Recording Your Band Live In 1 Room
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- Опубликовано: 12 сен 2024
- One of the most frequently asked questions I get is "I only have 1 room. How do I record my band?".
Well I'm going to cover 1 setup that has worked for me many, many times... in smaller and larger rooms.
To demonstarte this setup I'll be joined by a fantastic band called Pickle Rick. Featuring:
Joshua McClanahan: Bass
Michael Angeles: Guitar
Joel Hill: Keys
Eli Cherry: Drums
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Rule number 1. Have a tight and disciplined kickass bunch of musicians.
Rule number 2. Make the worst music you can ever positively make.
that bass player is really playing his heart out.
They didn't even mic his cab up :/
@@gezrick they went for direct right?
@@gezrick i think that maximises your bass sound....tho u could also mic+direct but that may cause a bit phasing so dont know if that maybe a good thing
Does not sound like a mic in front of the cabinet. I am missing a bit low end, which lets me think its a direct amp signal.
I love the bass players face, THAT is what is so great about playing live, together... Feeling!
I couldn't agree more! Thanks for watching!
i dont ima girl
Dang, that guitar sounds good! The drums sound good! The keys sound good, the bass tone sounds amazing! All the players have great feel and are awesome! The lesson is awesome. Thanks so much! God bless!
They are all very good players, let me say that first off
But as a bassist, a pet peeve of mine is that " lagging behind the beat" drum playing at the beginning.
Also known as "gospel drums", us old timers used to call it "dragging".
Makes playing bass feel like trying to walk in water up to your waist.
Bugged me back then, still does.
Later, during the "funk blues", it seems the drums are much louder than everything else. It may just be the way youtube handles audio, tho...
This may be one of the best videos I’ve ever seen on the topic of recording a full band. Great players too.
Mel Abdo that's exactly what I was thinking!
I could listen to these guts play forever. That bass though!
great players, especially the keyboard player..top notch
Holy shit. That was SO good. The band was amazing, everyone of them. Educational as hell and answered a couple of questions I had about this whole 1 room thing. And answered questions I didn't know I had! Fantastic. Just Fantastic.
That was sweet! And great info! Our setup is small, but we do full bands in one room as well. Now i don't have any excuses to not make it sound the best. I'm always learning. Thank you!
Hey Aaron!
Make it sound great!!! Good luck and happy recording!
Rock n roll ! Good video . Nice 👍
Thanks Keith!!
I'm new to, and very impressed with Bugera amps. And it's awesome to see a V in such a nice studio. That says a lot to me anyway.
jim idgaffigan bugera rules!
nice vid, yes the bleed adds to the feel for me, shadow glue if you will, the ribbons really dry it up nice along with the pres and chain console etc, sounding superb charlie, you and spectresound are my faves on the tube, thanks for vid man
man, the drummer is a beast! ❤
Eli is the man!! Love his playing.
Thank you so much for posting this. This is one of the best demonstrations of recording a band live in one room that I've seen. I really dig hearing the mics individually and observing how little bleed you can get away with. AWESOME PRESENTATION!!!
Love the tones out of that room. Having great players sure helps when recording in one room! Well done!
Damn! These guy are so tight, great musicians!! And this is a FANTASTIC sound recording. TOP!
Recently discovered this channel and am LOVING it! THANKS FOR THE TIPS!
Great musicians !
Cool session Charlie. Thanks for sharing. I record all of our rehearsals - but never that tight and never sounding that awesome! Nevertheless we have fun doing the best we can with what we've got. This just goes to show how good a product you can get when playing it live like a real band, and a little attention to bleed control. Cheers mate ... I love being a fly on the wall in your studio.
great work on reducing the bleed so much! world class man!!
Wow I love the tone off each instrument.. amazing players and record engr.. I just wish next time there's vocals cause it's one of the biggest challenge when recording live in one room.
Thank you! It was really fun working with them. Vocals are tough when live in the room. I usually try to put the vocalist in the control room with me but on several albums I've done we cut vocals live with the band playing. And quite often we end up keeping some of those vocals because of the performance.
Next time I'm in a session that we're cutting vocals live in the room I'll try and grab a little behind the scenes footage of the setup.
Thanks for the comment!
Use a shitty mic as scratch vocals then overdub with a better mic in an iso booth
Also troubleshooting this currently.
