Isolation and Separation
We had to figure out how to get audio from the mixing room to 2 separate live rooms and looked at the techniques we could use to do so.
Isolating certain instruments during recording would reduce bleeding into each other mics. For example: recording in the same room with multiple mics set up for drum, bass, guitar and vocals. The drums would effect the vocals, the guitar amp would effect the drums. Some suggestions to reduce bleeding was using screens and have the guitar player record in the mixing room and drums and vocals in 2 separate rooms; the issue of this however was that it would make it difficult for the engineer to play around with the levels as the guitarists would have to hear the whole track. Another suggestion was that they could record one at a time, but that would be too time consuming and most musicians would need to hear the other instruments to play along with for cues. A crucial pair which supports this would be the drummer and guitar specifically for the high hat as this forces the guitarist to stay in time. Also vocals and bass player. Vocalists pitch using the bass whether they know it or not.
Set up mics in both rooms
Connected XLR
Connected mic and headphones to patchbay.
Tried to get the audio to both headphones in two separate rooms using aux sends
We had to find a way to connect CTRL Room 1 with Live Room 2 as it cant be done directly. So we set up mics in Live Room 1 and 2.
Went to the patch bay and connected the 2 rooms using an xlr cable.
We learnt how to isolate certain sounds using pre fader. So if I wanted to send just the drums to a guitarists I would use the Pre Fader as I could change the levels in the CTRL Room and it wouldn't effect the headphone mix. If it wasn't used this would cause issues as performer would be distracted from constant level change meaning there timings would be off ultimately messing up the recording.
Pre-faders allow effects to remain the same level. So if I was using reverb and lowered the fader on my end it would still remain the same, whereas with a post fader it would increase or decrease depending on my fader.
We had to figure out how to get audio from the mixing room to 2 separate live rooms and looked at the techniques we could use to do so.
Isolating certain instruments during recording would reduce bleeding into each other mics. For example: recording in the same room with multiple mics set up for drum, bass, guitar and vocals. The drums would effect the vocals, the guitar amp would effect the drums. Some suggestions to reduce bleeding was using screens and have the guitar player record in the mixing room and drums and vocals in 2 separate rooms; the issue of this however was that it would make it difficult for the engineer to play around with the levels as the guitarists would have to hear the whole track. Another suggestion was that they could record one at a time, but that would be too time consuming and most musicians would need to hear the other instruments to play along with for cues. A crucial pair which supports this would be the drummer and guitar specifically for the high hat as this forces the guitarist to stay in time. Also vocals and bass player. Vocalists pitch using the bass whether they know it or not.
Set up mics in both rooms
Connected XLR
Connected mic and headphones to patchbay.
Tried to get the audio to both headphones in two separate rooms using aux sends
We had to find a way to connect CTRL Room 1 with Live Room 2 as it cant be done directly. So we set up mics in Live Room 1 and 2.
Went to the patch bay and connected the 2 rooms using an xlr cable.
We learnt how to isolate certain sounds using pre fader. So if I wanted to send just the drums to a guitarists I would use the Pre Fader as I could change the levels in the CTRL Room and it wouldn't effect the headphone mix. If it wasn't used this would cause issues as performer would be distracted from constant level change meaning there timings would be off ultimately messing up the recording.
Pre-faders allow effects to remain the same level. So if I was using reverb and lowered the fader on my end it would still remain the same, whereas with a post fader it would increase or decrease depending on my fader.
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