my studio setup and a few questions

[calmlikeabom]

ok heres what i got



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Each carpeted rehearsal room has double 5/8 sheetrock on both sides of the common walls, fiberglass batt insulation, and one inch of bonded sound board on three walls. This means there is a 7 3/4" wall between you and any other rehearsal room!! High ceilings make even our smaller rooms feel big, and provide you with the proper ambience you need.
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the room is about 15 X15 or 15X16... high open cealings..
http://www.markporter.net/Blackoutband/studio.gif

i have one SM57 some EV mic. and a instrument mic that will snap on to any drum.


i just need some ideas as far as how i should record in this room

 

[calmlikeabom]

37 views and no one has a single idea?

 

[Midlandmorgan]

Real hard to tell what you are asking...

First off, you will most likely want to get the microwave outta there...microwave = food = disaster for electronic equipment.

Then you may want to think about what kind of sound are you trying to get...From what I have seen, its gonna be pretty much next to impossible to get anything usable with just 3 or so mics...unless you put one on the kick and use 2 overheads...

If your tape machine is just that, then you will need a means of amplifying your mic signals into something the tape machine can detect.. of course if the tape machine is a porta-studio type gizmo, then you are all set...

Gobos would work well there from what I can see...4-5 ft partitions that separate amps and drums from each other...

 

[frederic]

37 views and no one has a single idea?

Waaaah, waaaaah, no one's solved my problem!

*sigh*

Anyway, the method in which you should record in a room like this is simple, since its all mushed together.

Record the band playing together, put one mic in the center of the room, record everything combined to one track.

Rewind.

Pump that recording through the drummer's headset, and record his/her drums through a pair of stereo mics, to two tracks, using the VU meters on your board and recorder as a guide. Have the monitors off, and the engineer's headset disconnected, so you have absolutely no feedback.

Rewind.

Play both the drummer's new track with a little less of the original mono track into the bass players, then the guitarist's headphones, still, recording everything dry, EQ neutral, using the VU meters.

Continue until the rest of the band is done.

Then, you have a track-seperated recording of each instrument/player, then mix with EQ, outboards, etc, using the monitors.

Good luck.

 

[foreverain4]

is this a live album? i noticed the fan in the corner. (oh my, this is the second bad joke that i have posted today)



on a more serious "note". just do what was mentioned previously. this is the best way to to acheive maximum separation in a one room studio. can your drummer play with a click track? it may be benificial to lay this down on one of your tracks first.