Our group (3) began our demo recording process at RRR this Thursday, and I am proud of our final product which I have linked below to SoundCloud. It’s not seamless, but our time management and run-sheet organisation gave us a cohesive piece of work in the end.

My role in the recording was Producer. This involved keeping the segments tight and on schedule, especially the interviews and pre-recorded content. I managed this by tuning a timer on my phone and keeping an eye on the clock. I learnt in the studio that each mic session is shown on a timer on the panel. This saved me when I lost track of the time during an 7 minute interview, as the clock on the panel showed that the mics had been on for 5 minutes.

The brief dead air moment as we loaded the final recorded piece was the only hiccup that was quite noticeable to me. Corey and Jess managed to fill in this time well by repeating the station name and having a brief discussion about the topic. During this we managed to find that the fader was too low to hear the quiet opening of the recorded piece. There was a moment of panic but in actually it was a mere 8 seconds. When we go live we will be more familiar with the levels of the pre-record (if we have any). Hopefully all of our interviews and features will be live-to-air and we can avoid this. Finally, we have discerned that CDs are much easier to manage than an iTunes playlist. The songs stop at the end of play so we don’t manually have to pause the playlist. As a producer, I will take on the responsibility of sourcing our music onto a CD.

Overall I am happy with the professionalism of our group. Everyone was confident  going into the studio and with time and practice, we hope it will flow seamlessly.