The piece of music we recorded was a project brought up by a friend’s family member and their friend who are very involved in music and wanted a small recording session. The musicians came after college hours to the studio, where we had already planned where certain instrumentation was going in terms of a visual floor plan so that cables weren’t running in a disorderly manner – and where each input was going when coming to setting gains at different Pre-amps (D.A.V Electronics Pre-amps). This also made for an easy take-down during the end of the session, as the cables weren't confusing as to what was where and what microphone goes back into what box. 

 

When coming to what tracks should be where, we made sure all the Synth clips were fitted together first in the session so we never had any guitar tracks mixed in with any synth effects. We wanted to make sure everything was organized in some form – especially when we had multiple outputs from the one synth and extra mixer. And when looking at the guitar recording, we had a direct output from the Behringer D.I. Box as well as a microphone pointed at the edge of the cone of the amp, providing a somewhat natural sound without being far too direct.

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We used an AKG C3000 as a room microphone as we felt it would be more than a good choice for capturing the reverb from the guitar in the room – as the previous tracks we had for the guitar both are a very direct sound (D.I and Amp microphone – SM57 due to robustness and general recording). It felt only right to capture some of the reverberant space around the musician.

 

When it came to mixing the track there didn't seem to be a lot needed to be added in terms of the synth tracks apart from additional reverb or delay to create an effect over the whole track. A little EQ was needed on the guitar recording as the synth chords seemed to drown the guitar out without being too loud. I used a 7-band EQ to boost some mid-frequencies that gave the guitar more definition in the mix - I did so at a suitable level on headphones within classroom at college – checking the sound of the whole track over a different level once I felt it was nearly done enough. I then bounced the track to a WAV file on a USB drive to swap over to an edit suite to test the final mix in a different environment, continuing to then test on speakers and cheap headphones to ensure the track sounds good on different mediums before then uploading to soundcloud.