Audio Lab Proficiency--Yamaha O2R, Toft ATB, UAD Apollo X16

START UP PROCEDURES

Log into the logbook

Power on the power bar beneath the Apollo X16.

Use the LG Display Remote to turn on Display monitors

Turn ON and login to the computer

Open Pro Tools and make a new session using the "API Stereo" template

USING THE 02R

Explain the normalizations between the Yamaha 02R to and from the Apollo X16, and identify them on the patch bay

Demonstrate how to toggle between fader layers on the 02R

Identify where the main output of Pro Tools comes out of the Apollo X16 by default, and identify which channels those outputs are normalized to on the 02R

Plug a mic into a one of the receptacles in the control room

Patch the output of the mic receptacle into input 1 of the O2R

Set preamp level. Explain +48v and the Pad

Record arm track 1 of the Pro Tools template. Since the direct output of channel 1 of the O2R is normalized to input 1 of the Apollo, sound from the microphone should be showing on the channel's meter in Pro Tools. Mute the channel, since it will be monitored direct from the O2R

Bring up the fader to set the level to the main output fader. Bring up the Control Room volume knob to adjust the level coming out of the studio monitors

Record some audio

Play back the audio through the Pro Tools return channels on the O2R

Send a headphone cue to the headphones in the control room

Record an overdub while listening to the first audio that was recorded

USING THE TOFT ATB

Unlike the Yamaha O2R, the Toft is not normalized to inputs or outputs of the Apollo X16 or the headphone cues. The only normals are to (currently unused) XLR umbilicals for an 8 channel tape machine, as well as a connection between the Toft's Monitor output and the Tannoy nearfield monitors

Explain the relationship between the Apollo X16 and the Toft. Identify where their inputs and outputs appear on the patch bay

Patch in a stereo audio source, such as CD or iPod output, into Line Inputs 1 and 2 of the Toft

Identify block diagrams for the Toft input module controls and describe function/uses

Explain the difference between the pan and submaster paths- trace on block

Explain pre/post sends for Aux and Cue Mix

Send your stereo audio source to the Main Output of the Toft

Explain the Monitor Control section of the Toft and listen to your stereo source on the Tannoy monitors

Send your stereo audio source to submasters 1 and 2

Patch submaster outputs 1 and 2 into Apollo line inputs 1 and 2

Open the ProTools Audio Lab template and record the CD (or iPod) to tracks 1 and 2 via the submaster

Patch a microphone in the studio into a microphone preamp on an unused channel of the Toft. Assign this channel to Stereo so you can hear it through the Toft’s monitor controller

Outputs 15 and 16 of the Apollo are designated as the Cue outputs from ProTools or Ableton. Patch these outputs into additional line inputs of the Toft. This allows us to monitor the output of the DAW though the Toft, and send it as part of a cue mix to the talent

Patch the direct output of the channel your microphone is on into Apollo line input 3

Supply talent with a cue mix of the CD tracks from tape, as well as their live mic signal, by using the cue/aux sends and the patch bay

Record mic source into ProTools as an overdub to the stereo source that was already recorded

Playback mix

Render

SHUT DOWN PROCEDURES

Normalize the Toft

Clear patch bay

Power OFF the power switch and the Display monitors

Log out of the logbook