Another quesion, about headphones.

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How can you get more than one head phone out? So, Im planning on getting the Alesis Multi8USB within the next week, and, If I want to do some recording with the whole band simultaneously, how can we all have a headphone monitor? Do you have to get one of those headphone amps?

Thanks!
 
Yes, you would need a 4 way or 8 way headphone amplifier.
 
In my experience, making the whole band wear headphones if they're not used to wearing headphones creates more problems than it solves.

If it's a brand new mixer set it up just to capture the instruments and plan to play as you would normally in practice, then decide from listening to the recordings if you want to change anything.

The Alesis USB series have mutiple microphone inputs but mix them down to stereo --- two tracks --- for recording, so it will take a number of tries before you get a balance that you like.


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ya, I understand that, I wish I had enough money for the firewire version, but oh well..


So, you reccomend not wearing headphones? How would this work if you were to go direct with the bass? Or if you didnt want to record simultaneously?

Thanks!
 
If you don't want to record simultaneously you wouldn't need multiple pairs of headphones.

Try setting up just like you practice and micing the instruments right where they are --- drums and bass and everything. Then try a few mixes on a few different days and see if you don't get something that's good quality.

Bands nest into their practice spaces and adjust their instrument volumes to each other. You would be dragging that apart and trying to put it back together if you each recorded separately.

Keep in mind that this is a time to experiment --- put the 'wrong' microphone on the kick drum and you might just find that you like it better than the 'right' mic, for example...

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ic, thanks for that advice

What would you do about levels then? Usually you dont record an amp at the same level you practice (for some reason, we practice pretty loud...)
 
Just turn the channel down on the mixer.

A dynamic mic like a Shure SM57 can take a whole lotta level before folding up --- and you'll know when you're folding up the mic because the resulting waveform will be clipped and the sound will be distorted - and not in a good way.

And in my experience you DO record an amp at the same level you practice, unless you can't get it to sound good after a dozen or so tries. Try micing the side of the speaker and angling the mic to about a 45 degree angle when you're dealing with a guitar, and when micing a bass amp it depends on the sound and style of the player.

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