Need help recording drums w/only 2 channels

> > > Need help recording drums w/only 2 channels

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Member Since: Mar 08, 2004

Okay I have a problem. I am recording some drum tracks tommorrow. I have only 2 channels on my sound card. The one good thing is I have a 16 channel Mackie mixer.

Everytime I've tried recording drums they just sound blah. And if the do sound good by themselves they sound like crap in the mix.

I really wish I could record all the mics to their own tracks but this is all I got.

Here are the mics I have.
2 SM57's
2 PEavey PVi2's
3 Samson Dynamics mics
1 CAD Condenser.

Also the mixer is a Mackie CFX-16

Any advice would be great.

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Since: Apr 03, 2002

Dec 05, 2004 07:52 pm

1 57 on the snare/hat, some of the samsons over the toms between toms and cymbals, something in/on the kick, not sure what to choose there and put the condensor as an overhead. Mix to a decent stereo image and run that in to your sound card.

If they end up sounding like crap in the the MIX then you just have to EQ the tracks to open some space for them...

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