Erich and Osato had
to overcome some serious issues during the course of this 10-hour session,
and, in the end, the recording sounds good. Quan and the group did a great job
and a big thanks to them for being so patient. Amazing. We may be able to do a
return session for overdubs at some point.
I’ll just mention two of the more serious problems, because
I am trying to distance myself from the bad memories.
Firstly, not the Engineer’s fault: Staff had disconnected
the C24 and reconnected it carelessly, which caused several mispatches to C24 line inputs. I corrected the miswired
connections, but I’d bet that burned a few hours of good time. To remind you,
we were boosting the keyboard instrument output to a useable level, routing it
through C24 line inputs to achieve gain. Remember that if any C24 input is in
use, mic or line, then it is unavailable to the other, regardless of available patch points in the bay. So any C24 input module
can be either mic or line for a particular numbered input, say #12. So, 12 can
be either mic or line, but not both.
The other issue, Erich’s fault, is that stray inputs and audio
remnants from a previous session used as a template caused the drum mix to have
multiple inputs at a certain point. Normally I take the Engineer through the
initial session setup to ensure everything is correct and the folder hierarchy
is logical, residing in the proper location, and that the mixer is set up
appropriately. I did not do it this time and we wound up with the
aforementioned issues and a session which is intermingled with The Break
Evens’. Next session I will supervise this, but I think everyone should be
clear on this by now.
Osato and others, see my previous post regarding signal
flow.
This session is not yet split-out to a student version for
mixing. No one is allowed in my folder. Some sound files from Terry Haman’s
session have been deleted. I repeat, no one is allowed in my folder.
Next session, which I have just finalized, will be the most
complex yet this semester and I will post details shortly.
Photos to freshen the bad memories troubleshooting:
I liked last session and I also thought that we spent too much time fixing problems we did not know.
ReplyDeleteI'd like to be engineer next time, who wants to be second? or Vin will say who, since it would be a heavy session?
and
since we are not allowed in Vin's folder, can we mix some other sessions anyway?
I will be placing a copy of this session in the "student sessions for mixing" folder next time I am in CRC.
DeleteQuan just posted this. He included some clips from our session with him: http://youtu.be/dOlgcl0QzD0
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