I want to record my band, but my band is a bit odd, and we don't have any recording equipment. We are planning on applying for municipal funding, but that might not work out. Who knows. Anyway, I'd really appreciate any advice in terms of what equipment to get, and how to use it.
OK so my band sounds sort of like this:
https://www.facebook.com/galleriznedi/v ... =3&theaterThat's not great recording quality, obviously, but just to give you an idea.
So it's:
* A trumpet player (who has a pretty good mic for the trumpet, which runs into a 6-track/4 bus mixer, aux send/return to/from a zoom ms, into a guitar amp or pa, whatever we have the luxury of using.
* A drummer (albeit a different one from that video) with a bass/snare/floor tom/hi-hat/ride/crash set-up,
* A guitarist/vocalist (that's me!) which runs a bunch of pedals into a JC-40, and sometimes screams a bit, without a microphone.
Basically we wanna use room mics if possible, and avoid a close-mic dry sound. Our sound is pretty reverb-y, saturated, and open. Vocals should be barely noticeable, and sound like they're from far away, or like they're recorded in a snowstorm or something. The guitar should pretty much bury everything at full saturation, and otherwise it should be LOUD with the trumpet cracking through by virtue of residing mostly in a higher frequency range. And there's gonna be lots of guitar feedback. For the drums: everything should ring out a lot. No kick blanket, loud crashing cracked cymbals, &c. I guess the kick could/should be close-mic'd.
We'd like to do analogue recording, but probably digital mixing. Preferably 4 tracks, because, well, it's cheaper than 8. We wanna set everything up & play the entire tracks live, no overdubs. Basically we wanna capture what we sound like, not "produce a record" or whatever.
Any help appreciated. Feel free to ask for any clarification or whatever.