Quick question on Lowz and high z inputs

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Hey all,
Here is a quick question for everyone. Is it ok to hook up a low z and high z mic into the same channel? We have a four piece band and an 8 channel mixer. I am just trying to figure out a way to add more channels so we can mic drums more effectively. I was thinking we could run and instrument mic and a vocal mic to the same channel? Is this ok?
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Fenderdude
 
two mics in one channel will sound like dirty butt. hi-z mic into a line input will likely sound equally buttish (if that's what you were thinking). get a hi z to low z converter for the hi z mic. tell the bass player that he can be in the next recording but he's gonna have to sit this one out. :D
 
No. Even if you could do that how would you control the volume of the two seperate signals.
 
LOL
I was thinking running one of the guitar amps direct (line out) and a vocal low z mic (for backup vocals) would that work?
 
The line out of the guitar will sound like crap anyway. You could always get one of those small, cheap behringer mixers just for the drums. Then take the output of that mixer into two channels of the 8 channel mixer. That leaves you 6 channels for guitar, bass and vocal.
 
fenderdude said:
LOL
I was thinking running one of the guitar amps direct (line out) and a vocal low z mic (for backup vocals) would that work?
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to the same channel? no. if you have stereo channels on your board they are likely line inputs. mics to line inputs is'nt allowed. :p

can you record things separately? say the drums and bass in one take and the guitar and vocal in another.

Farview's right. Amp line out's always sound like shit. They can be used in a pinch for live stuff. I would'nt even think about using a guitar amp line out for recording.
 
I was thinking more for live applications. I also had thought about running a small external mixer to all the drum mics and into the main board. Why would it need to be two channels though? For stereo?
 
fenderdude said:
I was thinking more for live applications. I also had thought about running a small external mixer to all the drum mics and into the main board. Why would it need to be two channels though? For stereo?
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you would mic up and mix your drums on the sub mixer and send the stereo outs to your main mixer..........so that you're only using two tracks for drums.
 
TravisinFlorida said:
you would mic up and mix your drums on the sub mixer and send the stereo outs to your main mixer..........so that you're only using two tracks for drums.
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Ok got it. So preamp line outs from guitar amps usually sound like crap? So your saying it is better to mic amps? Don't you get a lot of the ambient noise that way? (picking up drums etc)
 
if you're using something like a sm57 on a guitar amp, the amount of bleed from the drums into that mic should'nt be a problem.
 
Ok, I got a couple of those, I usually run a line out to the mixer and it seems to work fine...I have mic'd it before and it sounds good also, I just noticed it seems to pick up a lot of drums/cuss words/beers falling over etc. :D
 
FWIW, unless you are running a couple thousand watts for your PA, it isn't worth micing everything up.
 
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