Live Recording

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Sky Blue Lou

Sky Blue Lou

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Hi guys,

I'm looking for a hardware & software solution for recording my band live. My guitar mate and I both have home set-ups with M-Audio Omnistudio and an older version of Cubase but we are looking for something more portable that we can take outs from the board with a room mic or two for raw track capture and then dump into the home rigs for mixing. 8 ins and a firewire interface would be nice.On the software side something that could run more like a tape recorder with no pre-set song lengths and that would build the files as you go. If you are familiar with Cubase you know that you have to set the length before you hit the red button and it builds the files when you hit stop. Could be a major issue if you get a glitch in the middle of a 45 minute file-length building/saving process.

Cheaper will be quicker - quality is nice but top-notch is not essential.

Suggestions will be researched. Thanx for any input.


lou
 
Lou...

Do you have a sound man mixing your live show?

I used to record from a couple of aux sends on my FOH board(Midas Venice 320). I could either use grouped aux sends, or individual channels, or a combination. I recorded directly to CD using a Marantz CDR631 which worked wonderfully. It had a function to insert track marks between songs, but you have to have someone manning the board.

I had the direct outs of the mixer changed to pre-eq, pre-fader, post insert and now record to an Alesis HD24, then transfer them to a PC and remix with N-Tracks(btw, the 5.1 version is excellent).

If you have no sound man, you could try a small mixer, a couple mics and a mini-disc recorder.
 
We have a part-time sound man - the drummer's son. He's sharp enough to pay some attention to a recording rig but the main job is obviously the live mix. I'm looking to capture the raw tracks as clean as possible and dick with them later in the box. I'm thinking the 4 sub outs plus a room mic or two and maybe individual tracks for kick and bass. We can always overdub vocals and guitars and ditch the room tracks.

How much $ to get into what you're talking about and will it do what I want?

I've thought about the Firepod as well but don't know shit about them - yet.


lou
 
Lou...

Recording the tracks directly to a CD recorder cost me about $500 (425 for the recorder and 75 for the patch cords). The Alesis set up was quite a bit more - $1200 for the Alesis, another $100 for the patch snake. I already had the PC, just bought N-Tracks - $80.

But I think the results speak for themselves.
Here are a couple recorded to the HD24 and remixed, without overdubs or retakes - live performance -

Come Together

I Feel Fine
 
Good input Michael, thank you. I'll have to listen to the tunes later - no soundcard at work.


lou
 
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