Suggestions for small live recording setup

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Hey all

I'm looking to build a small live recording setup to take on tour. My
company is sponsoring small rock festivals in 200-500 person venues
around the country, and we want to make live recordings of the acts as
we're going. I was thinking a small mixer, DAT recorder, and a few
microphones. My idea was to take a stereo mains mix (which would
likely be heavy on vocals) and mix that in with some mics in the house
to get crowd noise as well as the stage volume, mix it down to two
channels, and record to the DAT. Suggestions on technique and
equipment would be appreciated.

Also, there's a chance we might stream the concerts live over the web,
in which case I'd need pointers on how to do that. Nearly every venue
nowadays has DSL, and if they don't I can advance it well enough to get
a temporary hookup with decent upstream bandwidth, but I'd appreciate
suggestions on what to use to digitize and stream the audio on the fly.

Thanks a million

Allen

[Andy]

On 29 Aug 2006 09:09:18 -0700, wrote:

>Hey all
>
>I'm looking to build a small live recording setup to take on tour. My
>company is sponsoring small rock festivals in 200-500 person venues
>around the country, and we want to make live recordings of the acts as
>we're going. I was thinking a small mixer, DAT recorder, and a few
>microphones. My idea was to take a stereo mains mix (which would
>likely be heavy on vocals) and mix that in with some mics in the house
>to get crowd noise as well as the stage volume, mix it down to two
>channels, and record to the DAT. Suggestions on technique and
>equipment would be appreciated.
>
>Also, there's a chance we might stream the concerts live over the web,
>in which case I'd need pointers on how to do that. Nearly every venue
>nowadays has DSL, and if they don't I can advance it well enough to get
>a temporary hookup with decent upstream bandwidth, but I'd appreciate
>suggestions on what to use to digitize and stream the audio on the fly.

If you got a killer budget, look at the Digidesign Venue system.

[Ian Bell]

wrote:

> Hey all
>
> I'm looking to build a small live recording setup to take on tour. My
> company is sponsoring small rock festivals in 200-500 person venues
> around the country, and we want to make live recordings of the acts as
> we're going. I was thinking a small mixer, DAT recorder, and a few
> microphones. My idea was to take a stereo mains mix (which would
> likely be heavy on vocals) and mix that in with some mics in the house
> to get crowd noise as well as the stage volume, mix it down to two
> channels, and record to the DAT. Suggestions on technique and
> equipment would be appreciated.
>

What set up would be suitable depends very much on why you want to make
these recordings.

> Also, there's a chance we might stream the concerts live over the web,
> in which case I'd need pointers on how to do that. Nearly every venue
> nowadays has DSL, and if they don't I can advance it well enough to get
> a temporary hookup with decent upstream bandwidth, but I'd appreciate
> suggestions on what to use to digitize and stream the audio on the fly.
>

The set up you describe is not suitable for streaming - you need much better
control over the sources - preferably use splitters on each source and a
separate mixer - this is the 'classic' way of recording live concerts .

IAn
> Allen

[Romeo Rondeau]

"Andy" > wrote in message
...
> On 29 Aug 2006 09:09:18 -0700, wrote:
>
>>Hey all
>>
>>I'm looking to build a small live recording setup to take on tour. My
>>company is sponsoring small rock festivals in 200-500 person venues
>>around the country, and we want to make live recordings of the acts as
>>we're going. I was thinking a small mixer, DAT recorder, and a few
>>microphones. My idea was to take a stereo mains mix (which would
>>likely be heavy on vocals) and mix that in with some mics in the house
>>to get crowd noise as well as the stage volume, mix it down to two
>>channels, and record to the DAT. Suggestions on technique and
>>equipment would be appreciated.
>>
>>Also, there's a chance we might stream the concerts live over the web,
>>in which case I'd need pointers on how to do that. Nearly every venue
>>nowadays has DSL, and if they don't I can advance it well enough to get
>>a temporary hookup with decent upstream bandwidth, but I'd appreciate
>>suggestions on what to use to digitize and stream the audio on the fly.
>
> If you got a killer budget, look at the Digidesign Venue system.

Hey! I'll help him hook it up if he buys me one :-)