Drum recording

[Comatr1p]

I need some serious help here! This may be a dumb question but I'm just starting to get into this. Here's the deal. I'm try'n to record my drum tracks into Acid 3.0. I'm simply using the cpu, mixer and mics. heres the question: I want to be able to have each drum to be on it's own track instead of just one track of drums. I know the obvious way to do it is to record each drum seperatly in different takes but I was wondering if there is a way to get acid to split the drums on its own OR to quantize (i think thats what its called, I'm just learning so correct me if I'm wrong) multiple tracks so that their all in time. Am I thinking in the right mind frame here or is thins a lost cause? If there is an easier way other than what I'm tring please tell me cuz I'm going nuts here! Thanx for the help!

[Whoopysnorp]

Drum recording is complex. To do what you're describing, you can either record each piece of the kit separately (which will be very hard and tedious and probably will sound unpleasant), or you can put up a number of mics on the kit (this can vary) and record them through a multichannel sound card. Personally, I put up two Marshall MXL603s as overheads, a Shure SM57 on the snare and between the rack toms, and a Sennheiser e602 on the kick. I let the overheads pick up as much floor tom as they can. That's five mics, which I record to four channels. I plug them into a 12 channel mixer and mix the tom mic in with the overheads, so there are two tracks for overheads with toms in them, one track for kick, and one for snare. I record this into my 4-input/output Delta 66 sound card. As you can imagine, this is a somewhat expensive proposition. But you can cut corners in a lot of places and still have something usable.

[Blue Bear Sound]

An old thread of mine may help you with your drum tracking setup... (but it doesn't get into any DAW stuff)

http://homerecording.com/bbs/showthr...threadid=23824

Bruce

[Comatr1p]

Thanx for the help guys. I need to pick ur brains one last time. I can't seem to get Acid 3.0 to record from my line jack. How do I tell Acid to read the line in instead of the mic jack? I have the same problem with Cool Edit also. Thanx again!

[Whoopysnorp]

Double click on the little yellow speaker icon in your system tray. Then go to Options/Properties, and there should be a little radio button selector for playback/recording. Select recording, and then you can select whether it should record from MIDI, mic, line, or whatever. This will affect all your software, so you don't have to do it multiple times.

[Comatr1p]

Easy enough! Thanx for the help man!!