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Just wondering if anyone's got any helpful advice on this?
Next month I'm off to do a live recording of a five piece country blues band going all acoustic in some yet to be decided country location over a three or four days. The plan is to have them all lined up in the same room, maybe in a gentle semi circle, and record them playing all together. Guitars, acoustic bass, mando, brush drums, harmonica and vocals. No amps, speakers, overdubs or drop ins. No audience.
They say they want to reflect the position of the various players in the stereo spread of the final mix. I'm going to spot mike everything to it's own track anyway so that can be controlled but I'm also going to run ambient condenser room mikes and it's the type and placement of those that I'm interested in hearing about peoples experiences.
I reckon the player line / semi circle's going to run about twenty five feet so I'm thinking three spaced equally across the line / semi circle with an LDC in the centre and two SDC's, left and right, cardiod pattern.
Other options are just run with two mikes not three and omni's rather than cardiod's.
Again they'll all go down to their own seperate tracks.
There'll be time to experiment but any helpful hints gratefully received?
Ta.
Next month I'm off to do a live recording of a five piece country blues band going all acoustic in some yet to be decided country location over a three or four days. The plan is to have them all lined up in the same room, maybe in a gentle semi circle, and record them playing all together. Guitars, acoustic bass, mando, brush drums, harmonica and vocals. No amps, speakers, overdubs or drop ins. No audience.
They say they want to reflect the position of the various players in the stereo spread of the final mix. I'm going to spot mike everything to it's own track anyway so that can be controlled but I'm also going to run ambient condenser room mikes and it's the type and placement of those that I'm interested in hearing about peoples experiences.
I reckon the player line / semi circle's going to run about twenty five feet so I'm thinking three spaced equally across the line / semi circle with an LDC in the centre and two SDC's, left and right, cardiod pattern.
Other options are just run with two mikes not three and omni's rather than cardiod's.
Again they'll all go down to their own seperate tracks.
There'll be time to experiment but any helpful hints gratefully received?
Ta.