Members captions87 Posted July 11, 2012 Members Share Posted July 11, 2012 My band recorded this a few weeks ago. Used three iPhone 4 and video camera+, as well as our drummer's digital camera. Mixing done in Logic. We plan to do a couple more vids this coming weekend, with different/more angles, and better isolation of some of the instruments/amps. [video=youtube;M3L63ySge34]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3L63ySge34&hd=1 That being said, as you can hear, there's a bit of bleed coming into the vocal mics of the drums. I went through and automated volume and added a noise gate to cut down on it, considering on this song in particular I use two separate delays, not reverbs, so it seems a lot more noticeable. Which brings me to my question. Would it be a terrible idea to find a decent noise gate pedal, and use it with my vocal fx pedal to cut down on outside noise? Are guitar noise gates worse/better/same than a noise gate made for recording? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members lz4005 Posted July 11, 2012 Members Share Posted July 11, 2012 If you're multi-tracking, why don't you just dump the live vocal track and have the singer re-record it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members jw10 Posted July 11, 2012 Members Share Posted July 11, 2012 If you're multi-tracking, why don't you just dump the live vocal track and have the singer re-record it? +1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members captions87 Posted July 12, 2012 Author Members Share Posted July 12, 2012 Ehh, i'd rather it be the take we did live as a whole band, just simplifies everything, without having yet another thing that might not line up with the video right, making it obvious that it's not the same take. Also, the noise gate question pertained to live playing in general, not just for the purpose of these vids. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members SLScott86 Posted July 12, 2012 Members Share Posted July 12, 2012 If you're multi-tracking, why don't you just dump the live vocal track and have the singer re-record it? Boooooooooooooooooo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members FitchFY Posted July 12, 2012 Members Share Posted July 12, 2012 Boooooooooooooooooo What he said! Keep it live, bro! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members SLScott86 Posted July 12, 2012 Members Share Posted July 12, 2012 Boooooooooooooooooo I posted that before watching the video. I now think two things. 1. It sounds just fine2. With that much reverb on the vocals (pet peeve of mine, but obviously popular so to each their own), nobody would notice sync issues if you opted to re-record it. Nice work! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members captions87 Posted July 12, 2012 Author Members Share Posted July 12, 2012 I posted that before watching the video. I now think two things.1. It sounds just fine2. With that much reverb on the vocals (pet peeve of mine, but obviously popular so to each their own), nobody would notice sync issues if you opted to re-record it.Nice work! Thanks...but now what about actual live playing, like at gigs? Guitar noise gate pedal be okay???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members SLScott86 Posted July 12, 2012 Members Share Posted July 12, 2012 Thanks...but now what about actual live playing, like at gigs? Guitar noise gate pedal be okay???? The bleed probably won't hurt anything. More than likely the drums will be mic'd wherever you're playing anyway. But if a gate is needed, perhaps for the purpose of the reverb, I would go with a vocal processor. I think digitech makes a fairly reasonable one. And then you could have your own sound regardless of whose PA you're using. A guitar gate would seem to work fine with the right cables and boxes. Haha- sorry I didn't read all if your question. The delays... Yeah... I'd go with a processor with a built-in gate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members captions87 Posted July 12, 2012 Author Members Share Posted July 12, 2012 The bleed probably won't hurt anything. More than likely the drums will be mic'd wherever you're playing anyway. But if a gate is needed, perhaps for the purpose of the reverb, I would go with a vocal processor. I think digitech makes a fairly reasonable one. And then you could have your own sound regardless of whose PA you're using. A guitar gate would seem to work fine with the right cables and boxes. I'm actually using a TC Helicon Voicetone Create, which is what I was using for the vid and for live gigs. The problem is, smaller stages means less separation between me and the drummer and that usually ends up in some excessive bleed/feedback problems on some of the songs, and the Voicetone doesn't have a built-in noise gate feature that I'm aware of. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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