By working your way through Part 1, you should have acquired a bedrock of essential technical skills:
■ Connecting line-level sources and instrument pickups to your recording system’s inputs.
■ Line-checking and troubleshooting your studio rig for recording purposes.
■ Managing gain controls appropriately throughout the recording and monitoring chain, and scotching all the most common signal-degradation problems.
■ Setting up suitable monitoring and communications equipment, and getting the best out of a DAW’s software monitoring.
■ Using punch-ins, comping, and layering to prepare for mixdown.
■ Documenting all aspects of the session.
Furthermore, you’ll have been developing those intangible characteristics ...
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