This week when Brooks and I came in, we met a man in the lobby named Carlos who rents out his own office with the studio. He had just started using a new software called FL Studio which both Brooks and I are familiar with. We worked with him for a little bit of time to help him find where all of the essential tools were and explain the layout and workflow of the program. We were then all invited to sit in on an audio engineering class being taught to University students at the studio so we decided to join. The class was mostly focused on setting up microphones in a professional studio. The instructor walked us through the differences between many of the industry standard microphones and explained what each one is often used for. To demonstrate the differences he had set up about five different microphones and showed us the difference in the waveforms that we recorded using all of the different mics. For example one of the demonstrations was to show which kind of microphone was best for recording a snare. I volunteered to help by going into the recording booth and playing the snare drum while he recorded it through all of the mics. He then explained which mics he thought would perform better and compared his predictions of how he thought they would sound with how they actually sounded. It was a really cool experience for both Brooks and me. We were very lucky to be able to attend the class as it was taught by an actual professional sound engineer.
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