay (mic to HiZ Avalon input, Avalon output to ProTools input and ProTools output to line 15 and 16 for playback), I could record the paper sounds.

Shutdown procedures was just as easy as start up, switched off the speakers, normalised everything on the Mackie and switched off the rest of the machines.

I'll do that again on Monday.

Monday 1PM
This session went well, I have memorised the procedures (although I referred to the paper just to make sure). No problems at all in terms of mics as I didn't need to run back and forth like I did before this (I used the SM58 again).

Instead of using Avalon pre-amps, I used the Mackie pre-amps this time. Recorded more samples of the paper sound.