In Desperate Need of Help/Advice!!!

[Fry17]

hello all!

Iam looking for some microphones to help me record some rock bands. Mainly consisting of 2 guitars,a bass guitar, Vocals and a drum Kit. I came on her cause i can see you are all well educated in this where as i am new and im guessing so was the clerk at the guitar shop . Anyway i need to keep my budget low so i was thinking of getting 2 SM57's, 1 for the snare and 1 for the kick drum, and then having 2 overhead condensers to pick up the cymbals. IS THIS A GOOD IDEA? and also i need help on choosing the condensers i was thinking of going with Samson CO1 as it is in my price boundary? IS THIS A GOOD IDEA? if not can you tell me some good quality condensers you recomend within a price of about 150 pounds. Id also like to hear your sugestions for how to record drums? (cheers) For the 2 guitars and bass i planned to mic up the amps with SM57's is this a good idea? if not please help!!! and for vocals i planned to use one of the condensers i planned to use for the overhead drums. Please help iam new to this an need some help and ideas asap. thankyou very much i hope you can helo

Jon

 

[chessrock]

This guitar shop you refer to . . .

Do the rent any gear out, by chance?

 

[Fry17]

i dont think so... they just had a small separate audio store which i went into the guy didnt really know much about it, any ideas?

 

[mshilarious]

hello all!

Iam looking for some microphones to help me record some rock bands. Mainly consisting of 2 guitars,a bass guitar, Vocals and a drum Kit. I came on her cause i can see you are all well educated in this where as i am new and im guessing so was the clerk at the guitar shop . Anyway i need to keep my budget low so i was thinking of getting 2 SM57's, 1 for the snare and 1 for the kick drum, and then having 2 overhead condensers to pick up the cymbals. IS THIS A GOOD IDEA? and also i need help on choosing the condensers i was thinking of going with Samson CO1 as it is in my price boundary? IS THIS A GOOD IDEA? if not can you tell me some good quality condensers you recomend within a price of about 150 pounds. Id also like to hear your sugestions for how to record drums? (cheers) For the 2 guitars and bass i planned to mic up the amps with SM57's is this a good idea? if not please help!!! and for vocals i planned to use one of the condensers i planned to use for the overhead drums. Please help iam new to this an need some help and ideas asap. thankyou very much i hope you can helo

Jon

Try searching this board for drum mics, we've had a lot of threads on this. Generally I'd recommend 1 SM57 and another mic specifically designed for kick, like a Beta 52 or the AKG D112. Those two mics will work on guitar & bass cabs too (respectively). You'll get a lot of recommendations on condensers on old threads. You should be able to manage the condensers within your budget, although the snare & kick mics are gonna be another 150-200 pounds or so.

 

[Fry17]

cheers, with these kinda mics rigged up to drums and the cabs will it prevent any hiss? if not how do i minimalise hiss/feedback? and also i was thinking of running the mics into my recorder (BOSS BR 864) but unfortunately it only has 2 mic inputs and one jack to jack input so i was thinking of getting a small mixer most probably the Behringer UB1202 and then having the mics run into the mixer then into the the BOSS BR 864 is this good? thanks very much.

 

[Rev E]

...i was thinking of getting a small mixer most probably the Behringer UB1202 and then having the mics run into the mixer then into the the BOSS BR 864 is this good?

That should work out fine with the submixing. You may want to get a different recorder in the future so that you can get each signal on a separate channel. You'll have more control this way, but in a pinch what you described should work out just fine. Although, I think you may have to increase the budget on those mics a bit so that you're not getting a whole bunch of worthless junk that you'll want to upgrade from 3 months from now when you know better.

A great mic is always worth its asking price.