Recording Session Evaluation Mat Quinn, Acoustic Guitar

I took part in Mat Quinns's second recording session as a studio assistant along with Dan Burrows, our job was to make sure that the microphones were set up correctly and safely as well as do anything the engineer and performer told us to do. The first thing we had to do was to move the acoustic drum kit to the side of the studio so that we could get to the patch bay safely and be able to set up the microphone stands without any drums getting in the way. When we had safely moved the drum kit, we started to set up the microphone stands and getting the microphones in the correct position for the best sound possible, we used 2 SM57 microphones for the guitar recording and we also set up a microphone so that Mat could talk back to the engineer, we used a Wharfedale microphone for that. We did not encounter any problems during the setting up process but when as the Engineer was setting the levels, he noticed that one of the microphones was very quiet so we changed one of the XLR's, and that was the only problem from an Assistants point of view.