I arrived at the studio this morning at 9:00 am to once again play the role of studio assistant. We went to mic up the drum kit but suddenly realised that the snare drum was gone. Luckily there was a different one in the control room which we borrowed. Truth be told we all thought it sounded better than the one we normally use so it was a fortunate inconvenience.
EDIT: I have been informed that the snare drum we found WAS in fact the snare drum we normally used so I don't know what's going on with that.
We set up all the microphones on the drum kit and Dan A even found both the SM58's that have been missing for ever.
Alex D couldn't find his memory stick but then Alex R just randomly found it in Alex D's bag. We went to the LRC in order to download a backing track from our Google Drive folder, but that took about 10 minutes thanks to the computers being slow. When we got back downstairs we set the levels with no trouble.
In total we took three takes and all of them were very good. We took three just in for variety and because we had plenty of time. Surprisingly Pro Tools never even crashed once! The session had a bit of a manic start but in the end it turned out very well. Below is a video of the studio during a take recording.
