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Borrow one of those little portable recorders and get them in close, otherwise an iphone may do a good job in the same spot.

So, why do you need new mics? What's wrong about your AT's? Unless you are dead set to throw money out of the window I would really try to pinch down what I dislike about the stuff I have or what need I have to tackle, before buying new stuff. Just my two cents.

Not with a piezo. Electric PUs for the double bass are not very common.

You could try something like this. I used a contraption like this once or twice and the results were usable.

Do you possibly get clipping anywhere in your recording chain?

You can download a file with LF sine waves at Mike Seniors page: Mixing Secrets For The Small Studio: Additional Resources (Cambridge Music Technology) They all should be equally loud if your monitoring is fine.

awkgreen, it seems from the distance that you get buzzing from bad technique. If that should be the case, then a fretless will make things worse. If you just happen to lust for a fretless, then go for it, by all means, but it will make bass playing a lot harder than just playing a fretted bass...

This will unavoidably mess with the mono-compatibility of your mix. I had good results with giving the guitar a stereo reverb and the voice a mono verb. You can add a tad of fairy dust to the guitar by sending slightly detuned copies (100% wet, one up, one down) of the guitar signal hard panned...

...just to ask, how are you monitoring? Got that problem with headphones, too? Room modes can severely kick your bass perception off kilter...

Why do you need a condenser?

Wow. Anyways. Many small a capella groups I know use hand held mics live and know how to work them. If this is the case you can go for hand held mics to minimize the room early reflections and reverberation while you track, if your room is not so great. Treating the quartet as a single source...

Most of the atmosphere and quality of that recording is in the texture of the guitars and the voices. If your musicians don't deliver up to par there's nothing you can do. Main guitar is stereo and has some short room on it, as your hear after the finger squeaking, that might be room mics. The...

I remember reading an article on vai.com years ago, where he talked in length about finding good mimics and gestures for certain riffs and licks and practicing them in front of a mirror, so yes, this stuff is surely kinda "choreographed". But I really get to love this, sure, it looks completely...

Are they used to sing with mics? Do they use mics live? Do they have good mic technique? In this case I would possibly consider renting great live vocal mics and let them perform as they are used to.

Hey adaM, thanks for you chiming in here, your vlogs are fun videos to watch! Keep up the good work!

How does it sound?

Hey BlackSquire, try everything and listen yourself! Different rooms, different mics, different placements make huge differences. And different tunes and arrangements call for different approaches. So, learn what your gear does and when to use what for the best results!

I'm monitoring without a sub, on small ported monitors, in a room with objectionable acoustics, so for low end evaluation I go with open AKG headphones which I know very well. Will do, sir, thanks for your input. editing this goes pretty slow, as there is soo much to clean up, so I will...

Hey guys, thanks for your answer so far. Rerecording is not an option here, as the bassist simply is not uber tight. Won't get any better. But I don't think phase does not matter here, I mean if I align a transient that goes 'up' first with another transient that goes 'down' first, I loose a...

Hello everyone, first posting in ere, so go easy on me. I have a maybe stupid question, right now I'm mixing a track that needs very heavy bass editing, as the bass does not lock at all with the drums. So, I am getting into editing territory for the first time. When editing that stuff, I use...