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Anyon here done a live gig recording?

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  • 14-11-2007 2:04pm
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    frobisher
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    I'm doing one in the begining of December as am musician and we're recording it for video too. Never done one before. Any thoughts or expereinces out there?


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    unclebill98
    Registered Users Posts: 3,816 ✭✭✭unclebill98


    Yes, i've dont live recordings.

    What exactly would you like to know?
    How you recording it?
    Are you taking feed from desk or splitting the signal?
    Do you need full control over mixing?
    Do you wanna sub mix the drums?
    What venue?
    How many in the band?
    Is it all going down live?
    Are you planning on doing over dubs?
    Are you the only band playing?
    Are you hiring someone to do it?
    Are the people doing the video the same as the people doing the audio?
    How do you plan on editing the whole thing together?

    Come on spill the beans...?

    Or i could just say recording live is fine...


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    the_syco
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    Does the venue you're recording at mind if you hook up something, to record the sound there (would be clearer).


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    studiorat
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    You can go about it two ways...
    Either way you are going to need a multi track recorder, P.Tools or similar. (some people use a dedicated H.disk recorder too Radar etc.)
    Work out first how many tracks you are going to need, you know, kik,snare, bass, gtr, vox etc. Then add two or three on for crowd ambience etc. And a headphone amp or little mixing desk to monitor the gig through headphones.

    The cheapest way is then just to take direct outs from the FOH console, try and make sure the direct outs are pre fader, so the engineer can move faders during the gig without changing the level to the recorder.

    If the budget is there, the 'proper' way to do it is get a rack of splitter boxes and split the mic signals to the FOH, the monitors and to a seperate recording desk, so you can control the recording levels etc. independently from the front of house or monitor board. This btw usually costs about the same as a day in Windmill or somewhere like that!

    For the video sync, you must choose between using the camera timecode and slaving the recorder to that or sending time code from the audio recorder to the cameras. Usually they have a rig where they send time of day timecode around the place via wireless packs. A work around is to get each camera to take a shot of the timecode screen just when you start recording and use those frames to sync the audio and video later, the problem being that after 10 or 15 minutes they will start to drift apart.


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