| Low-fi method is to take the direct outs from FOH... that can work if they're pre fader & pre EQ. If not... any move at FOH will be duplicated on the recording. Not so good...
If it's a small venue & I can get close to the stage a lot of times I'll run my own mics on the instruments & split just the vocals, maybe snare drum or some other things with "tight" placement.
Make sure the venue knows about this well in advance, as they usually don't take well to people just showing up with lots of gear, wanting to patch in and take over a large block of floor space...
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Originally Posted by the guy who invented fire All you need to make a record is a mic, some tape and maybe some bad reverb... | |