Week 3 - AA1

Studio 2 is where I was supposed to get acquainted with the process of recording, face the possible problems and eventually resolve them.
In the first session, I couldn’t really do anything because Protools (the software by which I had to record) kept giving me an error message of not having an MBox attached to the computer. In the following day, I figured out that there was no need for an MBox at all.
The second session of mine went on without a Protools at all. The software was not available but I managed to figure out the procedure of working with the facilities in future.
After following the correct order of turning the machines on, (The main power, then the effects, then the mixer, and the monitors) I used an SM57 microphone to record and because I was alone, I decided to use the patch bay instead of the dead room.
Having so many difficulties getting any sound out of the mixer, I eventually went to the internet and read the manual of the Mackie onyx 1640 mixer and as a result figured out what to do.
I sent the microphone to the Insert 1 channel on the patch bay at first, and I needed to assign the channel 1 to be active on the mixer. Pressing both “Main Mix” button next to channel 1’s fader and the main “Main Mix” button of the mixer, I could get the sound of the microphone. Since Protools was down, I just tried to do more with the patch bay and finally send all the signals to any of the inputs of channels of Protools. I could send the microphone signal to the equalizer, then the compressor, and then to any of Protools’ inserts to record.

.Mackie Onyx 1640