Okay, so here we've got the Elise's Hd 24 heart. This recorder has 24 tracks of instruments on here. And what I've done is I've written out all the channels on the desk so Charles wants 24 and we've got a pretty much standard lineup for kick snare hi hats for Tom's overheads, bass going acoustic guitar, electric guitar, keyboards and for vocals. So that's my 24 channels. So, we're going to go ahead now he's going to start plugging inserts in, I'm going to mark up the rack of where the different inserts are being the way that I can always change my mind I can get halfway through this change my mind and decide to put thing I think I'm going to start off with one channel at the manly on the acoustic guitar, and one channel on whichever is the most awkward of the two vocals and then I'll use one of the other compressors on the other phone call.

So I'm going to mark it up and then we're going to go around the back of the desk and All the cables in and patch it all up and get it working. So we're around the back of the desk and all the sockets for the desk. So pretty much on the back of it all the only socket I think on the front is there's like a headphone socket, everything else is on the back. And it's pretty much lined up with the front of the desk. So it's very easy to find which sockets relate to what channels. So we've got input section here, we've got our stereo channels here, got our output section here, and more inputs here.

For go straight to there, we'll use this channel that channel 24. Here we've just finished plugging in the last of the inserts here, the XLR coming in on the A and the B sockets here. We mentioned before we've got a socket A B, so can we choose between them we're using the B's we've got the actual microphones, because we're using the multitrack where we're using the a socket so there's also handy thing as a direct out here. And so you can actually take an output of the channel itself for multitrack recording or whatever you want to use it for the inserts on Jack's She's quite standard. These then go off this cable then goes off to the back of our rack over here to the compresses the gates and come back in again. So it sends out on one, and returns back into the desk on another.

Then we've got our output section here, which is we've got the sends to the lexicons the returns from the lexicon, reverbs, all here. And then over here, we've got the extra channels, which we're actually not using today. So things on the back, they put all the sort of the least use sockets at the bottom here. So you've got various linking sockets, so you can actually join two desks together, you can link to desks together with this console. It's called bussing them through. And then you've got various things quite clearly, these are the typical difficult ones that we use quite a lot.

There's a top back end and the top back out, and they've clearly labeled them on the back with big bit of tape, which is very handy. And they've actually color coded a few things here as well. So it's all pretty easy to understand. We've patched all our inputs Are channels all patched, everything's ready to go. So we're pretty much set. Okay, so now we're at the point where we're going to start doing a mix.

We've got a Elise's at 24 hard disk record. And on that we've got 24 tracks of the band Gomez, which is a live recording of a song called options. It was recorded straight from stage box, so it's not gonna be here or anything like that on it. And it's going to help us demonstrate how us as engineers approach a mix. And what we're going to do is we're going to bring that back to the desk, listen to over the PA and discuss and demonstrate some of the mixing techniques we use. Let's start mixing