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Live Recording!
I started to do my Live recording with the instruments / gadgets available at the place. I wanted to help my fellow musicians / sound engineers / hobbyist to learn 2 cents out of my experience on live recording. Intially I thought it was a easy stuff to do a live recording. Later I came to know the problems we should understand before getting on with Live recording.
Tip 1:
Always try to maintain the master level in your recording software / gadget between -6 to -4 db. It always helps us to avoid clipping of audio data. It is very hard to restore a clipped / badly distorted audio data.
In my first Live audio recording with the help of 16 Channel Allen & Heath -> USB Audio interface (MAudio FastTrack pro 4×4), I was able to make a good recording of the Live Worship. There were ofcourse some grey areas where I have missed few things because of clipped data.
So always maintain audio levels at the optimum between (-4 to -6 db).
Tip 2:
Try to use a powered public address system if you feel that there are some ambient noise at outdoors. The sound from the powered public address system would reduce some amount to ambient noise from outside.
This idea I gained when I was recording a live worship. It was raining heavily outside. The recording did not happen in a recording studio, rather it happened in a house. because of the Powered PA system the recording went on fine. Nothing wrong in trying it, if you felt that this tip was useful. leave me a comment.
Tip 3:
If padding option is available in your audio interface. Better use them when you do live recording. It may look like your recording volume seems to be very low. When you normalize the audio data then it would become a clean recording.
Tip 4:
For heavy metal, rock music / aggressive vocals you may consider using a compressor / limiter.
As my knowledge improves I would try and update this post 
Happy live recording!
Looking back at 2009
Year 2009 was quite challenging. I was able to do lots of new things at 2009. Here are the list of things I have learnt over 2009. First I have started with iPhone programming and for that I have bought a new macbook for working in iPhone programming. I had a Canon FS100 camcorder and I wanted to download my videos on my macbook. I was attracted by the iMovie and started to learn very basics on Video editing.
The passion for Video editing kicked off and I started to carve for more on video editing. I bought Final cut Express to get into editing. By the time I took few videos I understood that I need some good quality sound. So I went for an inexpensive external audio interface (MAudio Fast Track Pro). I did few Live recording of Audio. This put me a flare on Audio editing. I was not able to afford for a Mac pro / Macbook Pro for my video / audio editing stuff. I bought a Mac mini which is really helpful to accomplish my video editing tasks.
By gods grace I was able to edit 2 Christian Video Albums as a beginner and the outcome was so professional. I was wondering how I was able to make it and finally understood the person behind my work. The person is no one other that Jesus Christ. He was kind enough and by his grace I was able to accomplish great things with minimal resource available.
And on my spiritual side of my life I was bit slow due to some personal reasons which put me down always when I tried to come out of it with my strength I was not able to get out of it. However God didn’t let me go down. He lifted me up and gave me a new strength and his love. The turbulence in my life made me lose all my loved ones but by the end of 2009 things were back to normal and my loved ones came back to me and now I am happy and thankful to my savior who has done this work for me.
The promise that Lord has given me this year was “For I am the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed. (Malachi 3:6 ~ KJV )“. Here is me wishing you a peaceful year 2010.