DAT-heads Digest #791

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  Re:re: taping in clubs question (Keith Bode)


From: Keith Bode <t.tunakebo@verizon.net>
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




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