In Group A, we are recording a cover of “Jenny Don’t Be Hasty” by Paolo Nutini.
This week we recorded the drums for the track, which were played by Clementine. As this was the first week of recording, James Woodliffe provided Clementine with guide vocals while Daniel provided guide guitar. Ross and Adam were in charge of setting up the mics, as well as setting up the drum kit. The mics that were used for recording the drums were:
2x AKG 414 for overheads
SM57 for top snare
Audix i5 for bottom snare
2x Audix D2 for Toms
AKG D112 for kick drum
Audix ADX51 for room mic
This week I was in charge of operating the mixing desk, which meant it was my job to make sure that all 8 microphones were coming through the correct channels (channels 17-24), make sure that the gain levels were all correct, as well as sending the signal into Pro Tools, which was being operated by Olie. Olie created a new session on Pro Tools, using a 24in24out template, with the bitrate set at 44100 Hz (standard CD quality). Each track was labelled appropriately on Pro Tools, and then all of the tracks were grouped and colour coded, so the drum mics were set as one colour and the guide tracks another. A Click track was also assigned to channel 16, although this ended up being removed as the performers seemed to work better without it.