The Technical Aspect of Recording

It has come to my attention that people reading my blog may or may not understand what I do. So I am going to attempt to explain what I do. In Proctor's studio we use Protools as our base recording software. Protools is the Industry standard recording software and is used or can be found in any major professional recording studio. Everything I do in the studio that has to do with recording anything starts with Protools.

While recording

There are many things that could go wrong while recording. The most common things that go wrong in a recording session would be clipping/levels low/performer cant hear producer/ performer cant hear the beat ect...(all of these errors can be flipped as well). The errors that I mentioned isnt even a half of a quater of all of the possibilities that could go wrong. As you can imagine working in the studio could be a technical nightmare.

Clipping- is when a vocal signal is to hot or to strong. Clipping is prevented by setting the performers levels before he or she records.

All of the other common problems are real life technical issues that often times have to do with broken wires ect. Those problems are above my head. New problems are faced day to day in the studio. When faced with a technical difficulty you have 2 options work around it or fix it. often times I tend to work around it. I know a lot about the studios equipment but some how every now and again I come across a problem that stumbles me. Its a humbling experience. Even if you do everything correctly something can go wrong at any given moment.