Post by wiz on Jan 7, 2015 17:03:32 GMT -6
Bob Olhsson
Last night my band (4 piece, two guitars bass drums sax two vocals) had to get together for a rehearsal.
Normally we would lug gear off to a pub that lets us set up in their function room...
Now mostly out of laziness, and some motivation from what Bob has been saying about musicians playing together without headphones during tracking I got the guys to come to my studio.. with the promise they didn't have to bring anything other than the sax.
With the drums, I quietened them down with various muting tricks, and got the drummer to play rods.
Bass was my little Ampeg 8" and we just played two acoustic guitars, sang without mics and the other singer just played sax ambiently.
I hadn't said anything to the guys about anything,and the other singer/guitarist turned to me about an hour in and said how cool it was to rehearse like this...
We all agreed.
Then he said how he would like to record like this... 8).
It really has piqued my interest in following this line of thinking for a bit... and seeing what things i have to do to overcome the inevitable bleed issues that are going to arise.
At the very least, the rehearsal was fun, easy and very productive.
So I am wondering.. was MONO a big part of this type of setups success?
What types of things did you guys do , to minimise bleed or work with bleed, given that I am also singer/player/engineer and thats always difficult to pull off.
cheers
Wiz
Last night my band (4 piece, two guitars bass drums sax two vocals) had to get together for a rehearsal.
Normally we would lug gear off to a pub that lets us set up in their function room...
Now mostly out of laziness, and some motivation from what Bob has been saying about musicians playing together without headphones during tracking I got the guys to come to my studio.. with the promise they didn't have to bring anything other than the sax.
With the drums, I quietened them down with various muting tricks, and got the drummer to play rods.
Bass was my little Ampeg 8" and we just played two acoustic guitars, sang without mics and the other singer just played sax ambiently.
I hadn't said anything to the guys about anything,and the other singer/guitarist turned to me about an hour in and said how cool it was to rehearse like this...
We all agreed.
Then he said how he would like to record like this... 8).
It really has piqued my interest in following this line of thinking for a bit... and seeing what things i have to do to overcome the inevitable bleed issues that are going to arise.
At the very least, the rehearsal was fun, easy and very productive.
So I am wondering.. was MONO a big part of this type of setups success?
What types of things did you guys do , to minimise bleed or work with bleed, given that I am also singer/player/engineer and thats always difficult to pull off.
cheers
Wiz
