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Posted on Apr 12, 2003 02:19 pm
brock
Member Since: Jun 28, 2002
hey guys once again i need help. my band is going to play live, but right now we are recording a cd. we have lots of synths and stuff the the back ground...the type of stuff that COULD go with out when we play live but if we could have it play with us it would be cool...on soultion would be having a metranome in the monitor.....but what i think would be better is if we had a program that had all the synth tracks layed out and like a measure before its sopose to come in you could click off "1,2,3,4" on the keybord or somthing. so if the part is writen at 100bpm but we some how ended up going 150bpm (maby a new drummer? lol) it could still come in with us.
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Apr 12, 2003 04:02 pm oh cool, you're gonna have a computer in your band. That's awesome, that's the kind of band I'd like to get into.
Here's an idea, just a suggestion. Maybe you could have that click track tapping out the 1, 2, 3, 4 on a whole separate channel and feed that to a set of headphones for the drummer. That way he would always be on time. I use Cakewalk, and it had it's own separate metronome that I can send to another soundcard or whatever. Useful for recording guitars and stuff and making sure everything comes in at the same time. I reason I say give the drummer the clicks in his head phones is so that the audience doesn't hear it, and he then he can give the rest of the band a more realistic "one two three four" and click his sticks together or whatever.
let us know what you come up with.
juesContributor
Since: Dec 30, 2002
Apr 12, 2003 08:41 pm Hey brock
Well, I am the "electronic's guy" in my band (the peeps who did the intro for this site :) - I personally use an Akai MPC2000XL and 2 synths - this allows me to trigger all the samples by hand which allows for the slight timing variations when we play live.
However, our drummer does wear headphones - he never used to, but since we adopted this approach things have become a lot easier.
Most of the time at gigs (and at practice) we can get it so a mix of his drums (mainly the kick) and my electronics are sent to his headphone amp - this way he can adjust the volume of his headphones.
However, sometimes this is not possible live (due to crappy PA's at venues / stoned sound engineers). In these cases we will mic up the kick drum ourselves (they love it when we do that .... not) and feed that into my Behringer Mixer - he then gets the headphone output which is sent into his headphone amp.
This allows us to use the headphone regardless of the venue - which is a definate plus.
It boils down to wether you want someone to physically trigger the samples (like I do) or you simply sequence everything on the PC and hit play at the start of each song.
If you are going for the latter then your drummer (and maybe guitarist too) WILL need a click track running so that you keep in time with all the samples.
jues.
