How to Do Up a Very Live Space

[drstawl]

I've spent hours going over the recording I made last Sunday in a very live open space of a jazz quartet.

My conclusions:

In a live space like this, there is no need to put a condenser mic on the drums as an overhead. The other condenser mics in the room serve this purpose quite well. Close mic it with a bunch of highly directional mics.
2 sm 57s on toms and snare, an AKG D112 on kick, and an SM58 on the hi hat, maybe an AKG D770 on another tom. Plenty of cymbal bleed into everything. I ain't worried.
Separate the players and let them all monitor themselves with a 4-out headphone amp fed by the main mix going to CDR. Mic the standup bass with two channels (thanks Camn) one being my NT-1 and the other the pickup the guy uses for his amp. I'll have him leave the amp home. Mic the guitar cab in another corner of the room with an NT-1. Have the drum set up in the center of the room as opposed to right next to the grand piano. Maybe I can take up a collection to have the band and myself pay to have the piano tuned correctly....
Use the AT 4033 on the piano from the other side facing away from the drums, toward the 'open' side of the grand.

It's gonna rock! Yee Hah!!!

[The Green Hornet]

Yo Dr. Dr.Stawl:

Hee Hee Hee:

The way I would DO UP A VERY LIVE SPACE IS TO MAKE SURE THAT AT LEAST FOUR OF MY GIRLFRIENDS WERE THERE WHEN I WANTED TO START DOING IT UP.

Well, at least three since I'm a little older.

Green Hornet

[John Sayers]

get the band to hire some office partitions and use them as gobos..?? Mainly for the bass and piano.

Cheers
John

[drstawl]

Green Hornet- we're recording this in a CHURCH! I have no religious affiliation with them, but tend to believe that your plan might be somewhat disrepectful. Now if this were the church of the sacred bong- no worries. Party down!