Live sound used to be my last option in the field when I first started in the audio industry, however now it's one of the fields I work on the most. Being a live sound engineer is fun, it only happens one time and it becomes legendary. Guts is a small punk band from Las Vegas, I've enjoyed their music since their last release as a former band. I was honored to be part of the mixing process for their new album Matches Malone and then I was happy to be able to record them at one of their show. They're are full of energy and it was an amazing experience.
For the microphones I used a Samson 7Kit with the One Q for the kick, two Q Tom mics for the toms, an SM57 for the snare and the SM 81 pair for the overheads. For the guitars an SM57 was placed on the amps, all mics were placed with the close micing technique. Finally, the bass and vocals were connected directly to the console. For the console we're using a PreSonus StudioLive 16.0.2 digital mixer. Every track was recorded into ProTools through the firewire connection. The two main outputs on the console went to the PA which only got the signal from the vocals. There was not many effects going into the recording. Only a small amount of compression was used for the drums and the vocals.
The set up took about 30 minutes and the set was about one hour. The band had some covers and some original songs. The only faders that I was careful to look after was the vocals because some times the crowd would get a hold of the microphone. One of the overhead mics was knocked over at one point but quickly set back in position during the performance.
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