Week 3 - AA - QuickStart

Apologies for this one being late, but I had a fairly hard weekend, with a highschool friend passing away in a car accident. It's going to be hard to come to terms with, but I think I'm back on track now.

This week was based around being able to start up and shut down Studio 2. Laura and I did it together, and actually managed to complete a task without too many hassles, making a nice change. We booked in, and turned everything on, going by the DORA anagram. We almost thought that was everything until Freddie came and rescued us from humiliation. So we set everything up again and attempted to get a signal through ProTools. We put the mic in the dead room and picked up an awful radio station. Getting a signal through to the mixer proved to be no problem, once we'd worked out that I'd pressed the wrong button for Main Mix, quite foolishly. It was all going well, and we thought we'd managed to get through a whole exercise without needing outside help. But it wasn't to be. As much as we tried, we couldnt get the signal from the dead room microphone through to the computer, or in fact to ProTools. It was in the mixer, but didn't seem to be getting any further.

In the end, despite us trying everything we could think of on the mixer, we had to get Peter in to see if he could fix it. Apparently, there was something wrong on the input. It was on +4 dBu instead of -10dBV. So once that was fixed up we were set. The computer was picking up the signal and everything worked. I'm almost completely sure I could work it out again. As long as the basic setup is already done properly.