Recently I mixed a show with a traditional Indian band (Congas, a double ended drum, harmonium, tamborine, shaker and vocal). Unfortunately I only had dynamic mics and although I got a resonably good sound it was a struggle to get enough volume before feedback. The room was timber and glass and very live. The stage seemed to resonate at about 200Hz which didn't help at all.

Hello everyone,

I'm getting a little ferklempt, I'll give you a topic...

Mixing methodology. How do we normally tackle the mix? Build up a drum mix, followed by bass, and up to guitars and vocals? Or start off with solo vocals / lead element at a certain volume (?), and bring up the other elements around that?

I havnt seen many posts about this. Ive been reading messages and hearing opinions on what everyone thinks is good or bad, especially for tight budgets. But what kind of music do you record mostly, and like to record?

Hey RO'ers, does anyone know where I can go to get up-to-date industry information as far as the music industry goes? I am updating my business plan (it's a few years old) and I would like to revise some of the figures to reflect more current numbers. If any one knows of any website that I may go to to get industry facts and figures please let me know. Thanks.

Does anybody have any tips on Micing this correctly, its hard not to get a good voacl sound with a rattle and a drum going so close to the vocal, I have tried Micing the singer with a 58, 9 times out of 10 they move off access, there is tons of bleed of the rattle.

it seems i like i sound on lower rates. .less then 44000 but that doesnt matter...what am asking is can i change rates in live music ...i can change in sound forge while recording but can do it live when i do the show so i sound like i sound under the rate i use in sound forge when recording. .?

i have a grip of freestyles me and my friends were just playin around makin and i want to cut the music out the background and put a bunch of the lyrics together and then add a new beat for the entire track. currently I'm using Nero for recording and editing music. i tried to figure it out but just couldnt do it. but atleast i found this forum :)

Hi guys & gals...

I've been toiling a bit at the radio station for the last couple weeks limping along with our Classical station audio after our 20+ year old Orban audio processor puked one day.

I've come to a point where I'm prepared to start investigating using artificial reverb. I record to a Mackie SDR 24/96, and mix in a Powerbook using Tracktion. This has worked well. I haven't done very much processing other than mixing.

Do you use reverb?

What are usable reverbs for acoustic music like choir, chamber music etc?