Maxrowlands Music Blog

18th January  On Thursdays lesson me and tommy recorded the drums for our song 'if i ain't got you'. We first had to set up the mic's for the drum kit. This meant getting five dynamic microphones and three condenser microphones. We then set it up in order (Kick, snare, left tom, right tom, floor tom, left overhear, right overhead and hi-hat) Once the microphones had been set up we got 8 XLR cables and connected the microphones to the wall inputs that would run through to the mixing desk. We had to make sure the cables were set up in order too. Due to input 1 being broken we had to start at input 2. So to start off we would make sure that the kick drum being first of the drums was connected first. If the cables were placed in the wrong order it would makes things extremely difficult when doing the soundcheck as we would be un aware of which track is playing what part of the kit. We then went into the control room and set up 8 tracks on Logic, which we named and place