So first thing we did was got James to get us all the equipment and set up the equipment in the room, Alie helped out as well as being the performer! Alie decided she would rather be put out of the way so she couldn't be seen by anyone else but me and Adam. So taking the artists needs into consideration we placed her out of the way with her back to us whilst she was performing. As Adam (guitarist) didn't mind where he was put we placed him more in the centre of the room. The set up didn't take us very long, took us a maximum of 20 minutes to make sure everything was in place.
Afterwards me, Adam and James went back into the studio and got the studio all set up and running. This mainly consisted of me and Adam doing the studio side of things as seen as he was producer and I was the engineer. After we got the studio up and running we proceeded with the sound check straight away, after getting the levels right and making them comfortable we thought we'd give them 10 minutes to run through the song before recording so they could warm up and get ready for the recording. Alie and Adam (guitarist) decided that they wanted to do a live recording instead of doing it separately so no headphones at this point were needed. Once we started recording we stumbled across a problem which we couldn't work out for ages! The instruments were coming through louder when we was recording than when we played it back. It turns out the monitors weren't turned up enough, silly I know but we managed to solve the problem. Whilst the recording process was going well James decided to give up half way through for some unknown reason so yet again we was left with just a two member team as Alie was being recorded. However, me and Adam got on with it as usual and didn't do a bad job at all, he helped me by giving me advice on what we should do. For example, after recording one song we played it back and Adam asked Alie and Adam what they thought of the recording themselves, he suggested if they would like to re-record and what he thought of the recording. He also helped me out with some of the engineering side of things. We re-recorded both of the songs again as Alie wasn't satisfied with her vocals.
Overall, I thought the microphones we used were a very good choice as they gave us a very nice clean, clear sounding vocal and a nice crisp clean sounding acoustic guitar. D.I'ing the acoustic guitar as well as micing it up gave us a more fuller sound than just using the microphone. This suited the sound we wanted for our acoustic album and were very satisfied with the final result of this recording session. If I could've done anything differently I would've paid more attention to what was going on with the monitors, however making this mistake will show me in future how to solve it if it was to ever occur again.
Once again, pictures will be added ASAP having trouble uploading things lately!
Thanks for reading,
Chazzy!
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