Something a bit different today. Leo, one of my tutors, has organised an optional live sound recording session for my uni group. Obviously, it's optional because we're not studying live sound (that's a completely different group), we're studying audio and music production. Still, I could do with branching out my expertise just in case, so I went down to dBs Live today to take part.
Today's sessions was a practice session; the real thing's happening next Friday. We'll be recording a local band called Matthew & Me, who are an up-and-coming indie band from Totnes. They're a quintet, and thankfully there's no tricky instruments, and their setup is fairly intrinsic, so it shouldn't be too difficult next week. Most of our difficulty comes from where to set up the frontman's vocals. He sings and plays guitar, so obviously there'll be an amp close to him, meaning it'll bleed into the vocal microphone, so we're not going to get an entirely clean recording. However, we have a cunning plan! We'll set the frontman up in one of the corners of the live room, with one of the boxes from the PA speakers propped up to try and block some of the other sounds, and we'll also drape a curtain over the box to help damp the sound a bit more. Everything else is pretty elementary; drum kit at the opposite end of the room to the frontman and his guitar amp, bass amp near the kit with another box to block out the drums, keyboard amp and the other guitar amp in between. Should be good...
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