Topic: Aud + Board Question

[Sparge Master]

Okay I am going to be taping a freind of mine's band (i knew the guy since his peter was about wee |                    | big) so anyway I had a few questions. The band is a punk type band and I am wondering if it would be better to go
1) Audience + Board Mix
2) Audience + Vox + Guitar

The combining would be done post.
Thanks
Sparger

[cleantone]

Firstly. How big is his wee now? 

If your able I find that seperateing the instruments and vocals is always helpful. They recombine easily and you obviously have a little extra control in the mix. Just the feed from the mains and the vocals might be louder than you like.

Good luck.

[mmmatt]

Unless he is using a d/i on stage and not amplifying his guitar... or if it is a very large venue, you should have plenty of guitar in the room.  Without knowing much more, I would say mic the stage with split omni's or a config and take the board feed.
     If it is a small club it will most likely be mono for the board so you could also grab a vox chan or something else if you wanted, but I doubt you would really use it.

Assuming it is...

electric guitar through an amp
bass through an amp
drums w/ kick, overheads and snare
2 vox mics

...my recomendation stands.  If there is only one vox, or if it is a big room, or if it is all d/i boxes, then maybe I would recommend something else.  With a stage mic scenario you get a good image where recording from the room you get more of a room image with the instruments all kinda centered... here again assuming it is a mono board feed which is typical for small clubs.

Matt