Yesterday at TBeats I actually got to press record since Brandy was working on her own song and there were no other engineers in the studio. It was pretty simple just pressing record and then play, but I did learn quite a few helpful keyboard shortcuts and other tricks that will help me save tons of time. For example, when recording a track that will most likely take more than one try to get right, you can simply change the recording mode to playlists and set it to loop and it will automatically keep every take you do for that section without having to create a new track every single time. Then you can listen to each take and drag individual parts that you liked most into the main mix or just use the take that sounded best. That is probably the most useful thing I have learned during my entire project. We also touched a bit on how analogue recording works. Later today we will have hopefully our last guitar session. If we are able to finish all of the guitar this week, then we will start on vocal harmonies, vocals, any extra synths or other sounds we might want, and finally mixing (which I’ve learned takes a ton of time). The attached picture is basically the remote control for protools. The red button at the bottom is the record enable button and the button next to it makes the track play so you can record onto it. This is located on the far left of the mixing console.
