 I'm Sergio Angelos. Today we're going to be doing an audio studio orientation just so you can familiarize yourself with how to turn on the equipment, the audio studio, how it works at a basic level, and how to use a vocal booth so that you can record sound. I will not be going in depth about how to use the Apollo in depth or how to use Luna or any Luna, which is a doll, which is a music recorder generator. I'll not be going over any of that whatsoever. So this is just going over how do you get prepared to use this studio. It's important to know that some of this is not ours currently. So some of this has been lended or loaned temporarily by members until we can buy our own stuff. So please just be cautious and treat all the equipment here with respect. So we've obviously got a desk, we have a Mac mini, we have the Apollo x8p, which is the audio interface. So this supports up to technically 16 physical inputs. Right now we only have eight connected. We have some music and sound like recorders and cassette players. We have two really great speakers on this side. We've got your routing and I'll explain how that works. And then we also have a surge protector. So the first thing you want to do when you turn on the system is you want to turn on the surge protector. So there's an on button right up top here. So we go and hit on. You'll notice that now that powers on the speakers and you'll notice that these are blue. You never want to turn these off in the back. You always want to make sure that you turn it off through here. This also supplies power to the Apollo x8p. So to turn that on, there's an on switch right here. It's more like a lever. So you want to turn that on. You'll see the light come on here and then you also see some little dancing going around in there. And once that's on, I mean obviously when it's lit up, you'll know that it's on. You'll also notice on the screen, it'll say connecting to Apollo x8p. So now if you were to start playing music or anything like that, the speakers are set to be the main output. So let's talk about the XLR routing. So we have here what we call a default setup. And this is already labeled. So you know what the output is and what the input is. So for example, output which is from the booth. So booth number one, output is the mic in there, in our vocal booth. And it's plugged into input four, which corresponds to the Apollo input four. So output from this desk mic is set to, in this case, 12, but it's going into number two on the Apollo. Please never, you know, disconnect anything from the back of this because it's already routed. And we will be very upset that you disconnected that because it's already set up. You can always change what inputs these go into, right? And I'll show later on the Apollo how you change that input. But just keep in mind, we do have a default setup here. We also do have two output sends. So what these do is you do have the ability to send audio from the Apollo XAP back upstairs to the Bay TV studio. We don't do that all the time. It's really certain situations like concerts, if we want a separate mix, that's different from the room. But you can do that here. And that's what these two are. That's why they're left and right. And they're already plugged into the, so all the routing is kind of behind here. So all these, we actually, as I said, we have 16 inputs plus two sends up. So you never need to touch any of that. You never need to touch any of this bottom piece. Just make sure, you know, you change this wherever you want your routing to go. Now that we do that, let's go over some of the stuff on the Apollo. So this first style, this is your preamp. So it is, you know, you can turn it for your preamp gain. You also have the ability to change what type of input. So whether it's a mic or line input, if you press on the preamp, you'll notice that the number has now changed right to six, seven, eight, you know, one, two, three, four, five, six. So, you know, this corresponds to the eight inputs that we have here, right, depending on whether it is a mic input or a line, you need to set it up. Again, when you will load up Luna, there's a default template that will automatically turn on stuff from what they are. There's a really great software and hardware integration. So it's very seamless and it works really nice. This right here is your monitor. So volume for your speakers. If you see it red, it's muted. I learned that the hard way. I didn't know you could actually click this. So just keep in mind that you can do that. We also do have headphones out here, as well as there's a another line that goes into the vocal booth for headsets. So you'll be able to hear what's happening. There's also a talkback system, so you can talk from here directly to the person in the booth. Right above this UA, there's a little pinhole. That is the microphone. Okay, okay. Now let's talk about the computer. The default password to log in is password all over the case, if you're up on the log screen. We do have a external SSD. The reason for that is so that you can save all your projects directly to the SSD. Do not save your projects to the desktop or the computer. We will wipe them and they will be deleted and you will be sad. You're welcome to bring in your own SSD if you want. That way it's not on here. We do also every now and then clean out the drive about every six months or so to make sure that you're not storing stuff here all the time. To get started you want to find the program Luna and open that up. So Luna is a recording software created by Universal Audio, hence why it's