This week we began the tracking phase for our sound-a-like project “Do I Wanna Know” by Arctic Monkeys. Every group member assigned a role for our drum tracking session, which kicked off our all mighty journey. I was assigned the role of ‘runner’, this included not much during our session as everything was quick and painless although there were a few points that my role had to come into practice. Traditionally the runner is the one responsible for doing all the crap jobs that no one else wants to do, getting coffee, water making sure everyone is comfortable fixing up mic stands that have fallen over, all the fun stuff. So much technical aspects are attributed to this glorious job.
One example that comes to mind when reflecting on my job during the drum tracking session, would have to be when sound checking. The mic placement on the snare wasn’t quite right, but fear not I was there to save the day, moving it a little bit more towards the centre of the snare head and bang everyone was happy.
Our original plan was to mic the entire drum kit with SM57’s which everyone in the room was extremely sceptical about from the get-go, but without any hesitation, we soldiered on into what we inevitably knew would be true; that the sound would be pretty shit. Sure enough, it was, but with my bull whip-like fast twitch muscle fibres I reached into the mic case and grabbed out our next best option for the bass drum, the AKG D112. Everyone was then happy with the sound that was coming out of the speakers.
Next time I possibly could consider offering the musician something to drink, but I don’t believe this would have influenced the outcome of the session in too drastic a way so none the less in the end.
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