Recording Live now with a horn section

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steppingonmars

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I'm recording a band with a horn section, not too experience with horns especially in a live in the studio scenario

There's an sax, not even sure if it's an alto or tenor and a trombone. I did a rehearsal recording for them and used a 57 on each, it came out pretty well considering drums, electric guitar are blaring away as well.

I'm thinking for the real recording of setting up a gobo between the horns and a gobo for the bass and guitar. I was thinking of putting a room mic for them either behind the horns or just beside them.

Just wondering about mics/mic placement for this scenereo or should I convince them to track later? They are more than competent enough as a band to play together and definately have a great vibe doing that so I'd rather sacrifice a little sound quality for the band to play together
 
It would be best to track the horns separately Just as you would the vocals reason being .... for if you need to punch in parts you won't be able to due to the bleed of the other instruments.






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They really want to do it live and I'd like to do it live too

I've got a gobo set up between the horns and the rest of the band, wondering about doing a ORTF stereo set up with sdc's a few feet in front of the horns, I'd have stereo separation and some control over the trumpet and sax level. Anyone done this set up?
 
Another old-school trick is to have the horn members face-off on either side of a figure-8 mic.
(Ribbons are a natural for this but a good LDC with fig.8 pattern works)

Horn players will usually give a BETTER PERFORMANCE if they can see each
other and play off each other's performance.

(I'm an old sax player....)
 
steppingonmars said:
They really want to do it live and I'd like to do it live too

I've got a gobo set up between the horns and the rest of the band, wondering about doing a ORTF stereo set up with sdc's a few feet in front of the horns, I'd have stereo separation and some control over the trumpet and sax level. Anyone done this set up?
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Is it just trumpet and sax?

If so, give them a mike each.

If the band wants to record live, then let them record live.

I would not worry too much about bleed. It's part of the performance.
 
Well we finished the session. Tried the SDC's, the producer thought they were a little too distant for the type of music so I ended up using a 57 on the trombone and the sax player used a clip on mic which worked great. They're happy with the sound so I guess that's what counts. I had them behind a gobo which was enough separation to do punch ins and overdubs after

I might have 2 other jobs from this one so I guess it's a good enough choice.
 
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