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Location
Recording
There
are various situations in which a location recording might be
more appropriate than a studio session. Recent examples include
choirs, which would have
been a little too large for our live room, and which benefited from the
acoustics of the halls we used, or the Sheffield Philharmonic Orchestra
(which would have been much too big for our live room!)
It
might also be a sensible option for bands: if you just want a quick
demo, a tracking session in your practise room might be the quickest
way to capture your live gig sound, and you still have the option to
overdub vocals or guitar solos in the studio before mixing.
If
you have a reasonably good practise room this approach can actually
produce very good results, and if you are the type of band that needs
to capture the feel of a live performance you might want to adopt this
approach for 'proper' recordings as well as rough demo's.
Mixdown will take place back in the control room, with the same powerful and high quality processing options I use for normal studio recordings.
Compromises?
In
terms of technical quality there aren't any: I will bring a laptop
based recording setup, a firewire audio interface with up to 18 inputs,
and a box full of microphones. Each mic
will be recorded at 24 bit resolution to its own individual track
allowing full control over the mix once we get it back to the studio.
In
practical terms there are few possible problems: if your room is on
the small side it will probably have acoustic issues, and possibly
there will be too much background noise. Of course,
the location will need to have a safe and reliable power suppy. If in
doubt get in touch, and we
can arrange for me to check the location in
advance.
Live
Recording
I can
provide various different levels of live gig / show / event recording.
These
include:
Stereo recordings. I will
use a pair of high quality microphones
to record the event as it sounded in the room. The results acheivable
this way depend on the room itself as well as the style of music, but
can be very good.
Small
to medium venue multi-track
recordings. I will
bring the same laptop based setup I use for
location recordings. For small pub gigs I can run the PA sound at the
same time. On larger stages I will use a combination of splits from the
PA mics and dedicated recording mics, plus ambient mics if needed.
Medium
to large venue multi-track
recordings. For an
extra charge I can bring a recording
rack with a pair of HD24 hard disk recorders and 24 mic pre-amps. I can
then take splits from the main PA feeds plus extra instrument or
ambient mics if needed, and record them simultaneously to two separate
recorders.
Get in touch to discuss
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