Orientation day last week on Saturday...and first day on Monday this week.

Wednesday January 23, 2008
8:45pm

I had orientation last week on Saturday and it went great!

I did a tour of each studio with a group of 4 other guys. First we went into Studio C which has an API 24-track console. Danny is playing around with a track that a student band had recorded some time before that. So we listened to him solo certain portions of the song (strings, acoustic guitar, vocals, etc.) and EQ it.



I then moved on to Studio A which has a NEVE VR-60 Console with Flying Faders and Total Recall

Here's a picture of Shannon doing his thing with a track he had pulled and had been working with from tape that morning.

We then went into Studio D which is the mastering, or ProTools studio. That's where all the mastering is and some MIDI- Audio production is done.

One nifty thing about the console inside studio D is that it, similar to studio A's NEVE console, has fader automation (or flying faders)

This is a little video of what the engineers like to call "Vegas mode". It is mainly for testing lights to make sure there aren't any lights out, and they really don't know of any other purpose for that button, than a really showy display of lights and fader movement. Here's the video...

We continued our tour on to Studio B which has an SSL 4048E/G Console with Total Recall. This studio is also similar to Studio A in that they both have Total Recall. Total Recall is a nifty little feature where you can set all the settings exactly as you want, and then save that to a disk, and take it to another studio that has a board with total recall, and it will set their board exactly as you had it on the board at the originating studio. It's really cool!



After studio B we went on to the MIDI-Lab where Larry works. He'll be teaching me the Audio Production Techniques class (APT) where I will learn how to sequence and construct my own music with a synthesizer and a number of different external sound engines. It's way cool. I'm really excited for that class. Anyway here's another couple pictures of the orientation day. (these are the last couple pictures I took during the orientation day- they're in the MIDI lab)




Anyway, I've got a lot of reading to do before my first class of the Career Development Program tomorrow. So I'll update again as soon as I can! I hope this gives you all a little taste of the environment I'll be in for the next 10 months! I love you all!