Recording drums....
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Posted on Aug 15, 2005 02:13 pm
TallChap
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Member Since: Jun 24, 2004
Okay, here's the deal. The time has come to record some drums. I have an E-Mu PCI0404 sound card. I have a Behringer MX802 type mixer, and I have two Boss Br532's available.
If i want to record the drums as separate entities, rather than a stero mix, how would I accoplish this? I could record left/right tracks on both BR532's, and import the wave files later and drop into Cubase. That way I could, conceivably have control of kick, snare, hat, and an overall of the rest of the kit.....
Help......
I never thought this would happen. I've sworn off bands........
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jmailjimmie neutronMember
Since: Feb 14, 2005
Aug 16, 2005 06:53 am I've never recorded with any of the gear you've listed, but, you could try the two over-head, slightly in front of the kit so you catch a bit of the kick, pan hard left & right. Use those 2 as scratch tracks to monitor with and overdub the other parts individually and mix with the original 2 tracks. A fellow I know did that a while back, and it worked. But the effort put forth and time involved... Others on here have suggested adding sampled drums on top of your recorded drum tracks.
Another method would be to use one mic to get the kick and the other as a single overhead. Record the two and then copy the overhead track to make a fake stereo image of overheads...
It's not easy getting a drum kit in a 2 channel card, is it? Of course, using the mixer to add as many mics as you can, and pre-mixing the levels prior to recording might be the best sounding alternative, and then do any sample-adding or overdubbing, if necessary?
Good luck. And remember... have fun!
Aug 16, 2005 07:13 pm So I would take the over heads into the mixer, and then the stereo outs into your soundcard. I know the boss has 1 XLR in, so i would take the kick track into one boss, and the snare into another. If the Boss has line inputs as well, you could use extra dynamic mics with them.
It might be quite hard to allign the tracks when you bring them back into the computer. If you can, try to stick a 1kHz sine tone in on each input when you start recording, but before the drums come in. When you import the files, you'll be able to see the same tone on each of your tracks that starts and finishs at the same time. Also, dont stop the recording, keep it running, but write down what time's the best takes were.
