Recording band in studio help needed

Hello guys,
 
Next month i have to record a band. The setup is a guitarist a bass player another strumming guitarist and drummer.
The keyboard parts and vocal will be recorded at home after the recordings.
 
How can i setup all of this to make a good recording into Sonar.
I have an external (usb) soundcard called Cakewalk Usb Audio Interface UA-1G
 
I can plugin a mic and a guitar into it. how can i record everything to a single track to process everything at home.
btw in the studio there will be a mixer (24 channels)
 
Thanx in advanced

I read the OP carelessly, and need to write this again.

Are you serious, Tieske, that in a studio you're going to, you must use your bedroom soundcard?

  If so, you don't have much options. You just need to mic everything properly and take the best takes you can.
Micing drums alone would require several pages to describe, so don't expect to get the instructions here. And proper drum recording would require a stereo track, but as Vigilant implies, you can't do that with your setup, unless you take the drums from the mixer to the PCs line input, which is stereo. In such a case you might need to record the drums separately, though.

You say all goes to one single track? Your soundcard can't create a stereo track so you'll need to do the stereo
effect artificially later with some kind of stereoizers. Don't expect too much of it.

Recording a band live is a demanding task. You do understand, that once you have it in your computer as one track, you can not mix it in any way, don't you? You can only EQ, compress and such. Unless you're very experienced engineers, don't expect to get a very high quality recording.

One option would be recording every instrument separately. Then you can edit and mix them normally.

Perhaps the mixer in the studio could also work as an audio interface?

Zonno


Hi Tieske,
 
If you want to, you can borrow my Phonic Helixboard 16 channel firewire mixer.
So you can record separate tracks into SONAR.
 
Then you'd need a DAW with a firwire interface.
I live in Utrecht, you can PM me, if you want.
 
Onno
 
He he thanx Onno i think the distance is to far i live near Maasticht :)
 
I mean i want to record every track seperatly so i can engineer it afterwards to a propper mix.
The whole band plays and i want 1 signal to record at eatch time.
 

If you guys are so good that you can play one instrument at a time, then do it. It's not gonna be nice and easy if you're not experienced. But do you even have enough microphones to record the drums properly through the studios 24-channel mixer?  And even if you do, the drums will end up on a mono track if you're tied to your soundcard.

Ric, I really don't think they intend to record each drum kitpiece separately!! One instrument at a time is normal studio practice, but if the guys have never done it before, they'll face a really hard session.