Not sure if this is a redundant theme, but a search turned up very little.
To set context, I play Irish Traditional Music. The instrument I teach and play is called the Bodhran. My father runs an Irish Music Academy here in Chicago.
http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/the-clearing/id287375739 (My Band)
We have been playing around with doing some live recording (an early test here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9p_pLr0F-4 ) and I am looking to get some best practices or resources for advice.
We have quite a lot of live sound gear (16 channel board, amps, subs, mics, you name it) and we created a whip for simplifying the direct out from the board.
At this point we have been using what I would categorize as a pretty straight forward setup to do live recording.
Equipment:
- MacBook Pro 15", 4GB RAM, 250GB HD.
- Presonus Firestudio Project
- Allen & Heath GL2400-16 live mixer
- Logic Pro 9
I created an 8 channel input template within Logic and then turned off the count in. I start with this and "Save As" for the gig.
I have not really tried to change the input channels to add compressors, and that is an area that I think would be helpful. We have predominantly acoustic instruments. Drums, violins, flutes, tin whistles, guitars, keyboards, even cellos and violas. the makeup and textures of these instruments vary greatly.
Also, I did the recordings as one long session and have done both post gig track splitting and stop/play a bar/record (w/in logic: space>space>r) to create some separation. I think this is the area which I can benefit most around. There has to be a better way of capturing the gig.
Anyhow, looking for some general guidance.
Thanks in advance
To set context, I play Irish Traditional Music. The instrument I teach and play is called the Bodhran. My father runs an Irish Music Academy here in Chicago.
http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/the-clearing/id287375739 (My Band)
We have been playing around with doing some live recording (an early test here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9p_pLr0F-4 ) and I am looking to get some best practices or resources for advice.
We have quite a lot of live sound gear (16 channel board, amps, subs, mics, you name it) and we created a whip for simplifying the direct out from the board.
At this point we have been using what I would categorize as a pretty straight forward setup to do live recording.
Equipment:
- MacBook Pro 15", 4GB RAM, 250GB HD.
- Presonus Firestudio Project
- Allen & Heath GL2400-16 live mixer
- Logic Pro 9
I created an 8 channel input template within Logic and then turned off the count in. I start with this and "Save As" for the gig.
I have not really tried to change the input channels to add compressors, and that is an area that I think would be helpful. We have predominantly acoustic instruments. Drums, violins, flutes, tin whistles, guitars, keyboards, even cellos and violas. the makeup and textures of these instruments vary greatly.
Also, I did the recordings as one long session and have done both post gig track splitting and stop/play a bar/record (w/in logic: space>space>r) to create some separation. I think this is the area which I can benefit most around. There has to be a better way of capturing the gig.
Anyhow, looking for some general guidance.
Thanks in advance