Anyone experienced with producing live bands?

[jclarkeiv]

I'm helping a friend on a non dubstep project, I would really appreciate some advice on producing live instruments. Seeing as this isn't a dubstep related question I would gladly discuss this via PM.
Here is one of the tracks:
Soundcloud

[Sharmaji]

producing or recording? or both?

[Hircine]

same question and more important, what instrument? do you want to mix it or just do the tone/sound work?

[hudson]

I've produced, recorded and mixed a few bands... What do you want to know?

[Earjax]

I've helped produce music for bands before What genre you producing, what are you recording and are you literally just mixing for them?

[Alistairr]

i tired to produce a band once, it was a duo from somewhere, they wouldnt listen to my advice, twas a waste of time and energy, the end.

[wormcode]

Along with what was already asked, by producing do you mean standard rock/pop producing as in being a sort of project leader for them who guides them and tells them how to play, or do you mean engineering which is what is mostly known as 'producing' in the electronic music realm.

One major tip I would give is if you will be doing any recording of instruments and vocals then record everything! Record practising/jamming/rehearsals. Most musicians from my experience will play or sing their best when they think they aren't being recorded yet. So don't tell them you're already rolling.

[jclarkeiv]

essentially I'm mostly doing mixing work I suppose. They had a recent opportunity to perform in a sound treated studio as a band. They paid a guy that had the sound equipment to record them to record them. Now I have 13 stems that total almost 2 hours of audio. I am chopping the stems into individual tracks and mixing levels. The track In my first post is just one of the many from the recordings. I think his end goal is to create a live record. There style is a blend of blues, rock, psychedelic, and funk. They like to play like a jam band though which is why he wanted a live album.

[Sharmaji]

were i producing them i'd get into some serious conversations about the micro and macro-- everything from favorite guitars and cymbals to arrangement ideas to festivals you want to play, and how we go about making the record that's going to best bring all of that together. Mixing is way easier than all of that, no doubt.

In the case of the track you posted, i'd listen to Jack White's stuff-- everything from the white stripes to the raconteur's to the Dead Weather-- and get a vibe on those sonics. No one's making better-sounding rock records right now. As a mixer, your job is to make the recorded material sound its absolute best-- subjective, for sure, but there's a lot of ways to go about it.

[jclarkeiv]

I like when I get advice I've already done, I own everything Jack White has ever been involved with. I even have some of his vinyl, to bad I don't have a nice turntable...