J. Anthony Allen teaches audio recording in Ableton Live 10, covering hardware setup, microphone placement, room treatment, and Ableton's recording workflow. He shows how to record multitrack takes and overdub in Session or Arrangement View, arguing that professional recordings are possible in a bedroom with the right gear and discipline.
All right, here we go into audio recording. In this section, I'm going to start by getting us a new set. Let's start from scratch, shall we? We don't need to save that. In this section we're going to talk about a couple different things. We're going to talk about the hardware we need to do audio recording well, and that includes microphones. We're going to talk about microphone placement and how all that works, how you should have live set up to do recording well, multi tracking. And we'll be talking about recording in session view and arrangement view, the two different sides of it, doing multi tracking, overdubbing, all that stuff in, in this section. Now, one quick thing I want to point out before we go any farther is kind of my little philosophy on recording. It was true that for much of history, if you wanted to do professional audio recording, you had to spend time renting a big recording studio. And you've all seen these pictures of, you know, the classic big recording studio setup. But you can do that same recording, that same quality of recording at home in your bedroom with a laptop. Now, tools like live have made it very possible to do that. The only big difference is that it's harder to record big ensembles. And what I mean is like a four piece band all at once. It's harder. It's hard to do that without one of those big studios. But it's not impossible by any means. It's just a matter of space and acoustics, really. But if you're recording one instrument at a time, and definitely if you're producing electronic music and want to add, you know, two or three elements that are acoustic and you want to record them, you can get totally professional recording sound in just by working in your bedroom in live. And in order to do that, you need to know the things I'm about to tell you. So let's dive in, shall we? Let's go into our hardware needs. So some things we need to know about the hardware of recording.
