Live recording room

[strattx]

I have a fairly good area for home recording. Looking for information as too room set-up for full band recording. Is it necessary to have seperated floor to ceiling areas or can drums, guitar amps, horns & vocals be seperated by individual partial wall partitions?

 

[baker_]

wall partitions should be fine.
as long as the musicians have enough space, and they can see each other you should be ok.

As the engineer you'll have to be conscious of the miking and leakage that will most likely happen from instrument to instrument.

Have fun.

 

[Dani Pace]

Partitions (gobos) will help to get some seperation but not total seperation. Space or seperate rooms (at least amps in seperate rooms) is the only way to get much seperation when recording a whole band. Close micing will help if the band is playing at pretty low volume. A good sounding room is critical to getting a decent recording as room ambience is part of the overall sound you will be recording. Sometimes the bleedover can work to your advantage when trying to get a more "live" sound. The main drawback to all at once recording is the band has to be very tight with their sound. Mistakes mean starting over, there isn't much you can do to cover mistakes on live or all at once recordings without taking something away from the recording. Once it's tracked, thats what you've got to work with so everyone has to get their part right or start over.