Mayday

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This is a recording I made of my son's band, live (with an audience) in the basement.

It was recorded on a Tascam DP-02CF Portastudio, which means I only had two inputs to work with. I also had some other equitment limitations.

I had two small condensor mics on the drums, one in front of the bass and the other pointing at the drummer just above tom level. I had an SM58 on the bass cab and another one pointing between the two guitar cabs (which were next to each other). This all went through a mixer into one of the Portastudio inputs. For the vocals I had two other dynamic mics going through the PA (Mackie powered mixer into passive speakers) and fed the line output of the powered mixer into the other input.

I transferred the two .wav files into my laptop and mixed and mastered using Reaper. I used Alesis M1 Active 520USB studio monitors (which contain an interface).

www.myspace.com/larrykolker "GodTiny Mayday"
 
Sorry but it sounds weird.. :( Because the vocals are on other channel and guitar on other. I might be able to see what you were trying to achieve, but Im not really sure it works. It doesn't sound live, because I've never seen a singer perform in the other side of the stage all the time. Also I guess the frequency content is very different on both channels, which is kind of annoying too.

Ok, panning both guitar and vocal close to the center might produce of lot of difficult masking issues, but I still don't think this is the best way to solve it. To me it just doesn't sound good.
 
Don't worry about hurting my feelings; it's pretty much an experiment. The tracks are both panned out about 55%, and there was sound coming through the vocal mics as well, so for clarity I did want the separation...
 
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