crayola-gram of proposed setup

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Tell me what part of this is stupid, if not the whole basic idea. I'm gearing up to record - we have two rooms and bass and guitar will be separated by a couch and other random materials. The main mics will be a behringer b-2 pro/mxl 604 on drums (with individual drum mics), ES-57 on guitar (sm57 knockoff and also guitar overdubbed to stereo), and direct out and/or mxl 990 on bass guitar.

I have a feeling someone will tell me to scrap everything, get a single nice preamp, and record the whole band live but I want the fun and versatility of this kind of separation. Any comments, ideas, suggestions, predictions?

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One option you might want to consider would be to DI the bass, and put him in the same room as the drums, if there's room. Running the bass direct - which is fairly common - would eliminate the worry of bleed from drums and also isolate the guitar in the seperate room. But even more important (sometimes) is that as the bass and drums are the core of the rhythm section, sometimes the players like to be in eye communication with each other, providing a tighter groove.

Just one thought/option.

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We'll definitely all be in the same room, that's what the headphone amp is all about, in the upper right. But the bass amp we have doesn't have direct out so I'm not sure how we'll do it yet.
 
Plug the bass guitar right into the recorder.
Shape sound when mixing.
 
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