Is This Thing On?
Apr. 4th, 2022 09:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
billroperThis evening's project was to actually record something in the latest revision to the studio configuration. As one might expect, there was entertainment, but nothing too terrible.
While Gretchen was prepared to come down and push buttons if needed, I figured it would be better to try to sort it out myself. So I took the freshly recharged iPad down to the studio and got to work.
The mics had been set yesterday, but I needed to power them up and let the tube mic warm up a bit before getting started. While I was waiting for that, I went back to the engineering booth and fired up the Cubase remote control app on the iPad.
Of course, it didn't work. The correct answer in this case was to RTFM, which I did and was promptly reminded that I needed to install some more software on the new computer in order for all of the parts to talk to each other. Two installs later and a tweak to the Cubase 12 setup and everything was ready for remote control.
I spent some time practicing the song as I listened in the engineering booth, checked the levels in the headphones by plugging them into the headphone amp to make sure I was happy with what I was hearing, and eventually wandered back over to the recording booth and plugged everything in.
Eight takes later (most of them quickly aborted for failure to start singing at the right time), I had tracks that were worth listening to. I did a quick mix just to check for anything obviously ugly and, finding nothing, forwarded them on via Dropbox.
This was also the first time that I've had a chance to work with the new mic that Dave Ifversen built for me. It was placed side-by-side with a much more expensive tube mic and -- as nearly as I could tell -- acquitted itself quite well on my vocals. Yay!
And thus, I have survived another learning experience. And not a bad one, in this case. :)
While Gretchen was prepared to come down and push buttons if needed, I figured it would be better to try to sort it out myself. So I took the freshly recharged iPad down to the studio and got to work.
The mics had been set yesterday, but I needed to power them up and let the tube mic warm up a bit before getting started. While I was waiting for that, I went back to the engineering booth and fired up the Cubase remote control app on the iPad.
Of course, it didn't work. The correct answer in this case was to RTFM, which I did and was promptly reminded that I needed to install some more software on the new computer in order for all of the parts to talk to each other. Two installs later and a tweak to the Cubase 12 setup and everything was ready for remote control.
I spent some time practicing the song as I listened in the engineering booth, checked the levels in the headphones by plugging them into the headphone amp to make sure I was happy with what I was hearing, and eventually wandered back over to the recording booth and plugged everything in.
Eight takes later (most of them quickly aborted for failure to start singing at the right time), I had tracks that were worth listening to. I did a quick mix just to check for anything obviously ugly and, finding nothing, forwarded them on via Dropbox.
This was also the first time that I've had a chance to work with the new mic that Dave Ifversen built for me. It was placed side-by-side with a much more expensive tube mic and -- as nearly as I could tell -- acquitted itself quite well on my vocals. Yay!
And thus, I have survived another learning experience. And not a bad one, in this case. :)