Hi all,
Got a question for you and especially for FOH experienced guys.
We will perform a show soon and our drummer gonna miss it because he is the soundman for a Jean Claude van Damme movie in production. Anyway we decided to pre-record the setlist for drums to keep the live feeling and NOT use crap sounding programmed drums. I mean we mic'd the drumkit as in a real live show and recorded that multichannel as per setlist order. Also we videotaped it in order to be projected behind us like he was there with us. we also made some scripting, he waves with his hand, etc... Could be fun, we are very used to play with a click track and backing tracks so this won't be a problem for us.
BUT my question is this: what kind of audio treatment should I apply to the tracks before the show? Should I only gate, eq and compress to a minimum? Should I keep them as multichannel in order for the FOH to live mix them or should I do a pre-mix along with the backing tracks and give to him a stereo feed? Should I use my 4 output USB audio card in order to send on two separate stereo tracks the backing tracks on one and drums on the other one? Or...?
Here no one has done this before (pre-recorded live drums + backing tracks) so I have no one to ask about that.
Thanks
Got a question for you and especially for FOH experienced guys.
We will perform a show soon and our drummer gonna miss it because he is the soundman for a Jean Claude van Damme movie in production. Anyway we decided to pre-record the setlist for drums to keep the live feeling and NOT use crap sounding programmed drums. I mean we mic'd the drumkit as in a real live show and recorded that multichannel as per setlist order. Also we videotaped it in order to be projected behind us like he was there with us. we also made some scripting, he waves with his hand, etc... Could be fun, we are very used to play with a click track and backing tracks so this won't be a problem for us.
BUT my question is this: what kind of audio treatment should I apply to the tracks before the show? Should I only gate, eq and compress to a minimum? Should I keep them as multichannel in order for the FOH to live mix them or should I do a pre-mix along with the backing tracks and give to him a stereo feed? Should I use my 4 output USB audio card in order to send on two separate stereo tracks the backing tracks on one and drums on the other one? Or...?
Here no one has done this before (pre-recorded live drums + backing tracks) so I have no one to ask about that.
Thanks