pisces7378
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I am in a basically rock n roll band. No fancy, "post punk/vaudeville meets Ozzy Osbourne" discription. Just a rock n roll band. But we are limited in people. We have a drummer, a bassist, two guitars, and the two guitarists sing with each other trading off lead and back-up.
Now, I am the recording dork in the band. No one else knows their arsehole from their ear hole. So I have Logic Audio Platinum and the EXS24mkII as well as the Vintage collection of software inst. EVB3, EVP88, and the EVD6. They all sound great. In fact they sounded SO great that we decided to add in all kinds of organ parts, piano stuff, Rhodes and Whulityer stuff, and a fare amount of electronic drum sounds on the record we are recording.
Now, I HATE buying a record and then going to check out the band live and find that they used thousands of dollars worth of "studio magic", but their live show is pathetically un-representative of their studio stuff.
On the other hand, it is also strange to go see a rock band and there be four blokes on the stage but you hear a 64 piece symphony, a harmonica, and a greek chorus in the background.
Anyway, I am a subscriber to SOS and I have read about getting your backing tracks to the stage. But I was thinking about using my PC running Logic Audio with all the instruments. I have just never done it before. i do not want to take my machine all the way over to our practice space and risk it being distroyed en route, only to find that it is impossible.
Let's just say that I record two measures of metronome click track and keep the click track going the whole song.
Can anyone give me a worst case scenerio (realistically) that I should anticipate before we book shows with this configuration only to find it is full of holes.
The PC is:
Pent III 933 mHz
316 MB SDRAM
7200 rpm HDD
Windows XP Home
MOTU 828mkII FIrewire interface
Logic Audio Platinum v 5.x
We only need to run a couple of instances of EXS24mkII drums, maybe a few MIDI instances via my Roland JV 1010, and a couple of Software Instrument here and there. NEVER more than two or things running at once.
Should we burn the tracks to CD-R as audio and try to just play along with a CD somehow? That seems rediculasly hard, considering there would be no click track.
What do computer enhanced musicians like Britnay Spears, Radiohead, and the like do for their backing tracks. I just saw Radiohead in Atlanta a couple weeks ago and they have more goodies on stage than most music stores.
ANY help would be considered GOLD!
Mike
Now, I am the recording dork in the band. No one else knows their arsehole from their ear hole. So I have Logic Audio Platinum and the EXS24mkII as well as the Vintage collection of software inst. EVB3, EVP88, and the EVD6. They all sound great. In fact they sounded SO great that we decided to add in all kinds of organ parts, piano stuff, Rhodes and Whulityer stuff, and a fare amount of electronic drum sounds on the record we are recording.
Now, I HATE buying a record and then going to check out the band live and find that they used thousands of dollars worth of "studio magic", but their live show is pathetically un-representative of their studio stuff.
On the other hand, it is also strange to go see a rock band and there be four blokes on the stage but you hear a 64 piece symphony, a harmonica, and a greek chorus in the background.
Anyway, I am a subscriber to SOS and I have read about getting your backing tracks to the stage. But I was thinking about using my PC running Logic Audio with all the instruments. I have just never done it before. i do not want to take my machine all the way over to our practice space and risk it being distroyed en route, only to find that it is impossible.
Let's just say that I record two measures of metronome click track and keep the click track going the whole song.
Can anyone give me a worst case scenerio (realistically) that I should anticipate before we book shows with this configuration only to find it is full of holes.
The PC is:
Pent III 933 mHz
316 MB SDRAM
7200 rpm HDD
Windows XP Home
MOTU 828mkII FIrewire interface
Logic Audio Platinum v 5.x
We only need to run a couple of instances of EXS24mkII drums, maybe a few MIDI instances via my Roland JV 1010, and a couple of Software Instrument here and there. NEVER more than two or things running at once.
Should we burn the tracks to CD-R as audio and try to just play along with a CD somehow? That seems rediculasly hard, considering there would be no click track.
What do computer enhanced musicians like Britnay Spears, Radiohead, and the like do for their backing tracks. I just saw Radiohead in Atlanta a couple weeks ago and they have more goodies on stage than most music stores.
ANY help would be considered GOLD!
Mike