Greetings,
I've been daring to share this one for quite some time. Before listening, I just wanted to warn potential listeners of a few things in order to put this in perspective.
The recording itself isn't what I would call "really good." However, the funny thing about this is how truly amazing it sounds, at least to me, given what I had to work with.
This was recorded last halloween at my apartment during what is my annual halloween bash. The band was a Fleetwood Mac cover band. Very HOT singer, by the way.
This was what I thought a kickass rendition of Sister of the Moon:
http://www.nowhereradio.com/artists/5/1298/singles.shtml
At the time, I had very little to work with. Most of my decent equipment was packed up in boxes, as it had to moved around. You see, we had just had a flood in my normal studio space, so everything was sort of being "dried off."
Anyway, my buddie's band wondered if I'd record their performance at my party. All I had unpacked was a borrowed multitrack recorder which only allowed two tracks recorded at a time. This still left me with a lot more instruments/voices to try and record! So I improvised. Guitar and bass went through the multitrack's 2 inputs. . The guitar was miced with a 57 - no outboard preamp was available. I used a splitter on bass: One channel went out to his amp, and the other went to an art tube mp and then to the recorder's input.
For drums, I had an overhead and a bass drum mic. I ran out of preamps so I used my headphone amplifier as a pre on the bass drum. Each of the drum mics were recorded on to separate channels of a hi-fi stereo VCR hidden behind the drummer.
The vocals I just took from the board and patched in to my computer, which, at the time was only equiped with a Soundblaster Live card with 1/8" input.
After it was all done, I re-recorded and transfered all tracks on to my computer, where I edited and mixed everything. You can hear all the drunk people running around, but fortunately I was able to edit the part where the overhead drum mic FELL ON TOP OF THE DRUMMER !
Enjoy!
I've been daring to share this one for quite some time. Before listening, I just wanted to warn potential listeners of a few things in order to put this in perspective.
The recording itself isn't what I would call "really good." However, the funny thing about this is how truly amazing it sounds, at least to me, given what I had to work with.
This was recorded last halloween at my apartment during what is my annual halloween bash. The band was a Fleetwood Mac cover band. Very HOT singer, by the way.
This was what I thought a kickass rendition of Sister of the Moon: http://www.nowhereradio.com/artists/5/1298/singles.shtml
At the time, I had very little to work with. Most of my decent equipment was packed up in boxes, as it had to moved around. You see, we had just had a flood in my normal studio space, so everything was sort of being "dried off."
Anyway, my buddie's band wondered if I'd record their performance at my party. All I had unpacked was a borrowed multitrack recorder which only allowed two tracks recorded at a time. This still left me with a lot more instruments/voices to try and record! So I improvised. Guitar and bass went through the multitrack's 2 inputs. . The guitar was miced with a 57 - no outboard preamp was available. I used a splitter on bass: One channel went out to his amp, and the other went to an art tube mp and then to the recorder's input.
For drums, I had an overhead and a bass drum mic. I ran out of preamps so I used my headphone amplifier as a pre on the bass drum. Each of the drum mics were recorded on to separate channels of a hi-fi stereo VCR hidden behind the drummer.
The vocals I just took from the board and patched in to my computer, which, at the time was only equiped with a Soundblaster Live card with 1/8" input.
After it was all done, I re-recorded and transfered all tracks on to my computer, where I edited and mixed everything. You can hear all the drunk people running around, but fortunately I was able to edit the part where the overhead drum mic FELL ON TOP OF THE DRUMMER !
Enjoy!
