One way to practice your mixing is to record everything.
We record our practice sessions because
1. guys can take a copy home and hear what they did
2. we get to tinker with the sound and mic placements
3. we may stumble onto a cool idea

This is a live mix, everyone in one room and mics bleeding all over while working on writing a song.
Setting (see image below):
5 mics on drums (2 on bass drum, 1 is a subwoofer in reverse)
Barry is playing tambourine, keyboard throughout, and singing <grin>
Bass is causing snare ring and bleeding every mic (you can hear snare rattle at 1:05)
Guitar is loud in the room so I tend to record him low, but he still bleeds
My job; click management, get the tracks recorded the best I can in these conditions, mix as we go and help write
Somewhere along the way I'm sure I'll be adding parts later. My strat is in the picture but I did not play anything on this take.


We used Powertracks to record this, so PG related, plus it fits the forum topic.

We'll go back and record everything individually later of course (none of this is a keeper), but it's a good way to practice the recording side as well as learning/writing/playing the songs. We have fun.

http://masteringmatters.com/stuff/WannaGo180603d-PT2018.mp3

Drums may be loud, it was live after all, but I'm liking the sound we're getting from them so far. Since we'll record them first and they will be the hardest to record, I take advantage of the chance to tinker with micing them various ways beforehand.

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Last edited by rharv; 06/16/18 04:39 AM.