From the course: Music Production Secrets: Larry Crane on Recording
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Understanding input signal path - Pro Tools Tutorial
From the course: Music Production Secrets: Larry Crane on Recording
Understanding input signal path
The basics of audio recording starts with signal flow. Getting the signal from the mics or the input sources to the recording device is the first stage of recording anything. Now here at my studio, Jackpot Recording, we've got a huge patch bay, almost a 1,000 points. We have signals coming in from the microphones, we have inputs to the console, inputs to Protools, microphone preamps, equalizers, compressors, you name it. All those things show up on the patch bay and we patch things in to each other from one to one to one to one. But let's break that down to something simple. This thing scares people, this doesn't. Now you know what a microphone is. You put it in front of musicians, you put it in front of instruments, you put it in front of singers, everybody that's making sound in a room is probably recorded with a microphone. The output of a microphone has a really low voltage, a low AC voltage, and that signal can go down the mic cable for a ways. But it has to be turned into a…
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