Guys....thanks for the help and +T's all around. It is definitely a small club and I'm sure it will be a mono mix. Unforunately I don't have a headphone amp so I don't know how much headphones would help me.
I was thinking possibly on stage, if so would a wide DIN or ORTF work for this as well? I just got my new cables and xlr's this week and have'nt put them together yet so I only have one set of cables Ubless I can get them together today. Again thanks for the suggestions.
I'm not an expert at matrix recordings but I believe if you run the mics on stage you may have some delay issues with the 2 inputs.
Besides, I'm not really sure why you would want to run on stage if you are doing a matrix anyway. Like Tim said, with the mics in this situation you are basically trying to get some spaciousness and the feeling of "being there." I don't really see why you wouldn't just run from near the board.
I mean, if you want to make an on-stage tape I'd say just do that and screw the sbd feed alltogether.
Just my .02
For the record this is actually incorrect... the delay issue comes when you are further away form the source (PA Speakers) The stage micing will give you all the instruments on the stage and not the vox. The sbd feed will give you all the vox and almost no instruments. The exception to this rule is when you are taping a band that uses DI boxes instead of amps on stage. The reason a sbd feed in a small club is all vocals is because the sound coming from the musicians amps on stage is already so loud, that the PA doesn't have to amplify them very much (if at all). Going on stage will give you a more upfront sound (ESPECIALLY on the drums) and it is easyer to monitor... should even be posible with the puny little headphone amp on the ua5, if you have decent closed back headphones. The trick to monitoring a matrix when micing on stage is to just blend the vox with the music, it is tougher when micing from the FOH because you are putting vox over vox, and adding the sound of the room (think sloppy booming bass... potentially). I've done both and I highly recomend you go onstage if you can in a small club for a rock band. If you go onstage ortf I would run the rolloff on your mics, or my preference onstage would be x/y. As stated by bagtag it will tighten up the bass, and the rolloff shouldn't be needed. Up close x/y has a spectacular image. No matter what you do from the foh, you will get a lot of room, a lot of chitchat, and the only image you will get is in the ambiance. On stage you will get a true stereo image of the instruments as they are located on the stage.
FWIW I do a lot of matrix recordings, but I have never used my ua-5 for it. I use a mixer but the technique will be the same.
Matt
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