I wanna hear some live recordings

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That's pretty good. Ambitious harmonies and you guys pull it off.
 
Not exactly live and quite old now (4 years ago). Just something we recorded for a demo. Guitars just going through amps and the vocals through one PA cab. All recorded through a single Oktava MK219.

 
Track Rat said:
Believe it or don't, the bass player is a guy named Greg Edick. He has toured with a lot of folks that you probably have records by. Chuck Berry to Rory Gallagher.
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Nothing negative about his playing...I was just kidding about that look...and yeah, I guess he has been around awhile. :)
How did he end up with your guys...I mean, how do you hook up with him?
 
James K said:
Not exactly live and quite old now (4 years ago). Just something we recorded for a demo. Guitars just going through amps and the vocals through one PA cab. All recorded through a single Oktava MK219.

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One mic? Any post production, that's pretty good.
 
mjbphotos said:
Audio was captured direct from the board to a digital recorder (separate tracks). Don't know gear, it was the tall guy with the glasses' stuff.
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Do you always play without a drummer with that lineup?
Was that like a performance gig....I mean, it doesn't look like a bar/club gig.
 
James K said:
Not exactly live and quite old now (4 years ago). Just something we recorded for a demo. Guitars just going through amps and the vocals through one PA cab. All recorded through a single Oktava MK219.
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You guys showed some promise....have you stuck together and do you have anything current?
 
DM60 said:
One mic? Any post production, that's pretty good.
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Yeah, we just ran the mic straight into the camera. No processing.
miroslav said:
You guys showed some promise....have you stuck together and do you have anything current?
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Cheers. Yeah, we're still together. We haven't been playing around much the past couple of years as we've been at university but we've started playing more recently and we're finishing a new album. There are a couple of videos from a gig we played about a month ago but they're not on YouTube yet. I'll try and get them up. Someone else has got them.
 
miroslav said:
Do you always play without a drummer with that lineup?
Was that like a performance gig....I mean, it doesn't look like a bar/club gig.
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It's a once-a-year benefit for the church that hosts the coffeehouse there. We've got together for the last 3 years to do our part - we're just friends who do this once a year.
Here's one more from the last show.

 
About ten years ago. Recorded to a pair of DA-38s.

 
Probably eight years ago, Hi8 analog camera, onboard mic.

 
A little over a year ago. Recorded on HD24, mixed in my living room.

 
James K said:
Not exactly live and quite old now (4 years ago). Just something we recorded for a demo. Guitars just going through amps and the vocals through one PA cab. All recorded through a single Oktava MK219.

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Not bad at all, James.

Which one is you?
 
As soon as I get 10 posts and can link (and as soon as I get the samples uploaded), I'll see what I can throw in here from rehearsals from a polka band I play in.
 
moresound said:
Hey Soundguy from Boulder ... Am liking this one over the other two.
Not that the other are bad but, Deb sure can sing.
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And she can write. The bass player was in the first band I mixed, in 1993.

[Edit] Oh, and thanks. Where are my manners?
 
All the following are from rehearsals with the Traditional/Polka Italian music band I play bass with. We rehearse in the bandleader's basement in a rectangular room maybe 10'x18', but with low (7') ceilings. The setup is usually with the drumset halfway along one of the longer walls, a stack of amps (for bass, keyboards, and sometimes guitar) right next to him, and the accordion/button-box players in opposite corners.

The first recording (from ~2 years ago) was done with a Blue Snowflake USB mic into Audacity. I used the mic kind of like a room/omni, though I think it's actually got a cardio pattern. It was positioned partway between the drumset and the amps, but pointed back into the room.

La Playa

I did very little post-processing on that one.

The other recodings were done over the past year, with more gear (more "real" mics) and with much, much more post-processing (with a "real" DAW).

SM57's/58's/clones or amp-out -> 8 channel mixer -> AI -> Studio One

Gualio
Luciarosa
Molisanis

I did a whole lot of post-processing on those. The mixer had only stero out (which is "ok" since my AI has only 2 channels in), so I had to fake a lot of things out in the DAW to separate out some of the sounds. For example, splitting a channel into several with multiple sends, as well as using EQ to emphasize the role of a certain instruments (lots of low-cut for the accordion parts that were shared on the same channel as the bass).
 
moresound said:
Nice. I liked "so many words" as well.

Good to be able to put a face to the name ... Which one is you?
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I'm the drummer. Drums are my primary instrument. I also made a "live" album for our kickstarter backers. Just me putting mics up in our rehearsal studio and just us running through the songs, no editing or overdubs, but I don't have any of that uploaded, although the sound quality is much better and more like how we sound now.
 
Moresound: I'm on guitar and vocals.

(I tried quoting using my phone but failed miserably)
 
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