The recording process started well as we went to the studio 4 hours before we needed to to go through clips and check they were in the right hour, it also allowed us to check over basic things such as whether there was a headphone feed etc. After we had done everything we then tried to get a signal into the Mac so that we could record the programme, however this proved near impossible and despite our best efforts we couldn’t get the desk to work, meaning that we had wasted two hours of our contributor’s time already without anything even being done. After us getting hold of a fellow audio production student we ended up moving to the multitrack studio instead as we had someone with us who knew how to use it.
Once we were in here and had fixed the initial problems with the sample rate we were fine with the rest of the recording process, with clips being played out via the RadioLogik DJ software. The only issues we did have was that there was a lot of spill between microphones due to the nature of it being a panel show where people sit next to each other, the other issue was level as at times people did not all talk together then at others everyone would start talking meaning that I had to ride the faders which did cause problems as at times I was very slow to react. In hindsight, I also should have told people how to sit with microphones in front of them as Jack and Grace had never been in that type of environment before meaning that there was a lot of popping due to us not telling them how to reduce this.
Overall though the recording was successful it did take longer than we had expected due to us having to move studios and give up on fixing the studio we had intended to use.
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