Recording Jam session

Date of Jam: 18/11/09
Time: 12:30-15:00

Duration: 4 hrs

Setting up Drums

• I first began by miking up the drums. I used 7 microphones in total, 2 overheads, snare batter head, 3 tom heads and kick drum.

• I loaded up a drum recording template I created previously with all of its appropriate fx and routing set up to save time (having needed to leave the same day for classes).

• I set uniform gain by asking my friend to play drums and I adjusted the trim/gain to make sure the drum signal doesn't go into digital clipping.

Setting up Guitar

Because this was a jam session being performed live, miking up the guitar cab was going to be unnecessary difficult to control spill from the drums so I decided to record directly using the direct outs from the amp head (via simulated output) straight into the line input of the soundcard.
I asked my friend to play the guitar whilst I adjusted the level.





Recording/Bouncing the Jam

When all the levels were adjusted correctly I hit the record button. We did several takes to begin with and tweaked & fine tuned the trim controls. We practiced between takes and when we had any new ideas I made sure we captured it.
We did numerous takes (of varying lengths) and once we were happy we captured most of our ideas down, I went about bouncing the tracks so my friend can take them away with him and listen back to them for further ideas.