recording sessions

me and my group of three others had to set up and record live sessions with actual artists for part of our music assingnment, we had to do three intotal, so here is a short sumnmery of what happened.

when we got to the studio we met the artists which consisted of a guitar and a vocalist.

the first thing we did was record a song with a backing track with the backing track coming through the headphones on channel 23-24, this went well although the backing track was being played through the studio monitors and then being picked up by the studio mic (oppps)
the next track we did was the vocalist with the guitar, we set up the blumein configuration of two SM57's (dynamics) however because we had used dynamic microphones we had to turn the gain up quite high so we could hear it and we lost some of the frequencies if we had used a condenser we could have recorded the full frequency range.


for our second recording we swapped duties so me and one other (who set up the mics last time) went in to the control room to do that to let the others set up the mics. this band was a full rock metal band with one vocalist, a bass/backing singer, a lead guitar and a full drum kit, because this band was so big and needed 12 individual channels for all the mics we decided to group all the drums to two groups and every thing else to another, this meant having to use the patch bay. during the first recording we realized that the lead vocal and the backing vocal microphones were picking up sound from the other instruments. to solve this we asked them to continue playing but with out the vocals which we recorded and added in later.

the final group was a duo with a vocalist, acoustic guitar and a bass guitar, because the bass guitar and the acoustic guitar were played by the same person we had to record them separately, so to start we recorded the vocals and the acoustic guitar with a click track so they could keep in time, then we plugged the bass guitar in to the direct input on the mixing desk and recorded it directly from there so the basest could listen to what we had already recorded to help him keep in time.