My band is going into the studio next week and I was wondering if anyone could give us some pointers on overhead mic placements.
We are a thrash metal band: Metallica, Mega
, Slayer, etc...
First of all there is only eight inputs. Enough to have only two overheads and these need to capture hats, two crashes, a ride and a china. The others are taken by Kick, Snare, and 4 x toms.
The setup is a Presonus Firepod into a Dell laptop running Cubase SX3 outputting through a pair of Mackie monitors and a Makie sub. There are no outboard effects and we only want to be using software effects for mixing and mastering to protect from overloading the processor and having a delayed signal.
Thanks