RECORDING IN PROTOOLS (FOR SAMPLE LIBRARY)

Requirements- 45-60 minutes of recording time: you will need enough sounds to create a sample library of 80-100 samples. Use the objects in the box, the environment, your voice and body to produce a wide variety of sounds. Experiment with the objects to get as many different sounds as you can. Make musical sounds, noisy sounds, foley sounds (zippers, clothing, shoes, keys), strange sounds... sing, cough, click your mouth... etc. Make impulsive (percussive) sounds and longer/repetitive sounds.

Don't break anything or hurt yourself.

The more you experiment and play, the more options you will have later. Check out this link about the Futurists for an example of how to categorize sounds.

Make sure you listen with the headphones for a GOOD SOUND LEVEL constantly- too high and the signal will clip and distort, too low and you will bring up the noise floor when you normalize the sample. Never "clip" the signal (the red). IF YOUR RECORDING IS TOO NOISY, YOU WILL HAVE TO DO IT AGAIN, because you will lose points from this each time you use these noisy sounds.

PLEASE CLEAN-UP AND TURN OFF THE LIGHTS WHEN YOU ARE FINISHED.

1) Launch Protools

2) Create a new session under FILE. Set the session to AIFF, 16bit, 48hz. Save to the desktop.

3) In the Edit window, at the top menu, select TRACK>New Tracks. Create 2 mono tracks.

4) On each track make sure the I/O (input/output) is set to Mic/Line 1 for track one and Mic/Line 2 for the second track. If you don't see the I/O for the track, go set the edit window to show I/O view.

5) Record enable the tracks. You should see a level from your mics. You can adjust the gain on the Mbox I/O. BE SURE YOUR SAMPLES DON'T CLIP, CHECK THE LEVELS CONSTANLY.

6) Record enable the Protools tracks. Record enable Protools.

7) Hit play to start to record and stop when finished.

8) Make sure you back up TWO copies of the entire session folder. The audio files folder is of utmost importance!!!!

9) Turn in your session recording on a CD-R and keep the back-ups for yourself.