Sunday studio day

Woke up at 10 this morning to pack my laptop, usb etc. eat a quick breakfast and get ready to the studio.
Unlike last time I was prepared for the studio session today, I had my list of what I needed, goals for the day, what I was gonna do first and most importantly I had enough time!

First I went to the tech hatch to get some mics then I set them up while Tom got the drums ready. Everything went pretty smooth until I encountered a small problem in logic which I fixed itself after a couple of minutes.

We recorded for about two hours and it went very well! After the session I saved the project to my usb and collected the mics, rolled the cables together and brought them back to the tech hatch.

It was a very rewarding experience because for some reason I thought that we wouldn't be able to make everything work but it did and I was quite happy about that.

The whole point of the studio session was to record a lot of fills and chops for a sample library and the second reason was to record drums on top of a song that I made.

Unfortunately the timing wasnt always on point and the sound of the drums isnt quite right for the track so I probably wont be able to use it.

But I recorded a lot of awesome fills and chops which I'm definitely going to use!

I guess what I will do is record the drums I want for the track again on e-drums and then quantize everything properly and use samples that fit. The pure midi data will give me a lot more flexibility.

Anyway, great session, had lots of fun and eventhough I'm a bit dissapointed, that I can't use all of the drums I feel that I learned some new things and I try to see this as a trial and error learning experience.

(I made some videos but I'm having trouble uploading them :( this is the only other picture I have unfortunately, for reference me amd Tom were in the PRSF studio and Room 1)

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