Need Help..Cant find anything

[Stingray]

Heres the situation,

For a while now me and my housemates have been running a studio that we have setup in a room at our house. The recordings we produce have sounded very nice and with each month our equipment gets better or more up to date. We also have some very top of the line nice sounding rigs and drums kits to record with
(the benifit of everyone adding a little something to the room).

The problem is ive grown very tired of the process of how we record. One track at a time so as each track is its own separate entity and there is no bleed through.

This process is long and annoying. And although the sound is amazing in the end (quality wise) there are many issues with timing and synchronization between tracks as well as some other minor issues.

I would like to know if anyone out there has a studio setup to record simultaneously in the same room with all players at once, with little bleed through from track to track. I understand that there will be some because of the situation but what is the bestway to do this

Thanks for the help

 

[bluestarbass]

If what your doing sounds great why change? Although, Im super into experimenting so heres a few things to try:

A. Play in the room together and say screw bleed, it will actually sound cool. Getting that perfect take may be un nerving though. Wanna replace a cymbal in the mix, cant do it. Wanna change the guitar tone, cant do it. You have to be awesome right out of the box.

B. Have everyone in the same room, mic the drum set and send all the other instruments to DIs or amp modelers then everyone gets a headphone mix

C. Personally I like this one the best. Put the amps in other rooms with mics on them. Run really long guitar cables into one room with the drums. Play all together using headphones.

Bleed can be your friend with a really tight tight band. If you guys do alot of editing it wont work well.

 

[DocBop]

Small amps. lots of baffles, maybe move some amps to another room, but players are together in one room. Maybe not worry about leakage and just get a good work track down with good time and feel. Use that to start redo'ing tracks with at least the time and feel should survive all the overdubs.

I remember one guy for his home studio to save space covered all his baffles with nice looking cloth so when not recording he hung them on the walls like pictures. Saved space and were there when needed to record.

 

[Plain Old Me]

If you want to use DIs its pretty simple to just plug em into a multi track or interface, but if you want to mic stuff up you could just put em in different rooms and hope you have decent acoustics.

 

[hunta]

You can all play in the same room and have the end product sound good. I've recorded a full band with 2 guitars in one room with poor acoustic treatment, and I still managed to isolate everything pretty well even without any isolation panels. As long as the room you're recording in isn't really bouncy, you can just point the amps away from each other (try to factor in sound reflection as much as possible). You'll get some bleed but it should be manageable if you experiment.

Close mic as much as possible, gate the drums, record the vocals later if possible.