Live Recordings...

[vandersavage]

if you could give me some pointers or some website links I'd appreciate it.
basically, my problem with traditional studio recordings (recording one instrument at a time then post mixing) is it doesn't quite capture the right feel or energy of the band when they play live...is there a certain method of recording live bands that keeps the mic bleeding to a minimum and the accoustics are still really clean and warm?

 

[Massive Master]

Gobos and aiming amps in other directions.

Ambience is leakage that sounds good.

Leakage is ambience that sounds bad.

 

[BigRay]

www.taperssection.com
www.gearslutz.com in the remote forum
www.3daudioinc.com/3db in the classical/location forum...

that is ALL those folks do...they are experts.

if you could give me some pointers or some website links I'd appreciate it.
basically, my problem with traditional studio recordings (recording one instrument at a time then post mixing) is it doesn't quite capture the right feel or energy of the band when they play live...is there a certain method of recording live bands that keeps the mic bleeding to a minimum and the accoustics are still really clean and warm?

 

[simpleybass]

What are gobos?

 

[phaqu]

Gobos are like small movable walls,that can diffuse and block sound, that are put up between the rhythm section to help avoid sound leakage to other mics, but still have the band in contact with each other. Amp placement (aiming away from each other and the drums)and mic choice can help. Putting a loud amp in another room has worked for me( if everyone is getting a live headphone mix,which they should). But ,sometimes,not all the time, that leakage kinda helps jell things a little.......sometimes.Tracking a live rhythm section will definately give a more real,fluid sound. If anything,the musicians can play off one another. I love recording/playing with a live rhythm.

 

[SouthSIDE Glen]

Ambience is leakage that sounds good.

Leakage is ambience that sounds bad.

That belongs in the "I Ching of Audio Engineering" Very nice.

G.

 

[Minion]

You could also have the Bass and Guitars going Directly into the Mixer and then have everyone wearing Headphones so they can hear the Live Mix that way there won"t be any Bleeding of Guitars to the Drums or the Drums to the Guitars....

The problem with this is you don"t get that raw sound of a Cranked Amp with Good Mic Placement but it works.....

Cheers

 

[Synkrotron]

You could also have the Bass and Guitars going Directly into the Mixer and then have everyone wearing Headphones so they can hear the Live Mix that way there won"t be any Bleeding of Guitars to the Drums or the Drums to the Guitars....

The problem with this is you don"t get that raw sound of a Cranked Amp with Good Mic Placement but it works.....

Cheers

yep... this is exactly what I do... and I use an electronic drum kit so I can DI that too...


I'm now working on a device that will let me DI the singer

 

[Farview]

yep... this is exactly what I do... and I use an electronic drum kit so I can DI that too...


I'm now working on a device that will let me DI the singer

I tried plugging a 1/4 instrument cable into my old singers throat. It didn't work, all I got was some gurgling sounds.

Come to think of it, I never saw him after that. I wonder what happened to him.