At 06:19 AM 02/02/2007, you wrote: <snip> > My tentative plan is to lay down the rhythm section tracks with > the players simply all in the room together but with phones, > then for the winds I'm considering using good quality monitors > to play back the rhythm tracks for them to play to. I feel > that if the playback is off access from the instrument mics I > can acheive good enough isolation for mixing/E.Q.ing later, but > probably not enough to have individual players correct performance > errors. (They are still going to have to get all the notes and > play in tune on the session day...) Alternately I could provide > phones if I recorded each section individually, but I'm concerned > that the feel of the group may suffer if pulled apart into to many > pieces. I think both you and the band will have problems with this method. Depending on the room and speaker placement, the bleed may or may not be a major mixing issue. But it could be very difficult for the horn players to work to pre-recorded rhythm tracks. 13 horns make a lot of noise, so the speaker level would need to be cranking for them to hear it. I'd suggest that, if the room can handle it, you record the whole band together and not worry about the bleed. Or, since this is all about the studio "experience", track the sections one at a time and give them phones. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Group Buy until Feb 22nd for Virtual Instruments Magazine! See http://logic-users.org/groupbuy/vimag for full details.