Live Music Recorded Direct to CD

[drstawl]

This is a sample of my first attempt at recording a live gig digitally. I used two rodents into a dbx 386 pre, then digitally into a TASCAM CDRW-5000. The CDs were dumped digitally to Gina and edited with Sound Forge
then converted to mp3 in Vegas Pro.
The style is old-time blues played on a 1931
Dobro and a standup bass 30 years older than that.
It's at my website because I-drive was giving me a hard time with uploads.
http://members.home.net/drstawl/midi.html

The tune is "Drunkenhearted Man"
3659 KB in 192 kbps .mp3 format.

[This message has been edited by drstawl (edited 03-28-2000).]

[gibs]

Sounds good...and it's apparent the audience thought so too, so what's yer take on it? I mean, did the recording sound pretty much the same as hearing it in the room?...cool....gibs

[drstawl]

Yeah- it sounded just like that. My intention was to capture the show just the way they usually play it and not to play sound engineer with a bunch of crappy equipment that doesn't even belong to me. The guitar was using a mic (SM-57) and a Pick-up (Dean Markley (sp?) I think on the guitar and some even cheaper mic on the vocals all fed into the house PA. When I checked out what they had it was all highly neglected, but worked OK as far as having no bad feedback problems.
AC hum was only intermittently intolerable.
The bass was just getting an indirect feed to the PA through the two mics on the guitar and vocals.