Is this insane? May post result.

[oldskooldave]

Had an idea, basically my zoom h2 and me in a room with my band, amps set up for guitar and bass and drums just being played loud acoustically, then me with the h2 on a makeshift mic stand (normal mic stand with h2 duct taped onto it) singing more or less directly into the left side, while the band plays into the right side


(id be facing the band and the band would be pointing towards me, if you get what i mean Band > H2 < Me

 

[SouthSIDE Glen]

No, it's not insane. A band I worked with a couple of years ago hung a pocket portable recorder inside a little fishnet bag from the mic stand of the lead singer and recorded a couple of live gigs that way, except no L/R separation between vocal and band, they just recorded straight on. The results, while certainly not the absolute highest in quality, were actually quite good considering the circumstances. Try it out; it may work Ok for you, it may not.

G.

 

[grimtraveller]

It sounds like some of the Beatles early stereo records, vocals in one channel, instruments in the other. The 1965 British version of "Rubber Soul" springs to mind. I remember when I was learning bass, I lived in the same house as this Welsh guitarist and when he and I would jam {well, he would ! I'd be fumbling about !!} I'd record it on my tape deck, me DI'd into one mike channel, him miked into the other. I did the same with my drummer pal too. So you get total separation, yet, listening in a room or on phones, the whole was strangely cohesive.
To be honest, I've never been opposed to unusual panning {unusual by post 1960s standards} occasionally. I grew up listening to records like that. I kind of like it.