The idea

 

 

Ok so I was looking online trying to find a way of actually being able to record the gig without any levels or EQ etc from the signal being sent to the PA and came across this site: http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/feb00/articles/livefaq.htm

 

In there it says that the simplest way is to use XLR splitters (i assume its pre-desk) on the inputs and hook it up to another desk.... Surely then I can just hook to the second, recording desk up to a multitrack recorder and record the signal without levels?

 

This is the idea.

I hope it will work.

 

"The simplest but crudest method is to make up a box containing several parallel mic splitters, each comprising an input XLR wired directly to two output XLRs. Providing your mics and DI boxes are all balanced, a simple splitter like this will allow each mic/DI box to feed both the PA and the recording mixer, but take care only to supply phantom power from one of the desks, not both! Some DI boxes have two separate buffered outputs, in which case these may be used instead of a splitter."