starbuck26
New member
Hey Guys...
I've been doing a lot of live recording lately, and when recording a live band (while I'm playing in it) becomes fairly complicated. I find I usually wind up trying to walk myself through all of these separate gain stages and wondering if any of you had a technique or approach to dealing with it.
So, the drums go straight into a mixer, and use the preamps there. The guitar usually goes through a Presonus preamp, and the vocals through an ART tube pre. I send everything out of my mixer into a Fostex MR-8. So, with respect to guitars and vocals, they're essentially traveling through three separate gain stages. First pre-amp, mixer, and then the internal preamp on the MR-8. Couple this with the problem of recording on location with headphones instead of monitors and....... clipping, somewhere, sometime. I don't hear it when I'm recording, but I hear it later. And it drives me insane.
The question is two fold. How do I chase this out in the original mix... and, since I'm in the market for a new multitrack recorder... is there one on the market where I can bypass the built-in pres? I would much rather use a dedicated pre--I'm starting a small collection--for each channel.
Perhaps I am overthinking it....
Cheers.
I've been doing a lot of live recording lately, and when recording a live band (while I'm playing in it) becomes fairly complicated. I find I usually wind up trying to walk myself through all of these separate gain stages and wondering if any of you had a technique or approach to dealing with it.
So, the drums go straight into a mixer, and use the preamps there. The guitar usually goes through a Presonus preamp, and the vocals through an ART tube pre. I send everything out of my mixer into a Fostex MR-8. So, with respect to guitars and vocals, they're essentially traveling through three separate gain stages. First pre-amp, mixer, and then the internal preamp on the MR-8. Couple this with the problem of recording on location with headphones instead of monitors and....... clipping, somewhere, sometime. I don't hear it when I'm recording, but I hear it later. And it drives me insane.
The question is two fold. How do I chase this out in the original mix... and, since I'm in the market for a new multitrack recorder... is there one on the market where I can bypass the built-in pres? I would much rather use a dedicated pre--I'm starting a small collection--for each channel.
Perhaps I am overthinking it....
Cheers.