DAT-heads Digest #791, Volume #6 Sun, 6 Jul 03 14:50:00 EDT Contents: Re:re: taping in clubs question (Keith Bode) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Keith Bode Subject: Re:re: taping in clubs question Date: Sat, 05 Jul 2003 15:09:29 -0700 In response to Dennis, I have been trying off and on to work witth Bands wh play in a local Blues Club that books natinal and international touring bands to play there. I was there one night at a private party Los Lobos played, ad was there because i had cultivated a friendship with the former owners. I also developed a friendship with the sound guy. It's nice to be able to hang around the soundboard, and pick up a few tips from someone wh's been behindone for 15 years. A couple of things I wanted to comment on that you wrote: > You cannot possibly hear what is going onto the tape if you are > trying to use phones plugged into a recorder to monitor. You may hearsomething, > but not what is being recorded. > I bought a pair of Sony MDR V600 head phones about a year ago. After buying them, I went an plugged them into my reciever. It did not shut off the speakers, and I didn't do it manually. I cranked up the stereo much louder thaan I ever would, living in an aartment. Klipsch speakers put out a lot of volume. Maybe because the music from the stereo was the same as the speakers, I couldn't hear the speakers, but my neighbr sure could. Perhaps if the sound from the speakers was different from the soound of the speakers, things would have been different. > I then began using a 100 foot snake and sitting in > the bathrooom or whatever, just get a wall between you and the band, several > times outside the building. (See Lee's posts on the marvelous mobile studio!) IF > your club has a good house setup, it may have a split snake in place. That is what > I am now moving to use, but they are costly. With a split snake my mixer sets my > recorder mix, and the band sound person mixes the house mix and we each get > what we need. > I have been planning to put toggether, and actully have gatered equipment to have a "budget" prtable studio. if you have a split snake near the stage, and runyour own snake, that seems ideal to me. Oterwise hpefully the main SBD is not using any of the inserts, and you can pull a signal from there. The split definitely seems better, and running your own snake. I have spent a lot f time poking around SBD's and amp racks, trying to figure this out. What I have, and will need another is a Tascam 34B. That way I can record a 1 hour set, with some overlap, and make it into a recording with a seemless splice. I woould like to use a 16 channel board, mix down to 4 channels live, than mae a final mixx to 2 channel. Like Dennis said, the house soound gets what it needs, and the recording getss what it needs, and I get what i need. Keith ------------------------------ ** FOR YOUR REFERENCE ** To unsubscribe from this digest, please send email to dat-heads-unsubscribe@datheads.phish.net If your email address has changed, you may (optionally) send the message to dat-heads-unsubscribe-oldaddress=olddomain@datheads.phish.net and the old address will be removed. Problems or questions about a subscription should be addressed via these avenues and then if needed to dat-heads-owner@datheads.phish.net or postmaster@datheads.phish.net never the list itself You can submit a message for inclusion in the next digest via this address: Internet: dat-heads@datheads.phish.net Archives of DAT-Heads digests and related files are available on the DAT-Heads home page: http://www.solorb.com/dat-heads/ End of DAT-Heads Digest ******************************