Solo Performance Recording

Solo Performance Recording

The first thing we did to set up for darlene's performance was asking what darlene needed. Darlene needed an acoustic guitar, electric guitar, microphone and a backing track.
We did not only have to make the instruments work for the audience to hear in good quality from the speakers, we also had to make the instruments record in logic as if we were recording for a film backing track or album. So the first thing we did was set up the instruments so the audience could hear it from the speakers.
We set up the microphone on a microphone stand, we then got a lead to connect from the microphone  that then connected to the stage box. The stage box was already set up so all we had to do is connect the lead to the input we wanted. We simply connect the dynamic microphone for darlenes vocals in input 1. After that was finished we got the Acoustic guitar connected a lead from the guitar amp to the guitar so it came out through the amp to give a loud and good quality sound. After that we got the DI box connected a lead from the guitar that connected into the input of the guitar and another lead to connect from the output of the DI box to the stage box. After we connected a lead from the amp for the electric guitar to the electric guitar for the audience to hear and then we connected a microphone from the microphone to the stage box which we put in front of the electric guitar amp. The backing track was the last thing to do because it was the easiest thing because all we had to do is connect a jack lead from the mixing desk and the backing track darlene had to apply by either giving us her device so we could connect to the jack lead or she could give us a CD or a USB which we would connect to the laptop connected to the Mixing desk.
So after we set everything up we just had to sort things out on logic so we could record the performance.
First thing on logic we opened a new file and enableing the audio button before you start working on logic, you enable the audio button because we are recording in audio files. After that we made 4 tracks on logic:
1. Acoustic guitar
2. Electric guitar
3. Microphone
4. Backing track.
After that we set the inputs on each track so the acoustic guitar was for input 2 because we put it in input 2 on the stage box, the input on the microphone was input 1 because thats the input we put on the stage box, The electric guitar was input 3 because we put that input on the stage box. The stage box is connected to the mixing desk which is connected to the computer with logic on it.
Once we set up all the inputs the backing track input was already set up to input 15-16 because of how it has been since they set up the laptop and the jack lead to the mixing desk. The instruments had to be on mono output and the backing track had to be on stereo for us able to record it and hear it from logic. We also had to arm the track by clicking all the r buttons on the seperate tracks so we could record it all together all at once.
The last thing we had to do is set things up on the mixing desk for the acoustic guitar to work on logic we had to click the phantom power which is a button that has 48 and a drawing next to it we had to enable this because the DI box only works with phantom power. Then we had to turn up the gain on the mixing desk for logic to be able to hear it and record it on logic. And for the sound to go good and loud in the room we had to control the levels but that does not control anything on logic.
We pressed record and everything recorded fairly good. I think we came out with good results.