Live Recording Using the T1 ToneMatch® Audio Engine Aux

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Live recording using T1 ToneMatch Audio Engine Auxiliary out.

There are already some recording results done by Clifford Henricksen. He made some live recordings of his band (The Cliff Henricksen Band]). Check them out Clifford Henricksen / New Kind of Recording Just a Heartbeat Away. He recorded his band with two microphones, and the result was great. But I wanted to record in another way. My goal was to find out what kind of results you get from using the auxiliary outputs of the T1 ToneMatch Audio Engine Auxiliary out.

What I did:

At the Paris fair of 2008 (Salon de la Musique Paris 2008 Pictures) we had 4 L1 Model IIs hooked up to 4 T1 ToneMatch Audio Engine s. Next I enabled the T1® auxiliary output. For the vocal (channel I) put it on 75%.

and the instruments (channel II) I put on 50%.

This gave a reasonable mix between the instruments and the vocals.

The four outputs

were hooked up to a Mackie Mixer and I mixed the 4 sources to the stereo output with the help of a Headphone (Bose QC2) and a computer to record. The recording program was Audacity, and the recordings were made over a 4 days period.

Some of the recordings (Gibson’s) we gave a second Studio Treatment (Compressing and Enhancing). Most of the others are not treated. Although the fact that these recordings are made on the fair with all of the ambient noise (a lot!), you can hardly hear it. On the other side, I’m missing the real live feeling. I think a combination of recording between two ambient mic’s and the auxiliary output will do the trick in the future.

I think that these recordings give an idea of what one could do with a multi-track recorder and two extra ambient mikes. Hopefully I will be able to make such a recording next time and share it with you.

Comments on the recordings:

Hohner	Two mikes Shure sm 58) connected to two systems.
Zimboom 1.	The 4 systems from left to right. a Solo Guitar and Vocal. (Slightly panned to the left) b Bass and Vocal. (Panned in the middle) c Electronic Drums and Vocal. (Panned in the middle) d Rhythm Guitar and Vocal. (Slightly panned to the right)
Zimboom 2	(See 1 and compressed in post production.)
Zimboom 3	(See 1 and extra Alt sax on output c.)
Taylor	One great player on one system.
All blues	(See 1 with acoustic guitars.)
Jam.	(See 4.)
Gibson 1	(with some postproduction.)
Gibson 2	(with some postproduction.)
Gibson 3	(with some postproduction.)