Who it is for
Producer Pete
Producer. Records and produces bands in his own loft studio.
Pete’s studio is a brick loft: the desk and the speakers on one side of the glass, the live room on the other. Bands come in with songs; they leave with a session that is ready to mix. Everything between the first take and the hand-over is his.
A day with Pete
Tracking the band
The band plays behind the glass. Pete has TrackScope on every track he cares about, and one window shows all of them together — with the names already set in Logic Pro, and a colour of its own for each track. The selected track is in front; the rest are drawn behind it.
Two mics on the amp
A close mic and a second one further back, recorded as one stereo track. TrackScope’s phase view has a correlation meter for each track he is watching: green means the two sides of the track agree. He moves the second mic until it reads green, then checks the track in mono and listens before he moves on.
The vocal take
The singer goes in. Pete watches her track in front of the band’s, in the spectrum, take after take.
Placing the mix
TrackSpace draws the session as a room in its own window beside Logic Pro. Each track becomes an object on a stage — left and right from Logic Pro’s pan combined with the balance it measures in the sound, brightness measured and depth estimated from the sound itself. The drum kit is one object, not nine: grouping collapses the channels into the instrument you hear. Pete freezes the picture on the chorus and sees what is crowding the middle.
The hand-over
The session goes to Master Max on a drive. Max will open it in SessionMap and see how it is built before he touches a fader.
Master Max →