Section outline


    • 201 is a recording and post-production studio with a separate control room and vocal booth. It has a stereo Genelec monitoring system, a selection of outboard equipment including a variety of microphone preamps, and a Nord master keyboard.



    • Timestamps:

      00:00 - Welcome
      00:22 - Powering on
      00:45 - Connecting a laptop or the studio computer
      01:43 - Using the Nord keyboard
      02:23 - Using the RME audio interface
      03:07 - Using the monitor controller - getting audio into the loudspeakers
      03:49 - Using the monitor controller - connecting headphones
      05:45 - Using the monitor controller - building separate cue mixes
      06:29 - Using the monitor controller - connecting headphones to the tielines
      06:30 - Using the monitor controller - connecting headphones within the control room
      06:41 - Using the monitor controller - the talkback mic
      07:11 - Recording audio - overview
      07:39 - Recording audio - with the booth tielines
      09:30 - Recording audio - with the control room tielines
      10:14 - Recording audio - with the built-in preamps on the RME
      10:33 - Recording audio - a note on ventilation
      10:58 - Using the outboard equipment
      11:46 - Powering off

    • 201 Equipment:

      Microphones
      • 1x Neumann U87 Ai
      • 1x Shure SM7B
      • 2x Sony C80
      • 1x Warm Audio WA-8000

      Microphone Preamplifiers:
      • 1x D.A.V. Broadhurst Gardens No. 1 (2-ch)
      • 1x Focusrite ISA Two (2-ch)
      • 1x Heritage Audio Britstrip (1-ch)
      • 1x Retro Instruments 500Pre (1-ch)

      Microphone Utilities:
      • 1x Cloud Microphones Cloud Lifter
      • 1x Radial JS-3 (Mic. Splitter)

      Monitoring
      • 2x Genelec 8351

      Signal Processors and Effects
      Compressors and Limiters
      • 2x IGS Audio 576 Blue Stripe
      • 1x IGS Audio One LA
      • 1x SSL The Bus+
      EQs
      • 1x SSL Ultraviolet
      • 2x SSL 611
      Other
      • 1x Drawmer DS-101 (Noise gate)
      • 1x SPL De-Esser MK2

      Keyboards
      • 1x Nord Stage 2 EX HA88
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