At last! I found a tutorial video that shows how to record a band live in the studio!
F**k yeah! It's ALL good....but do yourself a solid and jump to 26:15, it really starts to cook!
Killer video bys super fun and informative.
I always enjoy your videos!
Awesome Lettuce cover!
What's the name of the track?
Thanks for the great lesson. It did provide me some thoughts on issues I had not considered before. Thanks!
Unreal. Zappa would be psyched
Wow, it sounds great!
It very funny, but my live recording setup is kinda backwards, I usually place bass and guitar amps as far from drums as possible, pointed straight at drums. And I'm recording room as well, usually with two cardioid mics, set as spaced pair in front of drums about 3-6 feet from them poited to corners behind the drumkit. I find that bleed from overheads and room mics actually helps everything to sound more cohesive, if it's not too much and if it sounds good.
But now I should try using some baffles for isolation!
Can you please do a more indepth video on best ways, gear and techniques on recording live band rehearsal with 1 🎤 microphone
I was just talking to someone this weekend about this topic! Let me see what I can do.
I was wondering the same thing... what if there are vocals? Would you have them in a booth of some sort?
Well this answers all my questions just watching this
Great musicians. Love the keyboardist. Thanks for the tutorial.
The sound is incredible!
That keyboard player is the Shit!!!
The total SHIZZLE..
great video and great musicians. i really enjoyed it ,you guys made my night, i wish all the sucess in the world, great job guys.
Very informative video, thanks!
The tune sounds amazing, and so does the recording, thanks for the tips! These guys got a group to listen to?
I don’t think this particular group is a normal thing but they all work together in various other bands.
All of them are great musicians
Great tips sir, we will try this and will post our live recordings
The band name, funniest shit I've ever heard
You guys killed it
Now with a metal band/
Wow. They are all amazing 🔥
19:00 if you watch Harbor Freight's junk mail (like my friend habitually does) you can catch a sale on moving blankets (a coupon that applies to anything really), or even get one of them for free.
Killers! Loved the talk and the music! Great!
WOW, PHENOMENAL!!! I see a lot of frankenkits do you prefer to just chose each drum individually???
Those toms are simply amazing, did you do any processing on them?
Hey Dave!
I did a little eq with the Trident during tracking but not very much. Nothing was done to them after tracking. Those toms have been edged by Chris Heuer and are pretty special. With a good drummer (like Eli) they usually don't need much.
I'm looking for this drum sound a long time, really amazing !
awesome feel
yesss! I do. And my room is 10'x8' Drums bass and guitar. I need some more rooms. lol or a biger one. Its not easy. Its cool how i have it set up. The drums are in the corner facing out and directly in the other corner is the bass amp and to that adjacent corner is the guitar amps, the way i have the mics place the kick drum mic and the bass guitar mic are both lined up with one another but facing the opposite ways insuring the mics reject the opposing sound waves,and then the guitar hangs out in the other corner,and actually does not get a lot of bleed from the drums or bass at all. 906 and mxl ribbon on the guitar,and then the drum overheads are the worst for bleed. But now i have 414's going though a warm 412 and its sounds a lot better
Hey Jonathan! That is very similar to how I used to set things up in my first studio....which was pretty small. It worked pretty well and sounds like your setup does too!
Thank you for sharing!!
Where are your monitors placed? We currently just have the voice mics running thru the mixer since the instruments are so loud just coming through the amps. The recording software is picking up all instruments just not the best quality. The guitarists like it loud. Definitely need more soundproofing!
Great video thank you.
Your welcome! Thanks for watching!
If you put the gobo behind an open back amp it'll kill all the low end on that amp, unless you close the cabinet of course.
Damn, this guy's are amazing!
IM PICKLE RICKKKKKK Nice Band Great music !!!!!!!!!
i used my mattress to keep the amps out of the drum mic's before, it was a bitch to keep the mattress standing, but it did an amazing job keeping the bleed low
My band, B4us, www.reverbnation.com/b4us runs the guitar and bass thru the PA. Our room is the top of a two car garage with sloping walls. We are set up on one of the short walls, with the PA speakers facing us. My drums have a bass drum mic and two overheads, that's it. All of the songs on our site, except "Reality", were recorded "live" with the guitar, bass, and drums with a dummy vocal which was replaced later. The keyboards were also added later (she's not in the band anymore).
