zotz wrote: > > Does anyone here record a band live at gigs to seperate tracks? > Hi, I have done this a few times using an emi 6 | 2 USB card and a laptop. The problems I ran into were not really computer ones though - the biggest issue was separation between tracks. On a medium-sized stage, I had a saxophone and a guitar amp close-miked, and you really couldn't hear much difference between the signals from these and the stereo overheads on the drums - the drums just bled into everything! The one useful thing was having the keyboard and bass going in through DI units, giving them total separation from everything else. If I was going to do it again, I'd try to persuade the guitarist to split his signal and send some of it via a POD or similar direct to the sound card. Then I'd have an isolated signal to work on afterwards for that too. The best-sounding live recordings I've been involved in have been ones where we just used a crossed pair of mics in front of the band - after all, with that much bleed between tracks multitracking doesn't give you the opportunity to go back and correct mistakes, so assuming the room (and the band) sounds good, there's a lot to be said for just trying to capture that sound as faithfully as possible. Of course, if you've got mics and channels spare there would be no harm in taking isolated signals from bass and keys. Also might be an argument for putting a mic in the bass drum as well. The rest of the drum kit will be all over every channel, but the kick drum can easily end up needing reinforcement in a final mix. And of course if you're involved in the heavier end of music you can always use the kick drum channel to trigger a sample for that death metal 'click'. Best of luck! Howard -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Multitracking-a-band-live-at-a-gig-tf4953080.html#a14197945 Sent from the linux-audio-user mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
