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I've got a few CD's of my blues band recording live in the room from the early 1990's. They are sonically first rate as the sound is raw and live, yet refined and clear. I used a Delta 200 16 channel console with a tweaked LXP-1 reverb into a DAT machine. We set up some recording condensers and ran the PA live but oriented the speakers for minimum leakage. Only vocals came out of the PA, the rest was miced up guitar amps and the bass was DI'ed.
I'm one of those guitarists that plays 2 things at once, rhythm and lead consecutivly, sort like how Hendrix did it. Overdubs would be crowding that mix as I'm very busy on the guitar playing every chord, passing line and fill, all at the same time. The 3 piece also included the lead singer's blue's harp so it did have some extra stuff going on.
There is a reason you don't see this very often anymore, it's very hard to do and you must be an absolutely first rate player with stamina as you can fatigue quickly doing 2 things at once.
Jim Williams
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