Dan B's session

So monday i helped out as an assistant for Dan Burrow's session. Dan's plan was to record piano with two overheads to capture ambience of the room. We managed to get everything setup rather quickly but we had a few problems. The first problem was that the studio was still setup from the last time, we had to move the drum kit and also move some mic stands and put away other equipment. and microphones.  We also had to change the mics we were using for the over heads. We were originally going to use 2 AKG C1000's but we couldn't find one of the clips for the mic stands. This was such a big of an issue that we had to change what microphone we were going to use in order to actually get the ambience recorded. We ended up using the SE 1A's for the overheads. This was quickly set up but we must of spent around 15 minuets trying to resolve the issue.  Another issue we had was the I/O set up. We had confused each other to what was being plugged in where but that only took a minuet or two to clear up.

I think we all worked very well together and we got everything set up and recorded to Dan's quality. It took us a total of about an hour and a half. It took us 45 minuets to set up and then then 30 minuets to record everything because it was only small segments that Dan wanted to record. We then spent around 15 minuets packing everything away because we didn't want to be hypocrites. Overall the session was very fast and we all worked together helping each other where we needed. Alex did a good job of being the engineer for the session, he was very polite to Dan when he was performing and didn't mess anything up. Mat was the other assistant and we worked together to get everything set up fast and when we encountered a problem we would consult Dan who was the producer and performer this session for his advice on the problem. Dan did a very good job when it came to performing and he was also critiquing his own playing ability when it came to being the producer of the session which is always good to see.