Control Room and Recording Studio

The Assistant Director of Recording Services at Oberlin Conservatory teaches our perennially popular 'Introduction to Recording Techniques' course in TIMARA's Control Room and Recording Studio. The Control Room is outfitted with a Mac Pro cylinder, state-of-the-art Grace Preamps, a hearback system, a stereo pair of Oceanway H4 monitors, a DynAudio BM5A 5.1 monitoring station, and an ASP8024 board. Students frequently use the space for their own creative work or to record fellow student groups. The recording studio often plays double duty as a space where visiting artists share their work with our majors.

Zero Setting for the Control Room

At the end of EVERY session, please reserve 5 to 10 minutes to pick up after yourself and ready the studio for the next reservation:

Back up your work on your own external hard drive.
Stack chairs the that belong in the studio in a corner, return any chairs or other furniture that you brought into the studio to their original homes.
Put away microphones, mic stands, cables (XLR, cat-5), hearback units
Though this won’t typically be relevant in the control room, please be sure to plug any USB or other peripherals into the main studio computer that you detached in order to work on your own laptop.
Erase the whiteboard.
Turn off the lights
Return any items borrowed from supply closet
Check the space for personal items and trash and recycling and remove items from studio

Zero Setting for Recording Studio

Put all faders on mixer fully down
Stack chairs, organize music stands, mic stands, and baffles.
Return chairs and furniture borrowed from other rooms
Close piano lid and cover the piano with the dust cover.
Erase whiteboard
Turn lights off
Return any items borrowed from the supply closet
Check space for personal items and trash and recycling and remove items from studio

Troubleshooting Tips

Turn it off and then back on again. Really, this works 95% of the time.
Check the studio log to see if anyone else has been having issues and what they did to resolve these issues

Studio Documentation

Studio Manual: Studio 1 & 2

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Control Room and Recording Studio

Zero Setting for the Control Room

Zero Setting for Recording Studio

Troubleshooting Tips

Studio Documentation

Are you a non-major and interested in requesting access to this space?

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