Stavros Stavrou, a 38-year-old professional musician from Cyprus, presents his project for the week 2 assignment in his digital audio workstation (DAW). He creates a new project folder and prepares eight mono audio tracks, naming and coloring them for guitars, bass, vocals, and flute. He then sets the sample rate, enables metronome click, adjusts input levels to prevent clipping, and enables recording and monitoring on the appropriate tracks. Stavros hopes viewers enjoyed his presentation and looks forward to further assignments.

1. Hello to you all . My name is Stavros Stavrou
, I am 38 year old professional musician and I
come from Cyprus , a small island in the
Mediterranean Sea . This is my presentation
for week 2 assignment .

2. Week 2 Assignment
Prepare a project in your DAW
using the project checklist from the
material as your guidelines

3. Record a new Project.
Creating New Project Folder and
Preparing all necessary tracks within
the DAW , ready for recording.
Objective

4. First thing when creating a new project, set
the bit rate and sample rate to 24bit at
48KHz

5. The DAW will now ask you where would you like to create the
Project Folder . You can select anywhere you like. Remember
that, in this folder all the audio parts , edits ,cross fades e.t.c will
be stored.

6. The next step is to create all the necessary audio tracks that we need for the
project. We can always add as many tracks as we like during the procedure of
the recording. It is better to add mono track unless your going to record
stereo pads or piano.

7. Here as you can see I’ve created 8
mono audio tracks.

8. The next step is to give the tracks names that will make your life easier when
recording editing or even mixing. Here I have two channels for El.guitars , two
channels for Bass one for Lead Vocal , one for back vocals , one for a flute and
one for acoustic guitar.

9. Also a nice way to keep your tracks “tidy” is to color them with the same color. Here I
colored all the guitars blue, The Basses red the Vocals Yellow (I know I should have
colored Lead Vocal a different color from back vocal) and flute as Green

10. An important step in the recording procedure is timing. So it’s a good
idea at this point to set up the metronome or click .

11. We are nearly there!! Now we have to adjust the input levels for each player.
First we lower the volume all the way down , plug the instruments and then
little by little we bring the levels to the point where there is no clipping.

12. Final step ; Record enable the track you want to record and also make sure
you have Monitor On so that the performer has sound in his or her
headphones.

13. Hoped you liked my presentation and I
am looking forward on your peers and
for the next assignment.
Thank you for your patience.
Stavros Stavrou