My band has recently become spread across the state. We used to practice once a week but that isn't feasible anymore. We bought an alesis masterlink in hopes of recording our practices so that we could practice to our songs that aren't on CD. I'm using good condensers and running them board/eq/masterlink.
Everything sounds fantastic....except the vocals. They sound very tinny. It doesn't sound this way in the room, only on the recording. I'm able to lessen the problem by knocking down the eq around 1k but it still exists. I just switched the polarity on one of the speakers tonight (one points at the drummer, one at the rest of us) wondering if they might be out of phase. The room itself has acoustic treatments on most the walls.
Any guesses why this might be happening?
I know I'm not going to be able to get studio quality but I'd like to be able to listen to it without being greatly annoyed.
If I can't figure it out, I think I'll take a direct out on each vocal channel and run them each into a new channel. Then, I'll be able to add them to the condensers while still being able to control the volumes of each independently (I have the condensers on a buss output). Does that make sense?
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
