AA1 - Week 3 - Studio Quickstart

Im in the action as we speak! We literally just got the music playing through the speakers. Hooray! Unfortunately for Amy and I, we were unable to get our 3 hours studio time, but, for a change, what we had to do turned out to be quite easy compared to everything else i have attempted in this course so far.Using the D.O.R.A. system, which, luckily, i had written down quite extensively during the lesson, determined to do something right, we were able to set up the recording system. After doing that a few times without blowing up the speakers, we got ready to turn everything off and leave, when, conviently, Freddie turned up and told us we had to set up radio/speaker/headphone connections so as to be able to hear the radio through our speakers. I found it was pretty straight forward, as i had written down what all the buttons do on the mixer. After getting the sound to work through the headphones, we then set out to make it work through the mixer and speakers. After pressing a few wrong buttons, and finally realising that Amy had pressed the button below the main mix button which wasnt supposed to be on, everything started working. We were extremely pleased, except for Freddie, who seemed to be holding back his joy.
Overall, very pleased that we were able to do this,properly. :)
Ok. Maybe not. As i wrote that Freddie then told us that we had to get a signal through Pro Tools. After setting everything up and opening Pro Tools, just our luck, there was no signal. We tried everything but nothing would work.We had signal through the mixer but nothing through the actual computer programme. In the end we had to get a teacher to come in and help us, who discovered that in the 2 input cables in the back of the 192, someone had changed it from the -10 input to the +4. The input is usually set to -10 so thats was th reason why we werent getting any sound, something apparently by which only people with extra knowledge could fix, so thankfully it wasnt out fault.
For my second overall, i think it wen sort of well. Maybe.