--- - Wednesday April 9th - Ice Breaker - Name your favorite plugin!!! - Sound Showcase Announcement - Multiple approach to tracking - in-line track comping approach - alternating track comping approach - quick punch - Pre-Roll - Making a Song - Tracking Drums - Two different approaches to mic placement (towards center, towards edge) - Tracking Piano - Tracking Guitar - Tracking Vocals - Wednesday, March 26th, 2025 - Have you submitted homework? - Rhythm Section Setup! - Wednesday, March 19th, 2025 - Things to improve for next time - If changing setup, document it! - Break off into Session Roles - [[1 . Lead Engineer]] - The Lead Engineer was unassigned, but the setup sheet functions as the guidelines for everything that needs to be done, so everyone needs to be the lead engineer in a way and accountable. - [[2 . Mic Setup Team]] - This team did a great job. - Efficient setup and they conveyed their work to the control room via the foldback - Good cable management - [[3 . Console Team]] - This team did pretty well, but the setup that they followed was not explicitly documented on the setup sheet - If there is an audible, change the routing on the sheet! - [[4 . Patchbay Team]] - This team made a lot of errors. - There were audibles called that weren't documented - Patching was never completed. - [[5 . DAW Team]] - The Tracks should have been renamed up front - Input Output Routings did not reflect setup sheet - [[6 . Communications Team]] - The patching for the Hearback was never completed - [[7 . Video Team]] - [[8 . Duality Remote Team]] - Session Setup Homework - Session Setup (repeat last week with modifications) - Figure out what we are recording - Close attention to [[9. Listen Patch]] and [[03 . Foldback and Talkback Patching]] - [[06 . Re-amping]] - Classroom - 84-15 - X32 - Wednesday, March 12th - Go over Session Setup Homework - Nakul will create a Canvas assignment for you with instructions, but the best way is to copy and paste the format that you see within the RAT Sessions Folder - Minimum requirement is, setup the sheet so that you have at least 8 audio sources that you can record into ProTools - Looking at it from the control room, the wall panels are as following (stay tuned for a more comprehensive article on this) - See [[Studio A Diagram]] to know where wall panel connections are - Things that wen't wrong/Things to improve for next time - Re-amp patch for bass - Incorrect patch - The XLR cable that was supposed to the amp went to the MIC - Bad cable - The XLR cable that was supposed to go to the re-amp went bad - Talkback patch is not working as expected - Midimaze has been refreshed - Wednesday, march 5th - [[BEDA]] - [[1 . Studio A Outboard Gear]] - Wednesday, February 26th - [Studio Session - Jake Viramontez](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ihEI-Ir7pgX-fvuhMolwqu4l2GL7qPBm?usp=sharing) - [Session Roles](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1psHVZXUFU9pxMx1FZ1E-3EI1MOob7BVq0cK-xyTVyA0/edit?usp=sharing) - Wednesday, February 19th - [[01 . Four Steps of Recording]] - [[5 . Metering Different Circuits]] - Preparing for a Complete Session - Mic'ing drums - Mics as equalizers - Snare top vs Snare bottom - Confirming routing to prevent mismatches - Kick in vs Kick Out - Wednesday, February 12th - [[4 . Engaging Different Circuits]] - Recording Celine - Realizing the importance of [[06 . Exercising Channels]] - Steve Albini mic technique on piano - EQ'ing low frequencies - Wednesday, February 5th - [[03 . Studio A Signal Flow - Tracking and Playback]] - Normalled, Half-Normalled, and Thru Connections