The Advantage, Electrogroup(Live)
Went to go see the Advantage and Elecro group last night at the good ol Capitol Garage, and i must say i had myself some fun.
for the live recording i used a combonation of my stereo condenser mic and the live sound board. heres the breakdown.
electrogroup:
kick- shure beta52
snare - sm57(sorta angled up at the snare to get some hi hats too, not realy my idea, but it sounded fine)
vocal - shure beta 87a
these were all that was put through the sound board and ran through a compressor and into my 5/6 line level channel.
i used my stereo sony mic for channels 1/2 and cranked it up
then i had a mic on the guitar and bass(yellow and red AT mics)
and those went right to channels 3/4. my mixer is small and thats why i was routed this way, one of those small berhinger mixers.
all of this was run to my minidisc. man i love this thing, but its starting to fall apart. ive got the warranty on it still so im gonna take it in to get a new one soon.
the electro group recording came out ok, the signal coming off of the sound board(using the 1/4 main outs) was really weak, but i had my compressor to make some extra signal that helped.
the guitars came out great. and the room mic proabaly couldve used a new battery, but over all it wasnt too bad. they play realy realy loud and the vocals rarely come out over the music so it pretty much sounds like going to see them live.
for the advantage i used pretty much the same set up, but since they dont have vocals i was able to get a better drum sound. the bass was also DI'd into the main mix which saved me a mic for the two guitars that i close micd. both yellow at mics there. this recording came out a little bit better. man i love these bands.
Lousy Bums - Pets - Army of Trees
Well ive had a couple of weeks of laying low and cleaning out the garage that its about time to get a few more recordings down.
Im looking forward to doing the army of trees in may. they came over while we finished up the Helper Monkeys vocals and hung out while i made a ruff mix for them and dug it. so they got a taste of what to come. im going to practice recording more drums before then though. i want to try the Woodhouse style on my drum set to see if i can pull it off a little better. my "style" thus far has only been close mic. the drums dont realy breathe.
im also recording the Lousy Bums which is Jaz from the helper monkeys, and ed (from los huevos fame)'s other band. i havent heard them yet, som im not sure about how to "make" them sound. with the helper monkeys i knew. it was straight ahead punk. make em loud and noisy.
im thinking that this will be a little less like that, but still "punk" in some vein as in plenty of beer and rock.
Pets also want to record some more. This is kinda cool, people are actualy *wanting* to record with me. I must be doing somthing right.
I still need to get the tracks done for the comp as it looks like it snowed on the dogwood at my parents house, summer is on its way and spring is out the door soon. yikes.
hotel pistol is also onboard for some late may recording and i talked with Finian from Vol4 last night about some may recording as well.
i'll try not to get too bogged down.
