Recording our basement sessions...

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Hi to all,

My first post…thanks to everyone for making so much great information available!

I have been playing and recording music in my basement with my friends for a quite a few years now with mixed results. For recording, I am now running everything through a Kustom Profile One PA to a computer running Audacity. The upside is, we can hit start and let it run all evening. The downside is, on the recording, the vocals are usually WAY TOO LOUD.

I have one hanging mic about a foot off the floor picking up the instrument amps and the drums. If no one is singing, it gets a pretty good balance of the sound in the room, including the drum kit. When we mix the vocal through the PA and it’s at the right level to hear in the room, it’s WAY TOO LOUD on the recording…or maybe the rest of the mix is way too quiet. We try to compensate by turning the instrument mic all the way up, the vocal mic down and running the playback volume on the PA as high as we can without feeding back to get the room sound we want. I am using Shure PG-48 mics on everything.

I would love to hear what others are doing for room sound/recording and would love to hear any suggestions on how I can improve my recordings…a different mic on the instruments perhaps?

Thanks in advance!
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[suprstar]

Sounds like you can record 2 channels at a time right? Pan your instruments all the way to the right, vox all the way to the left. Once they're in your DAW, you can pan em center and mix those 2 channels to taste. IDK what else you could do with your existing gear.

 

[blankrecords]

Thanks Suprstar!

I'll have to give that a try on Thursday night when we get together to practice!

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