7 Studio recording
Now that you have moved into the studio have a look around and see what is different from location.
You will notice two things. One is that you are in a controlled environment, but with a lot more equipment. Certainly a larger, more complicated, mixer than you perhaps had on location. Probably some extra equipment called ‘a compressor’, ‘a gate’ or a ‘reverberation unit’, which will be explained later.
There seem to be a lot more people, all with more complicated equipment (that’s their problem). You probably can’t see, or hear, the performance directly and can’t work out how to get the microphone leads through the walls and upstairs.
The second is that here is a totally different way of working. The director seems to ...
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