Senior Project, Blog Post 4: Report on Progress

For all of these recordings I chose two specific microphones; the Electro-Voice RE20 and Shure SM7B. I chose these because out of all studio E, these microphones were best known for podcast microphones. If we had more than just one of each, I would’ve preferred to use the RE20 for both me and the speaker, instead it currently being me using the RE20 and the interviewee using the SM7B.

For my pre-amp I wanted a ‘vanilla’ sound, so I chose the Focustrite channel pre-amps.

I used the production room of studio E to record the podcast because it was pretty good “dead” space, and there was room to comfortably sit, instead of us using Studio A’s production room, or using any of the live rooms, which would’ve created too much reverb for a podcast.

The ProTools set-up was pretty simple, I only had two mono tracks for the microphone inputs, and then a master fader track.