Live Recording Results and Analysis

I feel that my live recordings were partially successful, I feel that my microphone selections were effective in minimising bleed and spill in most instances however I feel that I could have paid more attention to effectively isolating each source and researching effective sound isolation for live recording more thoroughly may have helped achieve this. I utilised sound reflection boards to section off the drum kit as I feel the drums would have caused the most spillage in the recording.

There were however problems that arose as regards to properly isolating the bass and guitar amplifiers and they couldn't be moved from their positions and I had to rely on microphone positioning to try and compensate for this. I feel that the vocals perhaps could have been isolated more effectively as there was a lot of sound spillage onto the vocal microphone. This could also perhaps have been due to my microphone choice, perhaps the large diaphragm Se2200t wasn't the best choice as it would have picked up more spill than perhaps a small diaphragm condenser. 

These issues were rectified by automating the vocal channel in sections in which it they became particularly lost. I also need to apply relatively extreme EQ settings to several channels in order to try and remove frequencies of sources bleeding into each microphone (for example bass guitar was being picked up on various microphones and several high pass filters had to be applied) I had to ensure that I didn't effect the frequencies the sound sources occupied. 

Gates were applied to the drums, however were not effective in isolating any spillage on any of the other sources, therefore it is evident that if I were to approach live recording again in the future I would perhaps as I previously mentioned spend more time concentrating on correctly isolating each individual sound as opposed to relying solely on microphone choices and positioning. I feel that a combination of both methods would have perhaps vastly improved my live recordings.