Orientation to the Project.

Jesse and I are going to work together

The band we are recording is a 5 piece with 2 guitars.

Both guitars are going to need to be isolated because they get their tone with the amps.

I think we can direct box the bass, I need to listen how it sounds without the amp to see if it'll come out clean through a direct box.

We're going to need to use 8 mics on the drums:

2 overheads, 1 on the floor tom, 1 on mounted tom, 2 on snare, 1 on bass drum, and 1 on the high hat.

We tune our instruments to drop C and we’re going to have one song tuned standard, so we need to use compressors that will balance out the sound and not take out too much of the lower frequencies. I really have no knowledge of which ones to use, so we’ll have to work that out.

I also have no clue as to how to make the headphone mix work, but that shouldn’t be too hard.

For post production, I know we’ll have to have a compressor and some reverb on the voice. We’re going to record gang vocals as well, so we’re going to reverb that too.

I’m going to try a couple different things for the guitars. I am going to use different compressors in protools on each one and see if it works. The bass I’m going to use an equalizer to add more highs to the final mix. I’m not sure how the drums will sound so I’ll cross that bridge when I come to it.

I’m going to try to work with my TCOM 350 class to produce the final DVD for this. So it should be really awesome. Eventually we’re just going to make a bunch of the DVD’s and hand them out at a show when I quit the band.