so integrated. We also do have Logic Pro on here. I believe the Apollo also works with Logic, but we don't have an orientation on that and you kind of have to figure it out yourself right now. All right, now that it's loaded you want to name your projects. In this case we'll just name it, you know, Sergio June 8, 2023, and you'll see that there's, you know, you can start from a specific template. So we have made, or members have made a specific LPM template called LPM default. This is this default setup so that you're always good to go. You can change your tempo, you know, whatever you want. More importantly change the location of your project. In this case it is going to my folder, but, you know, make sure, you know, you put it in your right folder, right? There's a lot of different people on here, so just make sure you're saving it to the right spot. When you're ready, you hit create and that will create a new session and it'll say, hey, one or more record-enabled tracks will enable phantom power on an input channel. Do you want to enable it? Yes, because this is a default template and it will automatically turn on phantom power. If you ever need to turn on phantom power, this phantom power button is right here, so you can turn that sucker on. So I think right now phantom power is turned on on input number three, which right now is nothing. If we go to number four, I believe that is the booth mic. I want my new phantom power. So this is like one of the views. This is where, you know, you can change your input gain on the variety of different inputs and says studio mic desk mic booth mic booth spare. Whatever you do here will also show up here. The next view you want to use is, I guess, a timeline display. So this is what you'll be really what will let you record and stuff like that. So if you want to record enable a track like the booth mic, for example, or we could even do the desk mic. So we're going to do the desk mic. This right here right is corresponding to input number three on the Apollo. So we want to make sure, right, we don't have anything on the Apollo. So in this case, we need a jumper to go from the desk mic right into three. Hello. And now you can kind of see a little bit of channel, little bit of audio there. And if we want to start recording, we hit this at the record enable. Hello. This is Sergio. We are testing the microphone on the desk. Hello. This is Sergio. We are testing the microphone on the desk. So that is the desk mic. That one does require finger power. If we want to use the booth, maybe you can test it out for us. Or if you can, whatever So the way to get in the booth, there's a hidden light switch underneath this panel that turns on the light. Very important. In the vocal booth, we have a mic. We also have headset and we've got little volume here. If you don't hear something, just make sure that the volume is set accordingly. And then there's another XLR input right down there, which is for booth spread number two. Okay. One, two, three, four. I've got mic. Yep. So what happened there is the booth mic was set to mic input three. So it should be input four. So that's what we changed it to. If you do want to change it, the way it works is you select on the input. Let's say this was input two, you just select into. So this one, you know, need to make sure again, if booth one is going into four, you've set the according input on this side. If you want to do a talkback, let's say right, you're in there, there's this button called talk. You literally just press it once and then you can talk and whoever in the booth will be able to listen to you. Can you hear us? Yep, I've got you. All right, Clark, why don't you give us a little song here? We're going to start recording and go whenever you're ready. That is not going to happen. Sorry. Perfect. Thank you. Come out of the booth now. That is not going to happen. That's all right. I won't go into how to fully use Luna as a software component. There's actually a lot of good videos on Universal Audio about how to do that. But what I will show is a couple things. One, Luna just saves automatically by itself. If you go to file, it'll say save as template. You never want to do this. Why? This will then save it as a template. And then when you go at the beginning, it's going to be like, I'm going to save it as the June, Sergio June 8, 2023 template and then reload all the same stuff. You never want to do that. So just know it gets saved automatically. When you are ready to export, you go to file, export, mix down. And then you can change your different mix down settings. Keep in mind where it's saving to. And also the file type. You can also choose to individually do each channel if you want to. But when you're ready, just hit mix down and export the mix. How did you go from timeline to mixer view? So right here, there's timeline view, mixer display. So always very helpful to make sure that this is on and you have volume, your input gain is set to zero or whatever it is that you need to. You also notice, here's my preamp. As I rotate this, the preamp for the booth mic is changing up top. So that's where there's really nice integration where I can lower this here and it just lowers here. So it's really, really nice. Really good synergy there. Now that you're done, so let's say we're done and we quit, here's the shut down procedures. You want to quit out of Luna. You want to make sure your monitor's low. Turn off the Apollo. And then you turn off the search protector. Which is a little pop, but that's it. And then you are now done. Thank you for watching.