Hey Catters...

I have a very very basic acoustic duo on the go, two male vocals sharing lead/harmonies, and one acoustic guitar. We would like to record one of our shows live, and have in fact tried it with poor results. I have a standard tape deck that I have plugged directly into the Tape Out jacks on our powered mixer, but the levels seem all over the place. I realize the output would be based on the levels we have on the mixer, so it wouldn't translate the same way as out of our speakers. My deck doesn't have much for settings and I can't afford a DAT deck.... would it work using the monitor output (we don't usually use one, and the mixer has separate monitor EQ's so we can play a bit with the output)?

secondly, I would like to mic the crowd -- should I use an uni-directional mic pointed out to them to try to counter the speaker output looping back through, or do I try to suspend a omni-directional mic above them and not worry about the looping?

any help would, well, help.

Brian, Singer Ordinaire...