"Good Day for the Blues"

[Blooby]

Another tune from the band Storyville from the same night as "Lucky." Still in the early stages of picking it out. Everett has the lead on this one.

Recorded live in the living room via a BR-1600.

Peace.

Blooby

[Geir]

Powerful performance !!!

You guys rock !!!

Love how you make every performance so dynamic !!

[Bluesberry]

Now, that is nice.  I could go on and on, write pages of words on why I love this performance of yours.  Damn that guy can sing.  Instead of writing all those words I am just going to shut-up and listen.  Damn fine guys, damn fine.  Don't you wish you could sing like that Blooby, I sure do.

[Vanncad]

Great band to cover, and you guys do a mighty fine job of it.
Love the guitar tones. Your singer has a great set of pipes too!

Would love to see you guys do a bar gig.

Good stuff here Blooby!

[Oldrottenhead]

i want a chair in your living room, magic.

[Facemask93]

Good stuff as usual Blooby , what kind of preparations do you make before a recording , ie , do you seperate people with partitions or baffles , do you have a set procedure in mic'ing instruments , what about the recording engineer , is it you , or do you have someone to monitor levels while you play , come on , spill the beans , we want more info

Rob

[SE]

Cracking blues cover this is quality, sounds so good, could listen to plenty of great music like this, magic.

[Blooby]

Thanks for the comments, folks.

Do you separate people with partitions or baffles , do you have a set procedure in mic'ing instruments , what about the recording engineer , is it you , or do you have someone to monitor levels while you play , come on , spill the beans , we want more info

I just set levels and leave them. As long as they're not clipping, I can remix them however I want.

In a nutshell, all signals go into a discrete channel of the Boss BR-1600 where they are mixed and panned for monitoring purposes. I run the signal out through a couple Tapco monitors (or one time, through two headphone distribution amps). The drums are courtesy of an electronic Yamaha DTXpress IV (the only instrument recorded in stereo). Bass is recorded through a Line 6 Pocket Pod.  Guitars are recorded through a pair of Line 6 XTLive units. Keys go direct. The only live mic is from the vocals, and we don't baffle or isolate the singer.  We do, however, play at a reasonable volume. It results in less bleed into that channel and less bleeding from our eardrums. Occasionally, I'll set up a sub-mixer. Multiple keyboards get panned hard right and go in one channel of the recorder and up to four microphones get panned hard left and go into the remaining open channel of the the recorder. That has proven to be a pain in the rear, so I quit doing that.

While I'm doing 90% of setting up, I'm not traveling or lugging equipment, and the other guys like it because they aren't hauling any amps or drums. Luckily, our current drummer isn't too freaked out about the electronic set. The final aspect of it is that I'm using a recorder and not just a mixer, so we always end up with decent sounding recordings of our practices. FYI, instead of loading up a new file for each song, I quickly flip to the next virtual track for the 8 input channels on the BR-1600.  Cuts down on downtime that way.

Blooby

[danieldesete]

Yes a really catchy tune, good job guys

[Facemask93]

Thanks for the heads up Bruce , i sometimes lose track of what things i've commented on , so when you say discrete channel , what does that actually mean

Rob