HELP!!! Recording at home of guitars and drumset?

golot

Hi All, Hope you could help:

I have an Mp3 Player, who can record via his internal mic, via Line In or Digital Line In. I have 20Gb in that thing, so no space/recording-time problem.

Me and my band members (2 guitarists and 1 bassist) play at a kinda long room, pretty big place. I want a way to be able to record the highest quality from all of them at the same time, when we play together it will record. Not like we did a week ago - we plugged one guitar to the Mp3 Unit, recorded that guitar, and than the other guitar and so on... The quality was good, but it takes alot of time and its annoying.

If I record from the mp3s internal mic - quality of guitars so-so and drums are usally louder than guitars.

Any device or unit or electronic thing, that can take an input of 3 guitars and 1 microphone (for the drums) and combine them all with control of volume and other effects/controls?

We need something really simple (and cheap Smile

we're just 16 years old), that will do the job... any ideas?

Thanks a ton!

Run Asulin

P.S - the Mp3 unit needs an external amp (mic-amp) to record from a standart microphone, will that unit/electronic-device amplify it enough? or I need to buy another thing? (little amp or something?)
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RedRandanoRocket · Posted: Sat Jun 12, 2004 7:19 pm Post subject:

you would probably need to find a older analog 8 track/input board, then get some mics and get a set of GOOD head phones and guage the sound levels... I would recomend AT LEAST 3(5 is optimal) mics for the set(one ont he snare, one on the bass, and one over head). then 3 mics for the guitar players, so you would need a total of 6 mics to do it to at least make it sound acceptable...

Chances are you can rent this equiptment, hell maybe even a minidisk or digital recorder and about 8 mics to record your band live, you just need to ahve someone set the levels and press record... i know it didnt cost us much to rent stuff for a month.
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golot · Posted: Sun Jun 13, 2004 1:32 am Post subject:

Hi

I looked around for a mixer and I found this:

Behringer UB-1002 Eurorack 10 Input Mixer

I think it got all the features I need ! Very Happy

What do you think?

Any other mixer better at this price?
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Saluda Mist: 13" Hi-Hats, 16" Medium Thin Crash, 17" Rock Crash, 20" Ride, Voodoo - 19" China.
Wuhan 12" China (x2)
Tama Iron Cobra Double Bass Pedal
Ahead Lars Ulrich Drumsticks