guitarboi89
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I’ve got three questions based on a single problem, here we go
I would like to record drums, but in my recording soundcard there’s only 4 inputs (delta 44) and I don’t want to upgrade for one session. The music doesn’t really suit the "stick two microphones up and hear exactly how the drum kit sounds" approach and more control later on sounds useful. In my computer there is also a two input soundcard built in.
Here’s my plan:
Use two overheads (recorder man style) and a kick and a snare mic and send them to the recording soundcard. Then also put triggers on the three toms, putting tom one completely left, tom two centre and tom three right and send the stereo track to the built in soundcard.
Before/After I will make my own samples of each tom close mic'ed and trigger them.
Here’s what I’m presuming you will ask:
Q: Why not mic up the toms properly?
A: Because I only have 4 channels of mic preamp, plus a small behringer mixer with one mic input. Also the built in soundcard sounds EVIL.
Q: Why not use someone else’s tom samples?
A: It is an option but I’m not sure how they will fit with the OH which will be my main drum sound.
So heres my questions:
Is it possibly to split a stereo signal into L, Centre and R? (Would this be called a midside decoder?)
How feasible is it to sample my drum kit? (Has anyone done it themselves for this reason?)
Will it be a problem running two asio soundcards (delta 44 and on board using asio4all) together? Will the recordings be out of sync?
Thanks in advance, Colm
I would like to record drums, but in my recording soundcard there’s only 4 inputs (delta 44) and I don’t want to upgrade for one session. The music doesn’t really suit the "stick two microphones up and hear exactly how the drum kit sounds" approach and more control later on sounds useful. In my computer there is also a two input soundcard built in.
Here’s my plan:
Use two overheads (recorder man style) and a kick and a snare mic and send them to the recording soundcard. Then also put triggers on the three toms, putting tom one completely left, tom two centre and tom three right and send the stereo track to the built in soundcard.
Before/After I will make my own samples of each tom close mic'ed and trigger them.
Here’s what I’m presuming you will ask:
Q: Why not mic up the toms properly?
A: Because I only have 4 channels of mic preamp, plus a small behringer mixer with one mic input. Also the built in soundcard sounds EVIL.
Q: Why not use someone else’s tom samples?
A: It is an option but I’m not sure how they will fit with the OH which will be my main drum sound.
So heres my questions:
Is it possibly to split a stereo signal into L, Centre and R? (Would this be called a midside decoder?)
How feasible is it to sample my drum kit? (Has anyone done it themselves for this reason?)
Will it be a problem running two asio soundcards (delta 44 and on board using asio4all) together? Will the recordings be out of sync?
Thanks in advance, Colm