The lead singer in my 4-piece band doesn't like recording track-by-track, so we're going to try to record "live", with all of us playing simultaneously. To avoid issues associated with room acoustics and insufficient mics, we plan to go direct into a multitrack recorder, while tracking each other through headphones. We'll be using a Rolls RA53b headphone amp which accepts up to 4 different signals, so that each of us can hear a different "more me" mix. The question is, how do we generate those individual mixes? Am I right in supposing that we need a multitrack (or a mixer connected to the multitrack) which has aux sends on each channel, and at least 4 separate buses? Do mixers/multitracks with these features allow you to send varying amounts of each channel's signal to each of the 4 buses, so that at each bus there's a different mix?
Will we need additional or different capabilities in the mixer section in order to do this? Does anyone make a multitrack with that kind of feature set? Many thanks in advance for any advice!
Will we need additional or different capabilities in the mixer section in order to do this? Does anyone make a multitrack with that kind of feature set? Many thanks in advance for any advice!