Had rehearsal tonight and I wanted to post a mixed-down .mp3 file of one of the songs we put together tonight.
The band is a standard 4-piece, with two guitars, bass, and drums, and all four of us handle singing duties. In this case, one of the guitarists is singing.
But this was actually a test of my new recording gear to see how I could do quick & dirty recordings, and I'm happy to say I can. With my particular 8-channel USB interface (Focusrite Scarlett 18i20), what I did was take all the mics to my interface first, then software-wise, I can assign what goes directly out of each DIRECT OUT on the back of the box (it's like a THRU box, so whatever comes in on a certain track will be sent back out the Direct Outs). So all the mics hit my recording rig first, before going on to the band's PA. So the first four channels were vocals, those signals went through to the mixer. The other four channels I had a mic each on the guitars, bass, and one overhead on the drums, but those signals just go to the computer for recording.
On the recording supplied here, it doesn't sound half-bad. I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. Of course, EQ, reverb, ambience were added later when I was able to mix it down. I could've used a bass drum mic, but when the band is going, you don't miss the bass drum at all. This was recorded live in GarageBand using Apple's Yosemite OS. This couldn't have been easier!
I could mic my kit up into it's own mixer and send all those out to a mono send to my one-channel available on the interface, and I might do that next time. But i say if you're on the fence about computer recording (like i used to be), I think I'm showing here how easy it is to make a decent recording of a live band. I like it. Let me know what you think (do not critique the performers, this is mainly academic about recording in general ;)
The band is a standard 4-piece, with two guitars, bass, and drums, and all four of us handle singing duties. In this case, one of the guitarists is singing.
But this was actually a test of my new recording gear to see how I could do quick & dirty recordings, and I'm happy to say I can. With my particular 8-channel USB interface (Focusrite Scarlett 18i20), what I did was take all the mics to my interface first, then software-wise, I can assign what goes directly out of each DIRECT OUT on the back of the box (it's like a THRU box, so whatever comes in on a certain track will be sent back out the Direct Outs). So all the mics hit my recording rig first, before going on to the band's PA. So the first four channels were vocals, those signals went through to the mixer. The other four channels I had a mic each on the guitars, bass, and one overhead on the drums, but those signals just go to the computer for recording.
On the recording supplied here, it doesn't sound half-bad. I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. Of course, EQ, reverb, ambience were added later when I was able to mix it down. I could've used a bass drum mic, but when the band is going, you don't miss the bass drum at all. This was recorded live in GarageBand using Apple's Yosemite OS. This couldn't have been easier!
I could mic my kit up into it's own mixer and send all those out to a mono send to my one-channel available on the interface, and I might do that next time. But i say if you're on the fence about computer recording (like i used to be), I think I'm showing here how easy it is to make a decent recording of a live band. I like it. Let me know what you think (do not critique the performers, this is mainly academic about recording in general ;)
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