Life recording

[Roel]

I will be recording a demo soon for a rock band, style The Who etc... The recordings will be made life,no isolated rooms, for drums, guitar and bass at once. The rest will be overdubbed.

I will have a whole set of dynamic mics available, and one AKG3000C. So which instrument/part do I use it for? Other tips for doing this? There will be alot of crosstalk from the guitars and bass on the drum mics...

Thanks.

[Track Rat]

Put your dynamic mics on the guitar cabs (bass try going direct to tape), kick, snare and toms and use the C-3000 as a mono drum overhead. When you do your overdubs, use the C-3000 for youur vocals.

[Roel]

Cool, that's about what I planned to do.

Now, where do you position it best for mono overhead? Is this above the drummers head?

And some more detailed questions. I've got 8 simultanious rec tracks. Two for guitars (2 amps...), one for bass, this leaves 5 for drums. One kick, one snare, one overhead.

Two left. We still have 1 or 2 toms, floor-tom and hihat... One could cover the toms, one for floor tom... Hmmm...

I could however make a sub-mix with my (behringer) MX1204 mixer. We hire the mics, so the number of dynamics doesn't matter. Is this a good idea? Toms in the submix? Better not use EQ in this, right?

[Sabith]

And itz usually refered to as "live" opposed to life, but U can say however U want, just pointin that out

Sabith