Demo Recordings

[Vespae]

Hi, I'm a newbie here, my band are intending to record series of demos using a digital multi tracker, what I was intending to do was lay down some live guides in the rehearsal studio and overdub them individually, my question is, bearing in mind that sometimes the rough tracks you lay down as a guide can be the best you do, how can you minimse the bleed from other instruments into the mic in an open room? or should I just take it that the guide is purely that and will need to be overwritten

 

[Massive Master]

"Bleed" is "ambience" that sounds bad.

"Ambience" is "bleed" that sounds good.

If you can get a little control over your bleed, you can turn it into ambience.

If life hands you lemons...

 

[Vespae]

My biggest worry is the guitars bleeding into the drum mics, but then i guess if we get a good take on the drums but have to redo the guitars then the ambient noise may just serve to warm up the drum sound....... see, now I'm all optimistic, cheers

 

[futurestar]

To solve the bleed problem, you could also try doing scratch guitars first with a POD or V-Amp, then overdubbing the "real" tracks after.

 

[Flight 16]

why dont you just have guitar a bass play into the recording to a click....then record the drums on there own wht the drummer hearing the click and guitars.....then you have a drum track down and can record guitars and bass seporet as well...this way you can use your mics to get the best sound for each....still useing room ambiance but having way more control over it