It’s currently about an hour since my group and I wrapped up our demo recording at Triple R for this studio! I feel like we are really organised and work super well as a team, which is amazing. But we had some serious technical difficulties when it came to our first and second initial demo recordings… yes, that’s right, we had already gone through our demo running sheet TWICE before actually maintaining the correct WAV file. I’ve already blogged about our initial demo attempt. Here I’ll be talking about our second failure, and our final success!

I can tell you’re confused and distraught right now, but you also see the glimmer of hope due to my mention of success at the end of that introduction to this post. You’re probably wondering “what could have ever gone wrong (again) with your recording when involved with such an amazing group of beautiful and intelligent women?!” Well, for this second round, again – it was not our lack of skill as a group in order to produce a fabulous demo show! Once again, it was the ridiculousness that is, technology.

We recorded our hour long demo, which went extremely well, from 12pm – 1pm on this day. Well, we thought we had at least! Turns out we were recording what was actually going live to air on Triple R for the entire time… Incredible… No one told us which buttons we needed to press on the panel to record the correct line, the mock-show we were making! Possibly somebody did, but there was already so much to process when being freshly introduced to everything that the Triple R studios have to offer. So really, if we had actually saved that .aup file correctly… we’d just have the live recording as well. So, never mind that either! Needless to say, we’ve managed to gain some really good practice in this spectacular ordeal. I’m going to unofficially name our group, the Triple R’s Third Time Lucky. For us, it stands for Record, Record, Record… aka Triple R. That third R, that’s the luckiest one.

Today’s initial recording went really smoothly we thought. So we were DEVASTATED to find we didn’t have it. Just like Monday’s run through, Rose did an amazing job operating the panel. I’m really impressed with her ability to control the outputs properly and be so organised and calm with everything that’s about to happen on the show. When I played around with the panel I found it confusing and didn’t manage to grasp it entirely, but had I had a bit more practice, I’d surely have been able to – I feel that Rose is a fast learner, problem solver and works well under pressure – which seems really important in panel operating, particularly because we’ve been a little thrown into the deep end with this studio. Obviously there were some blunders with both the panel transitions, and with Sammy and I hosting. But they were minor and we managed to recover from them smoothly we found. There were very few moments where Rose transitioned too slowly or out of time, despite her thinking she had! Sammy and I realised that in the first recording today, when we initially interviewed Olivia about her upcoming trip to Europe and JJ about her life and the green man pedestrian crossing debacle which came into place a day before International Women’s Day, that Sammy took the reigns a bit too much and I didn’t get to ask as many questions. However, we definitely worked on that a bit more in the second (actually recorded and exported to WAV file) demo and the talking got a bit more evenly spread. Also the fact we were discussing the pedestrian crossing issue was something that Sammy had actually already spoken about on a radio show she does with Syn – so she was really well informed and had a lot of content to use. When we’re actually doing the live to air show, we will obviously have a plan of which basic questions to ask, in order to lead into conversation with our guests and we’ll delegate these really evenly to run off if we’ve been stuck at a point with our guests where the answer to one of our questions has been appropriately covered.

With our actual recording, I found we were all far more relaxed, Sammy and I work far more naturally together now. Not that it was unnatural to begin with – but it was still a little unfamiliar. In many ways, our first and second recording incidents have been an absolute disaster BUT it has given us the opportunity to get more practice in – we feel like we’re really on to it with this project and are now currently ahead with our work which is a much-needed comfort for the Lucky Threes clan!

https://soundcloud.com/user-960295125/rwav-demo

Here’s our demo above, finally!