Re: [ChurchBass] Bartolini soapbar tone?
Posted by: wulf <wulf@...>
> Actually, the mics are near the mixing desk at the back
> of the room. I'm trying to record what the team sounds
> like in the room, so we can adjust things as needed to
> improve the sound quality. I usually get a pretty good
> recording of the overall team. The problem is that I'm
> the main sound guy AND the bass player - it's tough to
> set my sound levels at the back of the room while I'm
> playing on stage 🙂
It's not just tough - it's pretty near impossible! Among
other things, you'd need to examine how good the
frequency response of your mic is - otherwise you might
turn up the bass so it sounds good on the recording but it
will be too loud for a person sitting in the same location.
My recording technique gets a lot of bass and drums and
the vocals are always too quiet, but they serve my
purpose of feeding back to my practise time. I have to
trust the sound in the main body of the venue to the
sound guy.
One solution would be to have two recordings - a middle
of the room one AND one near your amp. That might be
easier than trying get one recording to fit several divergent
requirements (although that won't work so well if you're
ampless).
> That's what I'm doing now, but I haven't been able to get
> what I want from the 2-band EQ on the SansAmp. Part of the
> problem is the no-amps/I'm the sound guy issue again. And
> being a mobile church. I just don't have an opportunity to
> plug in at the board and dial in my stuff.
Here's another thought. If you're essentially going direct
into the board with no on stage amplification, why not
play at the sound desk? It's a far from ideal solution but if
you've got no onstage sound to play with and you're still
devoting some of your brain to considering your overall
sound, it might be better to work from the back (and use
whatever midrange control is on the mixer to support the
EQ on the SansAmp).
Wulf
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