Recording my band local
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Posted on Mar 25, 2008 11:49 am
lorispencermusic
Member Since: Mar 25, 2008
I want to be able to record my band locally comming out of a mackie mixer into a multitrack digital recording with a hard drive and also record using a mic into that same multitrack recording for acoustic shows. Any recommendations for a multitrack recorder with either a hard drive or a memory card that is under $700.00? Also, tried this before with an older boss recorder and got substaintial noise when outputting from my mackie 800s mixer to my boss recorder.
thanks for any help.
Lori
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Mar 25, 2008 06:55 pm How many tracks are you looking to record? Recording it down to a stereo product or keeping each channel separate? In small and mid sized romms right out of the mixer can give a bad recording due to the mix being mostly vocals, kick and random amounts of other stuff simply filling in over stage amps.
So what's the room size, setup and final format wanted?
Mar 25, 2008 07:34 pm thanks for the questions. I would want to record it down to stereo at minimum. the normal group is a trio with the 3 vocals, keyboard amp, guitar amp run on seperate channels in the mixer. when we run a quartet we add a percussion playing congas / snare / ride / hi - hat which i usually mic with two mics. the places that we play that we need to use our own sound system are usually resturants, wine bars, and smaller clubs. the bigger clubs that we play provide the sound so i would not be recording. this is mainly for review and practice. I use a mackie 808S so i have the ability to run out from each channel.
you can get an idea of our different sounds from my web site www.lorispencermusic.com.
Mar 25, 2008 07:38 pm Ya know, considering your venue, you may want to look into a simple, small 4 to 8 channel hard disk recorder and four mics to place around the room and record it via room sound rather than out of the board. You play softer, smaller rooms, so the room sound would provide better sound than the board sound (in theory anyway).
Something like:
www.homerecordingconnecti...roduct=FOSMR8HD
for example, 8 tracks, four mic ins (it appears)...get a good room sound...and maybe a stereo feed from the board just for good measure, then later, mix to suit.
Mar 27, 2008 11:59 am Thanks. I was looking at the Fostex a couple of days ago and it looked like it might do the trick.
Lori
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Since: May 10, 2002
Mar 29, 2008 11:39 pm If it's really for review and practice a simple stereo recording with room mics would be better. That's going to tell you how your sound is reaching the audiance. Hitting a board pre-amplification will tell you little about relitive volumes, sound blends, or room effects.
