This week we decided to have an email tutorial. This was because Joe and I had scheduled this as a recording day.

The recording process hit a few bumps early on as due to a hardware malfunction the studio was down for a number of hours. We were told the studio would be up and running so we continued to set up equipment.

We discussed previously what we thought would work best for the recording process. As we wanted to record a large number of songs in a short space of time we opted for a semi-live approach. We accomplished this by having all the musicians in separate rooms but all playing at once. This gave us a very quick way of recording a large amount of material to a high quality.

Our main drawback to this method was due to the technical problems. The band had arrived early and because of this, we had to continuously send them away. We felt this left an unprofessional feel around the session which was unavoidable. The first band was called The Doc’s. They had been recorded at the university before and had a bad experience then. We made it our aim to try and be different.

Once we started the recording session it went really well. Even though we couldn’t play the material back we were happy with how everything sounded during the session.

Our hope of this session was to have everything set up ready so the bands could turn up and record. This would make it easier on us and on them creating a professional vibe over the project.

Overall The Doc’s were very accommodating with all the issues and we left with surprisingly high-quality recordings considering the circumstances.

The Doc’s Sample Mix – Song 2