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Gear / Technical Help => Ask The Tapers => Topic started by: Sparge Master on May 08, 2006, 12:07:10 PM
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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
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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.
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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