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Your First Recording

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Every Time You Use the Studio

  1. Baseline gain and compression. Set the gain and compression for each input channel to 12 on a clock to baseline everything
    1. You can then change these to suit your recording/voice
  2. Clear out all the slides. The board is a digital board so sometimes, you might see a slider set at a certain point but it might actually be set to a different value digitally. Clear the faders by pushing them all the way to the top and then back down to the level you’d like to see them at.
  3. Clear your power lines. Make sure your input cables are not running over power cables, USB, etc as you might get static or electronic hum on your recording.
  4. Monitor your mix.

Every Time You Leave the Studio

Please leave it better than you found it! If you changed settings to something that others aren’t likely to use (like effects), please set them back.

General Best Practices

  1. Do it solo first. Learn the board and do a few throw away recordings before you invite guests into the space. Learning on the spot can be frustrating.
  2. Monitor your audio! Highly recommend bringing in headphones that you can plug into the board and/or your computer if you are recording straight to your machine.

Recording to Computer

This will give you more control over each track as they come into your DAW/recording software, however, it introduces another variable into the recording mix, your computer!

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Recording Remote Guests

To record a remote guest, I highly recommend using a tool like Zencastr or Riverside.fm. You will connect the L12 to your computer as usual and use that as audio input in the recording app of your choice. You can also use Zoom but it is not really designed for that.

A Double Ender

If you don’t want to use Zencastr or Riverside, you can also record locally on your end and have the guest record locally on their end. They will then send you the file. The benefit of this is that they will have a local file that is not distorted by recording over the internet. Tools like Zencastr do this for you.