#176: How To Record A Live Show - Pro Tips for Capturing the Heart and Soul of Your Band's Performance

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Episode show notes:

Recording your live shows is a great idea for many reasons. 

It shows you the honest and brutal truth and the recordings can be used as great content in between your actual releases.

But unfortunately, most bands do it in a less-than-ideal way.

So let us help you out and show you a few proven approaches to capturing your live performances, so you can get exactly the results you want.

When I was still doing live sound, artists would come to me all the time and ask:

"Hey, can we just get the main outs from the board? We have this recorder/thumb drive/etc. and we'd love to capture our show tonight!"

Not a good idea. At least in most cases. And on this episode we'll explain exactly why that is.

And we'll show you better ways to record your shows. 

There are a few different approaches that could work for you, depending on what you want and why you're recording your live show:

• GoPro / phone / cam 
• Main outs from FOH mixer
• Separate mix from FOH mixer
• Multitracks from FOH mixer
• A pair of mics / field recorder
• Splitter box/rack + laptop / recorder to grab XLRs direct on stage (great for personalized and self managed IEM mixes too!)

We'll discuss all of those and more on the show and walk you through how to set it all up. After listening you'll know the pros and cons of each method and can pick the one that works for you.

And finally, we're giving you a few extra pro tips to get the most out of these recordings and make them sound as exciting as your actual live shows:

• Adding audience mics
• Adding "recording only" mics
• Why and how to keep the stage volume quiet
• Using multiple camera angles and what to watch out for in terms of video/audio sync
• Mic technique (especially vocals)
• Gain staging / headroom

Let's go!

-Benedikt

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