Live Recording

[Brett - K A L I S I A]

Unfortunately there were no crowd/ambient mics

 

[~BURNY~]

dude sounds good! I agree it could use a little more crowd noise, even if it was just that one drunk guy in the corner with the manowar shirt that goes to every show and shouts "Slayer!!"

Hey! I know him

 

[JeffTD]

Sounds good to me, besides the ambient/crowd noises thing, but that can't be helped.

I actually really like Freak Kitchen; are they releasing a live album soon?

 

[Brett - K A L I S I A]

Thanks.
I think they're gonna release a DVD some time in the future and want as many footages as they can get (probably next year).

 

[Lopes]

Freak Kitchen Rules! Although it wasn't IA's best vocal performance it's decent, but the one thing that should be done is bringing down the other vocals and maybe washing them out in reverb. They just kill the performance, almost as much as John Petrucci's lame falsetto on the live version of In The Name of God. Musically, it sounds very well done, overall great work.

 

[Obscura]

I think the recording sounds great and the topic was really helpful to me. My band will be doing a short European tour in August and we have a friend who is making a tour DVD and will be recording us with 2 cameras, a laptop and a MOTU 828 going into the board. We got some great tips from this thread so thanks to everyone who posted.

 

[Impy]

Stopping in the middle of a song is such a cool thing to do
Meshuggah did that once when i saw em, Tomas Haake felt that they weren't playing Future Breed Machine fast enough.

 

[Brett - K A L I S I A]

A new version of the mix is online now. Hope it's better (lowered the backings, changed a bit the reverb on the drums, eq'd the guitar differently...).
Tell me what you think...
Cheers

 

[~BURNY~]

I think previous mix sounded "fairer". Just me, anyway. Backing vocals have a live Zappa vibe to my ears which is cool, I think.

 

[Brett - K A L I S I A]

"fairer" ? You mean more "Rock n' Roll", backing vocals sux (because of bad monitors by the way - try to sing when you can't hear yourself...) but we don't care, this is real live ?

 

[~BURNY~]

That was the point. More (a)live.

 

[Lopes]

Much better than the previous one, but there are still a couple of spots where some of the backgrounds poke their heads out a little bit too much and I think that the guitar solo and melody parts could use some reverb, but it's very nice as is.

 

[Brett - K A L I S I A]

Cool.
Well if you know Freak Kitchen and IA, you'll know that he's not kind on any effect on the guitar : no reverb, no delay... Just a guitar in an amp... So I'll leave that as is for the moment and see...

 

[_RiseInside_]

you may want to think again about the DI, you can reamp, get rid of all stage noise and if you need to correct anything, which you will, you can reamp through the same set up so your sounds match perfectly.
Splitters are expensive, you can hire from most decent hire companies, I recommend either the Klark Technics or BSS. I have a passive Whirlwind splitter unit thats fine (they also do splitter snakes) and the Mackie desk, which works (unusual for Mackie I know). It would be great if someone made an active splitter with pres on one output.
whirlwind splitter

let´s say i get a passive splitter like the whirlwind one. At the show i would have to convince the tech crew to connect the mic signals to my splitter first. Then one set of "outs" from the splitter to the monitor stage desk and the other set of "outs" into my soundcard, right ? I mean, i would have to "change" their standard signal path, i think. or is there another way ?

 

[Wadi]

let´s say i get a passive splitter like the whirlwind one. At the show i would have to convince the tech crew to connect the mic signals to my splitter first. Then one set of "outs" from the splitter to the monitor stage desk and the other set of "outs" into my soundcard, right ? I mean, i would have to "change" their standard signal path, i think. or is there another way ?

I dont think there's any other way. You have to 'split' the signal into two paths.