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I plan on recording one of my band's jams this friday, and I'm taking a Presonus Stereo Preamp, MXL large diaphragm mic, and perhaps an SM57, and my storage will be a portable mini disc recorder that will be run in stereo.

Here's my idea-I can plant the SM57 over the drum set, and the MXL will cover the amps and the sax. Both are cardiod type mics so I'll try to spot out places so that their fields don't collide and the sounds spill over.

If I run one mic for drums and the other for instrumentation into the stereo preamp so it comes out stereo left and right on the mini disc recorder, would it be possible to pan left on my mixer at my studio at home to get just guitars and sax to mix it down into cakewalk Sonar, then pan right and mix the drums down? This way I would record two independent tracks and I would have more control over mastering, etc. Would the idea work?

I've done 'shoddy' recordings like this before with one mic and it has come out pretty decent with two guitars and drums, I was just wondering if the stereo idea would work. This is going to be my backup demo just in case we don't get our professional demo done before this battle of the bands at school. I have a plethora of mics and a 16 track mackie mixer, Sonar 4, a monster PC, a delta 1010 interface, and 3 tube preamps at my home studio, but I'll just have to make the best out of this other recording since I won't be able to get the whole band to my house.

yeah that would kind of do what you want, but, you'll still have a lot of bleed, and you might get some pretty bad cancellation on the low frequencies. Make sure the full band sounds good when you listen to the feeds into both mics simultaneously. If you listen to just the inst. mike, then bring in the drum mike, the snare and kick might start to sound thin from phase cancellations. repositioning the mic can keep your drums fat.