29 Sep 2009
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Posted By : Scott - Metalleeka | Comments : 11
Anyone tried this with them little portable mini-disc thingies?
Is the sound quality any good? Thinking about just nabbing one of ebay for £20 and giving it a go. Just interested to see if any of you guys and gals have tried it in the past
i think that may work scott, iam sure one of my old bands used to do that.
dead easy mate, we use it all the time
ha, i thought it did !
funnily enough I did that last night, not a portable minidisc player though, just put the auxilary outputs to inputs on minidisc player then I could adjust levels on each track with aux sends, seemed to work ok but only if eveyone goes through the desk..
cool, just bought one for £22will give it a go next week at our mock gig :-D
could maybe use a overhead for the drums and a kick drum mike through the desk, what do ya think anthem ???
we're planning on putting everything through the desk, but another option is to just mic the room up and take an output from that. Won't be the best sound, but enough for us to gauge what needs work and what doesn't.
You'll find that all you get is the stuff mic-ed up and very little else. You'd be as well just leaving it in the corner with a mic plugged into it (if it's one that has a mic input). If it's just for demos, you'll get half decent results with that. You could always DI the bass and guitar into the desk as well as the vocals and mic up the drums. You'll end up with mind-bogglingly loud drums in the room but if you balance the recordings using headphones to judge what's really coming into the desk you should get a fairly decent recording.
we're doing a full mock gig in a function room, so we'll be mic'ing everything up, drums, geetars, bass n vox. We'll spend an hour or so tweaking the sound til we're happy with the mix, then go for it. Hopefully it'll sound pretty cool, but it's purpose will be purely for listening to in the car to and from work so see what needs to be improved or not. Who knows, if it's good enough, we might stick a few tracks on myspace. :-D
Done this a few times. You can pull the output form the lineout phono to 8th" jack to go into the minidisc recorder. If you do it from a live mix you'll need to use the monitor out sub otherwise it reflects levels of the mix i.e. vocals will be overpowering bass drum high, gutiar quiet. For some reason the bass guitar never seems to travel well from desk to aux output ?? But sounds OK - ish. ] If you do it just a mix you shoudl be able to alter the levels to match. Also sitck a mic in the middle of the room for some of the room acoustics..
Posted by Ride On (AC/DC) - 29/09/2009, 10:54 (GMT) could maybe use a overhead for the drums and a kick drum mike through the desk, what do ya think anthem ??? the concept of these drum thingys is alien to me lol
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