15 Jul
2008
15 Jul
'08
1:03 p.m.
On Mon, 14 Jul 2008 12:10:40 +0200
Arnold Krille <arnold(a)arnoldarts.de> wrote:
Am Montag, 14. Juli 2008 schrieb hollunder(a)gmx.at:
Thanks Arnold,
I think it depends a lot on the recording technique, but I guess having
a few spare channels doesn't hurt.
Thanks for the hint with multiple firewire devices, that could be a
solution. If I remember correctly they should have the same timing
'automagically'?
Best Regards,
Philipp
By whole band I mean a rather
'traditional' band setup with like,
drums, bass, singer/s, 1-2 guitars, maybe keys.
I would guess that 16 channels is plenty for that, except maybe
when one wants to mic every single drum separately.
His estimation was 16 channels minimum, it doesn't hurt if it's
more.
You should go for 24+ channels. A whole drumset is at least 8
channels, if the keyboarder isn't recording the midi, there will be
additional 2-6 channels for keys. And recording the electric guitars
clean and through amp/effects doesn't hurt either. For acoustic
guitars it is good to use at least two mics at different distances
(provided that they play in their own acoustic booth, otherwise you
are pretty much fixed on the plugin-signal). And then you said
something about singers...
The good thing about such a setup (for example with an rme-pci-card
and three adat-interfaces, or several ffado-supported firewire
interfaces) is that you get about the same number of outputs. So you
can create a lot monitor-mixes for the musicians headphones.
Have fun,
Arnold