If I could pick your brain a little.... I have the Multimix Firewire, and am recording a small band 2-Gtr, bass, drums, harp, vocs. I am currently pulling the vox(4) off of a powered mixer into a single channel. My question is, what would be the best choices to stack on those 5/6 & 7/8 channels? I also have my Sound Devices MP-2 mic pre that can be thrown into the mix also!
Thanks for any input,
Pat
Hi Pat, you are saying that you have 4 sets of vocals? So I count the need for (at least) 9 channels (Drums just got a stereo overhead ?
I suppose I need more data, what individual outputs are available from the Powered Mixer? Certainly recording vocalists to individual channels is a better idea, using your MP-2 to feed say 7/8. Can you group your vocals, lead into 7, backing into 8? That would leave 6 channels for the rest of the band...
digifish
More details, if you guys don't mind the partial hijack..... and some sound samples!
XLR1- Lead Guitar Cab mic'd w/Oktave MC012
XLR2- Snare/Highhat unknown mic
XLR3- Drum overhead Oktava MC012
XLR4- Acoustic guitar line from amp
CH5- Bass guitar direct from amp
CH7- Line in from Powered Mixer (an old Peavey XR600b) handling 4 vocal mics
This is what I used on the first attempt. The harp player was absent this night, so in the future I will need to mic his amp. This was a mix on the fly production, and recorded direct into an Edirol R-09, post production with SoundForge and various Plugins. Totally experimental! Funky Chicken would be my choice for a sample. And of course the wav's sound much better than the MP3's.
http://www.4shared.com/dir/2587624/473e0348/WallyBeaver.htmlThanks for the input!
Pat