In addition to being an Associate Editor at [WM], especially when it comes to intonation. To be no. Unless you’re doing a live recording or are
Michael Hodge is also on staff at Lakewood able to pull up someone’s vocal in a program capturing ‘scratch tracks’ to replace later in
Church. Michael has produced and worked as like Melodyne, and for them to be able to see, the recording process, the drums are generally
a session player on countless records, and his “Oh, I’m consistently going flat…” and then to the singular thing you want to track in your
insights are priceless… realize what they’ve got to do really nail notes. sanctuary. As ominous as that sounds, the
For drummers, bass players, and guitar players, sanctuary is one of the best places to record
[WM] When people think about recording, they’re able to see if they’re playing with a click drums in that there is often no set up or tear
they tend to focus on the resulting material. That or recording to a loop, they can see how their down required, and in theory your drummer is
said, there are a number of other byproducts parts line up on the grid. already used to playing to a click. Well placed
that are equally if not more valuable for a team.
drums mics don’t tend to have the ruinous
What are some of the most obvious benefits IS YOUR SANTUARY A STUDIO? bleed you can get in vocal mics, so week in and
that come to mind? While the natural acoustics in your sanctuary week out you’ve got a great location to record.
can potentially make for great sound on
[Michael Hodge] Recording a worship Sunday morning, they tend to be the antithesis Since you’re probably already mic’ing the
team in the church is a fantastic opportunity of what is needed for an optimal recording. drums, the biggest challenge you’ll face initially
to grow as a worship team. First of all, when One of the main reasons that two-track board is how to capture them, and that’s where the
a team is recording together it’s team building. mixes tend to sound dry, is that you’re hearing magic of Dante can be a huge help. To unpack
It’s relationship building, there can be a real the sound of the vocalists and instruments from what this looks like, we’ve enlisted the help
camaraderie and an amazing excitement when the microphones, and not how they actually fill of Jeff Hawley, USA Marketing Manager for
people hear themselves and what they did. the room once amplified through P.A. speakers. Allen & Heath.
Unless your FOH engineer is a drummer, you’ll
Secondly, it gives people a chance to realize also tend to find that the drums to be a bit [WM] Jeff, when we met up at NAMM we
how good or bad they are in terms of playing lacking because of how loud they are in the spent a lot of time talking about how easy
together. Are the parts clashing? Are there room. If you were able to isolate the sound Dante makes it to get multi-channel audio from
dynamics? Recording is like using a mirror to sources you’d soon discover that the drums the stage to the FOH console with a single
shave and put your hair together. Without one, are ‘bleeding’ into the vocal mics, which is CAT 6 cable. We also touched on some of the
you can probably do it, but you never really pretty much a studio disaster. downstream implications of where that data
know for sure what the end result is gonna be.
Young singers will really benefit from recording,
could end up, including capturing that data for
So, the answer to the questions is yes and
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use in multi-track recording. Can you give us a
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