We're a 4 piece for this excursion. Drums, upright and electric bass, acoustic guitar and me on vocals, second acoustic or piano. I was concerned about bleed but it's turned out pretty well. Thankfully our drummer has a light touch.
I went to town with gobos to create little forts for each player (see the photos below). It worked really, really well. There's some drum bleed in the acoustic guitar mics and vocal but it's totally manageable and way less than I would have expected given the size of the room.
Everyone except me was on headphones. Even without them I could hear everything very well.
Guitars mics were an AKG D224 on one and an RE15 on the other.
Vocal was an RE20
Piano was a Realistic PZM taped to the lid mixed with a Barcus Berry piano pick-up.
Bass was 414 in fig 8 jammed between the tailpiece and body of the upright as well as the pick-up into an Ampeg Portaflex pre-amp clone into a DI. Electric bass was just the Portaflex/DI.
Drums were a single 414 OH in fig 8, M88s on toms, E602 on kick and a Western Electric Salt Shaker on snare.
In the photos the acoustic is behind the green gobo on the right, piano/vocal/ac gtr 2 is behind the tall blue gobo on the left. I hung shipping blankets off of a tall mic stand behind the vocal station to try to keep any cymbal splash from bouncing off of the back wall into the mic.
Unfortunately I don't have photos of the drum set-up. They were in the corner in front of the piano/vocal station with two 4' high gobos behind against each wall and another on an angle across the front of the kit.
The upright was next to the drums on the same side as the acoustic.
I'll link mixes once this thing is all done. Hopefully this can serve as inspiration for others to embrace the bleed and track live. With a bit of prep it can work beautifully.
Vocals/piano/Ac 2 on the left, Ac GTR 1 on the right. Drum mics waiting to get placed. You can also just see the 414 under the upright tailpiece.
Acoustic station
Vocal/piano/Ac GTR 2 station
