Another session that I was part of was with a local singer-songwriter who hired a band to work with her on a song. I met engineer Keith Hanlon— who does the majority of recordings at Musicol— and got to work on miking up instruments. Keith had made an input list and had microphones chosen already, and it was nice to have a reference point to look back on when setting up. There were a few inputs that were not working so we had to make some changes to get signal. I gathered headphone boxes, placed them in front of each person, and grabbed everyone’s headphones as well. After ensuring everything was plugged in and switched on, I put tape on each box and labeled each knob with the corresponding instrument. Once the headphones were set up, we checked levels for each mic and set the gain. This was a fairly quick process, and we got to recording the song. The band had requested a practice run, and we decided to hit record just in case. After a few run-throughs and experimenting with a click track, we were able to settle on a tempo for the song. We recorded drums, bass, electric guitar, acoustic guitar, and scratch vocals. After getting several takes we were able to settle on one that sounded good. After the full band recording, the singer decided she wanted to record keyboard over top. We set up a DI box and recorded a few takes of the keys, which added a nice string-like sound in the background. This recording was very exciting to be a part of, and it was nice to get to work with a full band this time.