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Originally Posted by Dougie Murray My band is going into the studio next week and I was wondering if anyone could give us some pointers on overhead mic placements. |
Let the engineer take care of it. Tell him the sound you are going for, then trust his judgement. Focus on your job, which is performing and having fun.
Unless you're engineering it yourself, in which case, you could follow any of the advice here, along with hundreds of other possible setups that would work. Read up on how your favorite bands were recorded, and start there. I think there were a couple of threads here recently on how Metallica recorded their drums, try searching!
Good luck in the studio, let us know how it turns out!
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Originally Posted by Dougie Murray 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. |
P.S. This makes no sense, by the way...outboard effects will have no strain on the CPU, where software effects will. You will also get latency with most software effects, you will get virtually none with outboard. I'd suggest using as much outboard gear as possible as long as it is good for tracking, mixing, and mastering (although I would also suggest handing it off to a mixing engineer and then to a mastering engineer if your budget permits.)