Recording A Live Concert

One nice thing about multitrack recording is if you have some spare channels on the mixer you can use them for some ambient/room mics, which will get recorded even if you don't route them to the LR mix. Im gonna be trying multitrack recording for the first time when we have a 9-piece chamber orchestra and two opera singers at our venue next week and I plan to use an ORTF stereo pair in front of the orchestra this way. Fingers crossed everything goes as planned!

The Soundcraft UI24r can record multitrack straight to usb stick. I use a 1TB SSD. You can also record in different formats.

A couple of months ago I was live recording our band, taking the output from the Soundcraft Signature mtk mixer into my new laptop via the USB. I setup reaper using 14 channels set it to record, looked at the laptop at the end of the concert and the laptop shutdown. I never gave it a thought about setting the power settings in the laptop to do not shutdown after 30 minutes. I learned the hard way 😡😡😡

The Presonus StudioLive Series iii mixers have both USB stick and USB laptop multitrack recording. I also include a recording of the room and audience on separate tracks for live ambience tracks in post processing.

At a basic level, do you suggest taking outs into Dante pre or post on-desk FX?

There’s a 32-track dual SD card expansion card available for the x32, if you’re using one as well. Awesome video ⭐️

Step 4 is multitrack mixer without a digital output (like those midas boards you mentioned) to a daw. Get a multichannel microphone splitter and plug all the mics into it. Each mic should have two outputs. One goes to the house system and the other goes to your multichannel interface. Then you connect your interface to your computer with a daw and record each mic individually.

Thanks for good video. We use A&H QU-series to make multitrack on USB. Qu is recording up to 18 channels, two L/R but it works great for us.

I am interested in shooting some freestyles. I am trying to record the audio directly from the djs equipment but would like the tracks separate so I can mix it down. I wouldn’t want it as a mp3. Any suggestions?