wearing two hats last Saturday night!!

[jmorris]

Recorded a band last Saterday night.I had to set up full multitrack recording and run the camcorder. Here is link to video.Their a fun bunch!

http://www.livebandrecordings.com/Video3.html

[jmorris]

opps! should have really put this in mp3...sorry!

[LemonTree]

recording sounds great for live

[mattr]

Nice stuff

Do you tap off the board, use a mic splitter or have all your own mics?

Its great sound, but also it fits well with the video... When I've tried putting stuff I've recorded live to video it sound great when you just listen, but seems really artificial and weird when you watch the video (maybe lack of natural-sounding reverb?). It just seems like sound is detached from what you're seeing in the video, even if its perfectly sync'd up.

The desk I use when I do gigs has direct-outs on every channel so I just tap off those. Got a video from a gig when it was fairly dead and empty so I was free to stumble round with a video camera! Watch at the end where you see me walking back to the desk and there's no-one there! Shame, cos he was a really good guitarist and we've had that hall packed before...
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=08TkElKGXU8&fmt=18

Anyway, sorry for the thread hijack. Just wondering what kind of room mics / verbs you use to get the natural ambience in your recordings?

Thanks

[jmorris]

mattr. I never tap off board if I can help it. In this case I used 2 splitter boxes for vocals and thats all. They did not mic anything else. If more is mic'd I use splitter snake. I used mackie onyx 1640 firewire into laptop and alesis hd24 for backup.I snyc up video by eye in windows moviemaker...very low tech!

[EddieRay]

Originally Posted by jmorris

mattr. I never tap off board if I can help it. In this case I used 2 splitter boxes for vocals and thats all. They did not mic anything else. If more is mic'd I use splitter snake. I used mackie onyx 1640 firewire into laptop and alesis hd24 for backup.I snyc up video by eye in windows moviemaker...very low tech!

How many tracks?

[jmorris]

Ediray, lets see 9 tracks as follows.
kick
snare
overhead
overhead
gtr
gtr
bass
vocal
vocal