mister fingers
New member
hello all. i am a jazz musician and wish to record some stuff with a trio of mine (piano, upright bass, drums). well actually, we allready gave recording a shot and were largely unsatisfied. so, i've come to you pros for help.
since i have the grand piano, my place would be the site for recording. it is a large space with all wooden floors and a raised 'cathedral' ceiling - very live acoustically. my friend had i believe a Alesis MultiMix 8USB (i will double check) hooked up to a computer. we had five mics at our disposable, nothing special (i will also try to find out exactly what). however, we were limited to the use of only four becuase only four xlr inputs were available. a great bass sound was recording using a mic and going direct input from the bass's pickup. the piano sounded decent (using two mics placed inside the open piano) but could be better. the drums seemed the worst, using only the one overhead mic.
my questions are these:
what mic placement can i use to achieve better piano results?
how can i get a better drum recording?
is there a way to use more mics using the alesis?
how can i record seperate tracks to the computer so it can be mixed rather than having just one track?
ANY help would be greatly appreciated. i do have the "final" product of our first "sesion" that ill hope to get up for you to hear. thanks!
since i have the grand piano, my place would be the site for recording. it is a large space with all wooden floors and a raised 'cathedral' ceiling - very live acoustically. my friend had i believe a Alesis MultiMix 8USB (i will double check) hooked up to a computer. we had five mics at our disposable, nothing special (i will also try to find out exactly what). however, we were limited to the use of only four becuase only four xlr inputs were available. a great bass sound was recording using a mic and going direct input from the bass's pickup. the piano sounded decent (using two mics placed inside the open piano) but could be better. the drums seemed the worst, using only the one overhead mic.
my questions are these:
what mic placement can i use to achieve better piano results?
how can i get a better drum recording?
is there a way to use more mics using the alesis?
how can i record seperate tracks to the computer so it can be mixed rather than having just one track?
ANY help would be greatly appreciated. i do have the "final" product of our first "sesion" that ill hope to get up for you to hear. thanks!