Berklee College of Music - OMPRD 210

For your final assignment this week, you will set up for a professional session in your studio on the DAW platform of your choice. You are doing a multi-track recording and mix session. The instruments are as follows:

1. Drums (kick, snare, hi-hat, hi tom, floor tom, ride, crash)
2. Electric bass (DI)
3. Electric guitar (both amp and DI)
4. Stereo piano
5. Scratch vocal

I would like to compress the kick and snare in series. I would also like to route the kick, snare, and toms, to a stereo group and compress the drum group in parallel. I would like to add a plate reverb to the drums, a hall reverb to the piano, and I would also like to be ready to record the rough mix immediately back into the DAW for future reference. Finally, I would like to create two different stereo cue mixes: one for the drummer and one for the rest of the band. You will also send a click track to both cue mixes.

Answer:

Explanations

WORK FLOW (See Workflow Screenshot)

1st step

 In here I created empty mono track for each instrument in DRUMS, ELECTRIC BASS, ELECTRIC GUITARS, a stereo track for STEREO PIANO, and a mono track for SCRATCH VOCALS

DRUMS (kick, snare, hi-hat, hi tom, floor tom, ride, crash)

ELECTRIC BASS ( Electric Bass DI)

ELECTRIC GUITAR (Electric Guitar Amp, Electric Guitar DI)

STEREO PIANO (Stereo Piano)

SRATCH VOCALS (Scratch Vocals)

2nd step

I created an FX Channel (KickSnare Series Comp) with 2 Compressors (Compressor, Compressor 60..) in the insert for serial compression and send the kick and snare for the serial compression.

3rd Step

I created a stereo group channel (Parallel Comp), put a compressor (Compressor) in the insert and send the kick, snare, and toms  to the track

4th Step

I created  another FX Channel (Plate Reverb) and put a plate reverb (LexPlate)  in the insert and send kick, snare, hi-hat, hi tom, floor tom, ride, crash

5th Step

I create a FX Channel (Hall Reverb), put a hall reverb (Lexhall) in the insert and send the Stereo Piano

CUE MIX

1 created 2 cue mix (Drummer) and (Band Mix) in the control room and insert the cues for all the tracks (See Cue Mix Screenshot)

In order to ready to record the rough mix immediately back into the DAW for future reference you need to save the session as a template. Cubase Pro 10.

In Cubase, we dont need to create a click track because it have a transport bottom where you can adjust the tempo of the metronome and turn on the click. Unlike in Protools that you need to create a click track.

SIGNAL FLOW

• Violet color lines are the signal coming from individual instruments to the main monitor
• Black color lines are the signal coming from kick and snare to the series of compressor, to the main monitor
• Red color lines are the signal coming from the kick, snare, and toms to parallel compression, the to the main monitor
• Blue color lines are the signal coming from the drum group to the plate reverb, to the main monitor
• Grey color line are the signal from stereo piano to the hall reverb, to the main monitor
• Light black color line are the cue mixes coming from the main monitor.

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