Recording a 3-piece Dance Band

[nickb1]

What is the best way to record a 3-piece dance band................... keyboard player with amps and speaker, sax, and drums. I intend to use 3 mics, one for each instrument. I was thinking.... 1 mic about 3-4 feet from the keyboard speaker, 1 mic right up close to the bell of the sax, and 1 mic overhead to catch the drums. Suggestions please. Thanks in advance.

 

[Dogbreath]

What is the best way to record a 3-piece dance band................... keyboard player with amps and speaker, sax, and drums. I intend to use 3 mics, one for each instrument. I was thinking.... 1 mic about 3-4 feet from the keyboard speaker, 1 mic right up close to the bell of the sax, and 1 mic overhead to catch the drums. Suggestions please. Thanks in advance.

How's your room?
The reason I ask is that our band recently recorded a few tunes with a mono mic set up in the middle of the room and it came out fairly decent.
My room is treated with traps and diffusors so that made a big difference.

Our next jam, we're gonna use three mics cuz we found the drums and bass came thru great with the mono but guitars and vocals were a little buried. So we'll add the 2 mics and tweak the placement.

So.....what if you just set up your stereo pair as overheads for your drums, add the third to the kick for definition and position the key amp and the sax around the drums to where you'll get a live mix on the fly.
Grab your headphones and experiment around. You may not need any close micing at all.

food for thought man.

 

[GazEcc]

I say overdub it lay down the keys as a scratch track, then do drums, the real keys then sax

Drums, 2 overheads and a kick mic, sax about 1-2 ft from the bell, keys to di box (if you got one) and one amp signal and one di leaves you with what 8 tracks to mess with and get it nice sounding?