#Musicol internship recording audio audioengineer ribbonmicrophones musicsound drums tracking

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Last week I had the fantastic opportunity to help out Musicol’s head engineer Kieth with a recording session. During this recording session I had the opportunity to help change out some microphones, one of these microphones was the guitar mic that was causing some distortion on the tracks. Once that was changed out Kieth took the time to help teach me the new soundboard at the studio. The new soundboard is a Sony MXP 3000 which is running smoothly and a good console to use. One of the newer techniques that I learned at this session was an iteration the Glyn John’s technique. For this technique we used two ribbon microphones as overheads. Once this was done we drove the gain on the console to get a saturated sound on the drum tracks. Thankfully, we were able to get the full effect of this on the track because of the lack of cymbals on the kit. I found my first session back at Musicol to be a great learning experience for me as an audio engineer.