Any Advice :)

[10571z]

hey tommorow im off to record a band's demo... her is the equipment i have its very basic but i usually get a clear sound defined sound good enuff for a demo.....

6 vocals mic's all pretty cheap ones.....
8 track mixer
laptop
acid 4.0

im planning to go the line out of the bass amp.... mic the 2 guitars.... mic the drums.... and then do vocals over......

is there any advice you can give me to get a better sound at all??? tips or anything thanks guys :)

p.s im recording a rock band...

[super_kick08]

if you can before tomarrow pick up maybe a new microphone...(sm57) but if not then you can make it work....now if your recording track by track, which im sure you are, record drums first... put a mic on the snare, on the toms (if desired), two over head for cymbals. since there dynamic mics put em pretty high above the cymbals other wise you'll have some horrible clipping(make sure the high is up a bit on the mixer) and for the bass drum a cheap dynamic mic may not cut it ...but you can get a better ambeient sound...in other words put the mic towards the bass drum but back a few feet....experiment with the sound on that...get what you like..then do bass line in, it'll sound decent...guitar might be hard too but just experment with the sound you'll find something you like...and vocals just sing right into the mic..not much you can do with out a condinser mic...tell me when your done and i can help a bit with mixing

[10571z]

thanks..... for that... sm57 are alot of money in australia like 150+ i think so yeh i dont have much cash atm.. but in the future ill pic on up

[super_kick08]

yea no problem..post some music after its recorded

[10571z]

http://www.myspace.com/trashnchaos

the song called "new rock and rolll dis.."
i didnt record the others....

p.s this band is wierd