[bcresci]

I have my rig to the point that I really like the way it sounds live. We've recently begun recording multi-track at shows. Much to my surprise, the board recording sounds absolutely awful. Everything is pretty flat and sterile - all the channels really, not just the guitar. So to get the tracks to a state that they'd actually sound good to anyone seems to require some knowledge about how to mix a board recording. EQ - panning - effects, etc... At least that's my impression.

For those of you who post all these great sounding tracks - are you spending a good amount of time and know-how on mixing? Or do you get better boards than we do?

If anyone ever want to start a mixing section on RUKIND I know I would benefit from it greatly.

[playingdead]

I've gotten away from doing it lately but eventually I found the less I did with it regarding EQ, compression, and so forth on individual instruments, the better it sounded.

My basics were to mix the drums with a wide stereo spread -- we have two drummers, so I would hard pan the kicks right and left, pan the snares fairly hard right and left, hard pan the overheads on the drums, and do a spread of the toms from right to left. Bass is center. Keyboards pretty hard right, rhythm guitar pretty hard left, lead guitar just right of center, vocals with a slight stereo spread.

Put things on subgroups -- drums, vocals, instruments, bass. Playing Dead tends to dial it in the first couple of songs and volumes stay largely the same, so very little riding of faders is required.

I would put a very slight reverb on the vocals. A little multiband compression and slight limiting on the overall mix to get the levels up without it peaking like crazy.

[gr8fulbluz]

grate post Playin. Great sound from the video.
Like the original poster I have always wished I knew more. Even from my pure hobby-ist point of view.

[strumminsix]

Depends on your room... A large room with a quiet stage usually produces better board recordings.
When the board is simply reinforcement the mix is geared to what the room needs and sound "off".