Live Recording

[BibleMan]

Hi.

I plan on making a live recording of our Church Band. We are already using a Mackie 24 channel board for Live sound, but recording off of that mix would stink as we have to compensate for ambient sound from the stage (live guitar amps, etc.).

Is there any "easy" way to tie another mixer into the existing snake feed from the stage? I could rent a board and do a recording mix from that.

Thanks.

 

[SolomonsRequest]

BibleMan (good name! )

If you tie into the snake that wouldnt solve your ambient noise thing would it? You would be getting the same signal. Why dont you just hook your tape machine to the send 1 and 2 (stereo) for example and then return it. Then you can control your mix to tape separately with the aux sends. Hook your effects unit in such a way that your reverb & delay etc. will go to tape at your dispense.

The only thing with this is it does require some trial and error time, as you'll have to listen to the tape and make adjustments.

Tell me what ya think! Peace, S/R

 

[Track Rat]

Splitting the snake would give you two problems. First is changing the impedence of the mics. Second, and more noticable is setting up a potential gound loop between the recording mixer and the live mixer.

 

[Havoc]

1: you could get a mic splitter for all your channels and go to the live board and the record board seperately from there. Some types of splitter isolate the 2 sends to avoid loops.
2: you could run seperate mics for live and record to seperate mixers (or record directly to stereo with a stereo mic setup)
3: you could use a recording mixer that has outputs of all the channels and run those to a second mixer/multitrack
4: same as above using the aux send/return of a mixer
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