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I want to start a discussion about the ways to taking the electric guitars in a live show to the PA?

Do you mice them or DI them?
And why?

Perosnaly, i am not a PA man, but a guitarist!

And am starting to think about the sound, that my band can produce an really try to optimize it!

Hello,

I'm planning to record a live show as multitracks.
I have to set my pair of RODE NT5 to get the room/crowd sound.

How would you set up those mics?

high? pointing the stage? Pointing the audience?
ORTF? X-Y ?

Well, any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.

-Barnee.

Hello i have a folk band that i am recording which has an accordion in it and i am not sure on how to properly get the sound reproducion of that instrument. i was sugested to use a omni mic placed about 3-5feet away but i was wondering what else i could do.

I am a prosumer recordist sticking my toe in the sacred waters of real deal gear. I want to upgrade my fathers recording setup. He is a quite successful artist producing solo piano CDs. cocktailpiano.com

records his elegant playing on a bosendorfer 7 ft grand with a RODE nt1 a senny 421 through about a 350 ART preamp.

obviously time for a step up.

I've got a pair of Royer R-121's on the way (to play with before I make the financial leap to a SF-1.) I've used Figure-8 (on a pair of Shure KSM44 LDC) in Blumlein, half a MS rig, and as a semi coincident pair.

I've got both choral and organ gigs this week where I can experiment a big (supplement the main rig.)

I'm trying to get a GREAT metal guitar sound with the equipment i've got. The problem i'm having is the sound i record is somewhat muddy and not "tight." I'm not sure if my problem is the guitar tone i have now(which sounds great in my basement where we're recording) or the mic placement.

I was jsut wondering if anyone could give me any advise on Micing my guitar amp.

heres the equiptment i have:

Marshall avt 150 guitar amplifier

Boss br1600 digital recoder

Samson c valve (mainly used to invert the phase of my condenser mic and supply phantom power)

Shure KSM44

Shure SM57

thanks alot

I want to know what others would suggest. I am doing a radio show. It is being done live and recorded on a multitrack DAW. One problem I am running into on the show is the Micing of the chorus (all 17 of them) and the soloist. Currently I am using an AKG D 3800M for the soloist and a crossed coincident pair of AT 4051s for the backing chorus of 17 people.

This Sunday I’m recording a chamber ensemble in a 450-seat auditorium. I’ve got my main pair figured out, but thought I would try hanging a pair of microphones off the balcony to record the audience and get some ambient sounds that I can blend into the main mix. These mics would be about 30 feet or so from the lip of the stage.