Recording Drum kit for If i aint got you
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 placed in order. We then did a soundcheck to make sure all the tracks were adjusted to the right volume and that none of them were clipping. We did this by using the talk back button to speak to Tom who was playing the drums, we would ask him to play each piece of the drum kit individually so for example we would hold down 'Talk A' and say to Tom 'could you play the kick drum for us please' then whilst he is playing we would adjust the gain to make sure it sounds good. Once we had done the soundcheck we was ready to record the song. We asked Tom whether he wanted to have the song played back in the headphones which he did. After the first recording we noticed that the kick drum did not record. This was because they were both set to the same input. To overcome this problem we changed the input settings for the hi-hat to input 9 instead of input 2. Once we had fixed this problem we were ready to record again.
There were a couple of times during the recording when Tom didn't like what he had played so he asked us whether we could go back a bit and he would play over the top of what was recorded. In fact it took maybe 2-3 times for Tom to feel happy with the beginning of the recording and carry on playing the rest of the song. We also had to make sure that the playback volume wasn't too loud for Tom as he wanted to be able to hear himself as well as the track he was playing along to.
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 placed in order. We then did a soundcheck to make sure all the tracks were adjusted to the right volume and that none of them were clipping. We did this by using the talk back button to speak to Tom who was playing the drums, we would ask him to play each piece of the drum kit individually so for example we would hold down 'Talk A' and say to Tom 'could you play the kick drum for us please' then whilst he is playing we would adjust the gain to make sure it sounds good. Once we had done the soundcheck we was ready to record the song. We asked Tom whether he wanted to have the song played back in the headphones which he did. After the first recording we noticed that the kick drum did not record. This was because they were both set to the same input. To overcome this problem we changed the input settings for the hi-hat to input 9 instead of input 2. Once we had fixed this problem we were ready to record again.
There were a couple of times during the recording when Tom didn't like what he had played so he asked us whether we could go back a bit and he would play over the top of what was recorded. In fact it took maybe 2-3 times for Tom to feel happy with the beginning of the recording and carry on playing the rest of the song. We also had to make sure that the playback volume wasn't too loud for Tom as he wanted to be able to hear himself as well as the track he was playing along to.
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