Recording to MD.

[7528]

My recording equipment list is as follows:

1) Sony MZ-R70 Player/Recorder

2) SM 57's, 58's

3) 12 Channel Mixer

4) Portastudio MKIII (new)

Can I go from the mic's to the board, to the recorder?
Would this work and/or work fine?

Would I need a compressor or anything like that?

Would it be better if I went to the board to the 4 Track then the MD Recorder?

Im looking to record my bands demo (Drums, Guitar, Bass, Vocals).

Thanks

[boingoman]

Record your seperate tracks to the Portastudio. This allows you to record multiple tracks. Then you mix those tracks together, and record a stereo mix on your MD player.

[7528]

so basically dump all into the portastudio and mix down to md. I got it.

Now would it be efficent to go through the mixer into say channel one on the porta studio so I can get more mic's on the drums?

OR would it be better to mic the drums into the mixer then into channel 1 and then record bass on 2, guitar on 3 and vocals on 4.

Is this stuff as simple as it seems?

[Nilbog]

Record drums on 6 channels or howver many you need
then mix down the drums to 2 channels (left and right panned) then you will have 6 channels left over for your guitar bass and vocals.

If you're too lazy this was my set up when I had 8 tracks:
1 - bass drum
2 -snare
3 - overhead 1
4 - overhead 2
5 -bass
6 -guitar
7 -vocals
8 -keyboard or whatever

you can do ALRIGHT with only 4 mics on the drums.