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Using input sheets

Using input sheets

- [Instructor] This advice seems so obvious, yet it took me years to start working this way and to keep the materials at hand. It's simply using an input sheet to keep track of how everything in the studio is routed for a tracking session. The sheets I use start with the Source, which is where the sound is coming from, vocal, kick drum, you get what I'm saying. Then we have Mic. This is obvious, but it could also be a direct box or such, whatever the sound is being input through. Then we have Tie Line. In our studio, there are panels that feed the patch bay for routing. Maybe you have a snake box that sends signals from another room. Maybe you plug and unplug your gear from the back of a rack. The input sheet will help you follow that signal. Next is Preamp. If you only use a console, it's the console channel. Then it's any gear that is inserted into the signal path before tracking. Equalizer, compressor, those are…

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