"Reality" was recorded one track at a time.
On the subject of bleed, I think that it's a part of what makes a band sound like a band. Recordings with no bleed sound like separate people playing the same song, but seperately.
Jordi alba is so great at guitar
I'd love to see this same style of video, but with the band set up in a place with really cool natural reverb. Like a church or an empty venue. I'd love to see how you'd mix/treat the room reverb in the mix.
Also, it goes without saying, these dudes are world class!
awesome Band.
beautyful,
gr8! thx
Good stuff guys.. Can I ask, cant you just rely on the heads for the guys? Have the amps turned as low as they will go or off and use DI into the board?
This band is bitch'n!!! Are we rockin' or what!
Hi Sir. those live recording are in 1 track? was really cool and pro.. very inspirational..
Not sure I completely understand your question. It was recorded in 1 live take but it was multi-tracked.
@@Ultimatestudiosinc Sorry because im very new in recording, just starting. I just wonder all my instrument is plug into my 8channel mixer then usb to pc and from my software it detects only 1 track for all of the instrument.
Thanks
@@schoolfield27 Well I don't have a lot of experience with USB mixers but a lot of those boards are geared more towards live applications so it may only output the main outs which is why you're only seeing 1 channel. You might take a look at the manual and see how many outputs you can record via USB.
Why aren't you decoupling the bass cab?
Can I record metalcore in the same way? :)
I can hear you speaking, did you include the ambient noise mic'd up or you shut it down when the band plays?
the Keyboard player sounds great.
cool video
Wow, didnt expect a good band :D
wow
Freddy fucking fingers on the keyboards, holy shit!
Did anyone catch how he’s running bass is it mic’d?
i’m wearing my pickle rick socks rn lmao
eargasm!
I love rick and Morty
how do i make each instrument be in its own channel, when recording into a software, all at the same time?
dam them boys are good
Charlie...can you share the overhead setup...?
With using ribbons for the overheads, were taking their "Dead Spots" when positioning? I've seen some real cool recordings done with just ribbons taking that in to account and there is so little bleed, even with minimal use of baffles.
Cheers
If everyone is wearing headphones, why do you need the speakers/monitors at all?
@9:20 is a good explanation! Thx
I miss your videos, you are not posting them at the same rate as before.
I've been super busy making music and fell behind (as you noticed!). I promise I'm working on some new material.
Thanks for watching!!!!
Brill! ty
Do you have to worry about any degree of latency on the recording when you have the over head picking up the room sound from the other instruments or is it so minimal that it is not an issue?
It's usually so minimal it's not an issue. The only times it's really been an issue is when I've recorded an actual live set in a club. In that case isolation isn't realistic. When I'm in the studio I can usually mitigate it to the point that it's no problem.
Yeah what I want to fucking know is how you connect it to the mixer/insterface so that everything can be heard seperatley can somonr help?
tightest drummer i ever seen ,,, damn
PIICKKLEEE RIIIIIIIIICKK
Did they just play a new master sounds tune?
Them boys is NASTY!
Rare producer have ability to record the whole band at the same time.... this is too hard... it requires solid knowledge in recording and professional playing skill from the band.
exelente
Pickle Rick!!!!
Charlie, what are the dimensions of your live room and control room?
Funky!
Keren bangg
Hey! I was wondering if you could give me any information on those acoustic absorbers you're using behind the amps. Where I may be able to pick some up similar to those, or point me in a direction of a DIY.
Colton Jacoby did you find anything?
@@michaelgillespie8257 they're Real Traps. can buy them online, but also can search youtube for "DIY bass traps" for some solid results
what mics are on those toms ? they sound great .
Hey Dusty! They are Audio-Technica AE3000. They rock!
PICKLE RICK!!!
Do you foresee any complications if I used this exact same layout except with the drums tucked into the corner of the room? Thanks
Not at all. The corner can actually be a great place for drums. Here's another video where I tracked live but had the drums in the corner. ruclips.net/video/dz5R4goqXtU/видео.html
PICKLE RIIIICK
sup dawgggg
I wish I could do this with friends but no. My friend who plays guitar can’t play smoke on the water, my other friend can only play violin, no one wants to sing, and I can’t play bass and drums at the same time.
I feel you 100%
Music Man thanks