Masterofnone
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I've got an oppertunity to become the sound guy for a friend's band that plays at venues state-wide, but honestly, I don't know how it's "really" done!
When I've done it before for some others, we've had to jury-rig the equiptment to get it do do what we needed (using the wrong stuff for the job ), and I just messed around until it sounded right. We were using a really big Mackie, a pair of Crown? 800w power amps, and some verry nice JBL PA/monitor speakers as that is what we had access to and all we were allowed to use.
So, I'm guessing the common practise is to mic the drums, DI the bass and mic the guitar amps? We've have never used seperate preamps, just what came with the equipment we were using. Is the use of seperate preamps a standard/often done thing? From what I've seen, just use an analog mixer?
This seems to be a better/more productive/cheaper route than starting off learning home recording as I had originally planned.
I'm sure I'll have more questions as I think of them, but this should get me started...thanks in advance.
--Kyle
When I've done it before for some others, we've had to jury-rig the equiptment to get it do do what we needed (using the wrong stuff for the job ), and I just messed around until it sounded right. We were using a really big Mackie, a pair of Crown? 800w power amps, and some verry nice JBL PA/monitor speakers as that is what we had access to and all we were allowed to use.
So, I'm guessing the common practise is to mic the drums, DI the bass and mic the guitar amps? We've have never used seperate preamps, just what came with the equipment we were using. Is the use of seperate preamps a standard/often done thing? From what I've seen, just use an analog mixer?
This seems to be a better/more productive/cheaper route than starting off learning home recording as I had originally planned.
I'm sure I'll have more questions as I think of them, but this should get me started...thanks in advance.
--Kyle