Chapter 21 On-Location Recording of Popular Music
DOI: 10.4324/9781315696331-21
Sooner or later you’ll want to record a band—maybe your own—playing in a club or concert hall. Many bands want to be recorded in concert because they feel that’s when they play best. Your job is to capture that performance on a recorder and bring it back alive.
You can record pop-music concerts in several ways. Listed below are a range of techniques from simple to elaborate. In general, sound quality improves as the recording setup becomes more complex.
- Record off the board (PA mixer) into a portable stereo recorder.
- Record with a portable stereo recorder’s built-in mics.
- Feed the PA mixer’s insert-send signals to a multitrack recorder. Edit and mix the recording ...
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