Taking the old girl out to the gig Friday

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Ain't she purdy? I take her out maybe 3-4 times a year to do some live recording of my band. Always does a great job :)
 

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Jim Lad said:
She's a doll, alright!
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thanks Jim. Can you believe somebody was going to toss it in the dumpster?I was doing some side work for a friend several years ago, he was doing some remodeling work and I was hired to clean out a storage room that he was converting into a breakfast nook or something like that. The lady that owned the house said " just throw everything left in the storage room in the dumpster". Like hell!!

Got a decent set of golf clubs too :)
 
Lance Lawson said:
I still love my RTR!

Beautiful ! I have a 3300 that was given to me a while back but it needs some work before it will run. With all the digital stuff I have, the adat HD 24 and the daw and all, I still love to break out the old tape decks and play with them.
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What kind of band? How do you set up for 4-track recording?
 
leddy said:
What kind of band? How do you set up for 4-track recording?
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Mostly classic rock with a little blues mixed in, Allman Bros, The Band, some Beatles etc.

Last time I had it out I took my little Mackie 1202 mixer. I ran a couple of LD condensors on either side of the stage up high, a 421 sennheiser down low in the middle of the stage, each on their own track. Then I took the output from the pa head which has just the vocals and sax mic and ran it onto the 4th track. It came out pretty decent considering it only took about 30 min to set it up.
 
gtrman_66 said:
Mostly classic rock with a little blues mixed in, Allman Bros, The Band, some Beatles etc.

Last time I had it out I took my little Mackie 1202 mixer. I ran a couple of LD condensors on either side of the stage up high, a 421 sennheiser down low in the middle of the stage, each on their own track. Then I took the output from the pa head which has just the vocals and sax mic and ran it onto the 4th track. It came out pretty decent considering it only took about 30 min to set it up.
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Cool. That's what I would do. A stereo pair plus a patch from the board, or maybe just bass and vocal on 3&4 depending on how many instruments in total.
 
leddy said:
Cool. That's what I would do. A stereo pair plus a patch from the board, or maybe just bass and vocal on 3&4 depending on how many instruments in total.
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Exactly, keeping it simple works for the type of recording I'm doing. It's mostly for updating our demos, posting new stuff to the band myspace page and handing out gig cds to our most loyal fans etc. It's very obviously live which is good when we go to book a gig somewhere, the venue owner knows we didn't slick it up in a studio somewhere, it's "what you hear is what you get".

I took the HD24 out and ran individual tracks for everything and yeah, it sounded better, but damn, it took all day long to set up.

We have 5 pieces, our front man sings and plays sax and keys, 2 guitars, bass and drums. 4 of us sing so the mixer head usually has just vocals and sax. The drummer has another little mixer head and a small PA cab that he mics his drums independently with. It sits next to the bass amp so I put the 421 on a little stand at the front of the stage pretty much in between the bass and drum cabs and then try to find the best compromise position for the left/right mics while keeping them "drunk proof" lol
 
Ha, found something I recorded with it last time out...I'm glad I ordered some new tape, that recycled stuff I was using was wearing a little thin :laughings:

 
Great tunes and great job of them!

It's great how the kick sounds. Nice and punchy! It always sounds like that with the TEACs. Love it.
 
SteveM said:
Great tunes and great job of them!

It's great how the kick sounds. Nice and punchy! It always sounds like that with the TEACs. Love it.
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Thanks Steve.

I notice the same thing with the kick and the bass guitar too. When I'm recording digital it always seems like I wind up having to muck around with some compression and eq to try and get it do do what the old tape machine does by itself.I love the low end on analog tape :D
 
gtrman_66 said:
Thanks Steve.

I notice the same thing with the kick and the bass guitar too. When I'm recording digital it always seems like I wind up having to muck around with some compression and eq to try and get it do do what the old tape machine does by itself.I love the low end on analog tape :D
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Funny with digital and bass. One of the clubs I play at uses one of those bose digital systems. Though I like the clarity on the vocals the bass on it doesn't quit. You can't cut it all the way back because it will sound like shit but you leave it up a little and it sounds like a 2 ton magnet. :D ..... hard to explain but it doesn't sound natural.
 
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