Live recording

[clothdeejay]

I have a live show to record in a couple of weeks at reasonable size venue.
The band consists of
4 Vocals 2 Main/2 backing though one of the backing singer sings main on 1 song only
2 guitars
1 bass
1 keyboard
and drums
(I know.....like an orchestra)
The sound engineer is using a mackie 16cfx

For recording I will be using my Yamaha aw16g which records 8 tracks simultaneous. I plan to use splitters from the sound engineers mics and bus the drums as I don't have enough inputs!
I'm now thinking of taking my laptop as well with my m audio pro to give me another couple of inputs and perhaps putting a couple of my condensors around the drums???
The probems I forsee would be syncing the tracks when I mix down and the laptop stuttering as it would be recording 1 hour of audio (this would be a disaster!!)

Any thoughts on this would be greatly appreciated
The band I'm recording are called Saint and the cynics www.myspace.com/saintandthecynics

 

[mixsit]

..The probems I forsee would be syncing the tracks when I mix down and the laptop stuttering as it would be recording 1 hour of audio (this would be a disaster!!)

Not knowing how well the drums are going to be covered by the live set-up, how much real benefit added by two more mics (modest stage conditions, loud stage, + floor monitors? what is the added potential anyway?)..
It could be (can't tell.. ) a lot of added work, stress, for iffy results?
Is that pretty much what you are asking?
Also, what about any routing/busing options at the FOH mixer for the vocals? Maybe you can squeeze a track or two from there.

 

[mjbphotos]

Better than splitting from the soundboard would be to take the (stereo?) output from the soundboard into two channels, split off the two main singers' mics into 2 channels, place 2 mics somewhere in the room (you'll need to adjust for delay when mixing) and the last 2 mics over/beside the drums.
If the soundboard guy is doing things correctly, you probably won't need to do more than add some ambiance to your mix from the room mics, otherwise you can bump the vocals and drum volumes up a bit, if needed.

 

[moresound]

I've gotten great live recordings from the Zoom H4n 2 inputs from the board and 2 mic in the room. If you need more info on this set up pm me I'll go into depth further.