Beginner here. Multi-tracking / recording drums on PC
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Posted on Feb 08, 2006 12:23 am
ghostcrab
Member Since: Feb 08, 2006
Hey. Bare with me and my ignorance for I have just started delving into the world of recording on PC. Well, I should say in general. I've only fooled around a bit with analog. Things seem to be going fine for me as far as recording vocals and instruments... but I was thinking about recording drums today. How do I go about recording drums... let's say I have 4 mics: bass, snare, two overheads... and record them to the PC in four separate tracks? I know that if I had an interface with four inputs I could do so... such as a presnous firepod, but what's a cheaper alternative? Also, even with something like the firepod running all 4 mics into and then through firewire to the PC... how do I set it up in the recording software to create separate tracks? Thanks for anyone that read all of this and even more to anyone who answers!
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Feb 08, 2006 07:38 am Welcome to HRC, ghostcrab.
Another alternative would be the M-Audio Delta 44 or Delta 66 (the 66 if you want S/PDIF digital connections too). However, you would also need a mixer with 4 subout busses or four preamps to go before the sound card to preamp the mic signal. Any way you slice it, when you get into more than a couple mono or one stereo signal going in, the price goes up to do it.
All you do to record it is assign the track properties in your tracking app to a different input of your device, easy as heck...to be more specific you need to fill out your profile so we know what you have...
