First Day

Today was the first day in the studio. I was extremely excited but not completely prepared for all the work that was about to be laid in front of me. I met my mentor, Robert McClure, and he began to show me around the studio. Our first stop was the mixing room, a sound proof room containing a huge mixing board and a wide range of equipment. I found the mixing board to be by far the most impressive piece of equipment in the studio. It contained 32 track sliders and dozens of features such as gain, phantom power, reverb and many buttons that I could not identify. Next we went out into the main recording room. There were three stations set up, a booth for the drums, a booth for the vocals and finally a guitar or keyboard booth.A band was going to arrive in 30 minutes and Robert began to show me how to set up for a recording session. This was a lot of work! Among other things, I was given the task of labeling each track slider, plugging in every mike and piecing together the drums to the bands preset likings. He told me that having the studio set up in advance was one of the main responsibilities.I spent the rest of the session primarily as a shadow to Robert. He would give me little task along the way and explain everything he was doing so that eventually I could implement it on my own.