Recording Session Evaluation Drums 28/04/14

How Did The Group Work Together?

I think that everybody that was taking an active role in the session did so with the professionalism that would be expected from if that was their full time job. Everybody arrived on time and any problems that we faced were dealt with quickly and professionally. 

Our set up for the Drum recording

 

How Did The Persons Involved In The Session Fulfill Their Role?

Engineer (Mat Quinn) - Mat performed his role as i suspected he would, with professionalism and enthusiasm, he set up a pro tools session with all the tracks that i would need for recording drums, he set up all the i/o settings correctly and set the gains for each individual drums and overheads correctly and safely, he also responded extremely well when the pro tools session kept crashing (about 6 times). After the first time it crashed he decided to save every time we recorded a large chunk of audio.

Assistants (Alex Dudley and Dan Burrows)- Alex and Dan performed their roles extremely well, they dealt with all the setting up and packing away of equipment with efficiency and safety. Before we started setting the drum kit up, someone who had been using the live room before us had not packed away the equipment they were using so Dan and Alex had to pack all that away and then set up the drum kit to my preferred positioning, then set up all the microphones on the drum kit and the overheads with all the XLR cables safely patched into the patch bay, after we had recorded the drums, they packed away the same as they set up the microphones with safety and efficiency, then set up and packed away the SE 2200 microphone for some vocal recording with a pop filter.  

Producer/Performer (Alex Ross) - I was both performer and producer for my session as I was playing the drums and I recorded some dialogue for my track. I believe that i performed my roles very well as i managed to take one take for the two ideas that I had, but we unfortunately lost the second idea because of pro tools crashing after we had recorded it but as the producer I thought that the first idea was the best one. As the performer I came prepared with all the correct equipment such as my drum sticks, backing track and my own cymbal from home that I was going to use in the recording. Vocal recording did not take too long and did not require much producing because we all pitched in ideas which I believe is the sign of a good team. 

Our Tracking For the Drums

Overall how did you feel the session went?

Overall I believe that the session was success as we managed to get my drums recorded and dialogue for our tracks and managed to do so safely, efficiently and professionally and managed to overcome any problems that arose during the session and we had everything finished and packed away half an hour before we were scheduled to finish. 

Session Successful