Wednesday, December 14, 2005

End of Day 1

So Tripwire rolled up to the music room at 10ish, and set out for a good old practice, after not having practiced for months. Just was designed to make sure we all knew the basic structure of the songs etc, as we will wing it when we hit the studio.
Lunchtime came, so it was off to Do-duck-in for an assortion of knots and pizza. We continued for a while before deciding what exactly we were going to use for our studio.
We decided on using the graphics room for our studio, and the sound "studio" as the control room - because conveniently it has a window looking into the graphics room. Unfortunately though, no cable ducts exist. So, it was a case of running the snake out the door of the graphics room, up the corridor, and into the control room via the computer room. A tight fit but just made it. However it did mean we have to leave 3 doors open that would definantly be nice closed.

So the snake was run, then was onto miking the kit. We only have one mic that is really appropriate for a drumkit, put that straight onto the snare. Using a condenser mic on the kick (simply because it sounded better than a vocal mic) and an assortion of cheap brandless microphones for the rest - with a total of 8 mics. Got them all running through the mixer... Ouch what a big job it will be to get it sounding good. But thankfully we can do 8 mic tracks straight to the computer, so no need for mixdowns yet. Also, the settings on the desk don't at all effect the signal put through to the computer, so we can have a totally independant mix on the desk for monitors etc.

Then there was the big issue... we needed a firewire card - and needed it now. There was one in a computer that is usually in that room, but the computer was missing, and found it was locked away in Mr Rowlands' office, because it is broken, while he is away on holiday in Australia. So I popped down to work to grab a firewire card from there- but unfortunately it was a useless Canopus EZDV card which only allows video capture through it. So will try and track down a firewire card, or if the worst comes to the worst, use a useless Celeron laptop that I had borrowed from work.

So we mucked around rearranging and setting up and practicing a little. And that was the end of day 1.

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