Recording Live

• Try to locate the mixer in a different room to the
performance to avoid distraction from the live sound.
If this is not possible, use a good pair of noise-excluding
headphones for monitoring.
• Wherever possible, take feeds from mic splitters - this
will provide clean, low-noise signals suitable for
recording.
• Often, Tape Sends are unbalanced, so keep signal paths as
short as possible between output and recorder to avoid
interference.
• If there aren’t enough microphones, use a stereo pair to
pick up the overall sound and the rest to emphasize
individual performers.
• Use a compressor/limiter to avoid overloading the digital
input of the recorder.