On Mon, 14 Jul 2008 12:10:40 +0200 Arnold Krille <arnold@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Am Montag, 14. Juli 2008 schrieb hollunder@xxxxxx: > > By whole band I mean a rather 'traditional' band setup with like, > > drums, bass, singer/s, 1-2 guitars, maybe keys. > > I would guess that 16 channels is plenty for that, except maybe > > when one wants to mic every single drum separately. > > His estimation was 16 channels minimum, it doesn't hurt if it's > > more. > > You should go for 24+ channels. A whole drumset is at least 8 > channels, if the keyboarder isn't recording the midi, there will be > additional 2-6 channels for keys. And recording the electric guitars > clean and through amp/effects doesn't hurt either. For acoustic > guitars it is good to use at least two mics at different distances > (provided that they play in their own acoustic booth, otherwise you > are pretty much fixed on the plugin-signal). And then you said > something about singers... > > The good thing about such a setup (for example with an rme-pci-card > and three adat-interfaces, or several ffado-supported firewire > interfaces) is that you get about the same number of outputs. So you > can create a lot monitor-mixes for the musicians headphones. > > Have fun, > > Arnold Thanks Arnold, I think it depends a lot on the recording technique, but I guess having a few spare channels doesn't hurt. Thanks for the hint with multiple firewire devices, that could be a solution. If I remember correctly they should have the same timing 'automagically'? Best Regards, Philipp _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
