my first venture (last night) recording...

[Gmbydmit]

the band in my basement didn't work out quite as I'd hoped. My first post on this topic was:

http://homerecording.com/bbs/showthread.php?t=258891

The vocals were just way too loud. Everything else (drums with 2 overheads, and one on the bass drum), the Rythm Guitarist (the amp was mic'd), and the lead guitar (ditto), and the bass guitar (ditto), and 2-vocals...

this was my first attempt and everything went into my Yamaha mixing board (model # MG16/6FX) and then all out together in one track to Sonar HS6...

Now, I wasn't expecting much, but the vocals were a lot louder than anything else (this was practice, so I know the singer kept turning up to here himself, which I must've missed being behind the drums)....

I think part of my problem (I know besides a ton of inexperience) is the cabling from the board to my PC...

Does it have to be one way or the other.....Live performance or recording session? I thought I could kinda encompass both...

I'd like to try it again routing from the board to seperate tracks in Sonar...right?!?

Yeah I guess I do if I want something decent.
my sound card is an M-Audio Delta 1010LT PCI
software: Sonar Home Studio 6
PC w/ intel duo core and 2 gig memory, etc

I think also I saw something about using ASIO drivers when recording audio as being a bad thing?
HELP!

[Nick98338]

Originally Posted by Gmbydmit

(snip)... Now, I wasn't expecting much, but the vocals were a lot louder than anything else (this was practice, so I know the singer kept turning up to here himself, which I must've missed being behind the drums)....

Does it have to be one way or the other.....Live performance or recording session? I thought I could kinda encompass both...

The *levels* you need for "live", so that the musicians can hear, may not be the same levels you need for "recording". In that sense, you usually do need two different levels. Sometimes that means two different cabling routes for the two different levels. One cable route from mixer to amp/speaker/monitor (analog sound route), and a completely different cable route from mixer to your digital recorder (digital sound route). Many people use the aux sends in a mixer as a second route. Some use a second mixer.