So we’re giving a try at recording again. Probably first time in maybe 2-3 years. Unfortunately it’s not completely like riding a bike. Some of it comes back, and some it involves googling a bunch of stuff that I used to know how to do, lol.
MIDI seems to be the biggest culprit. We use V drums, and I’ve always recorded them via MIDI. Otherwise you just get a stereo track of the entire kit. Snare not loud enough? Too bad. Kick needs compression? Better hope the compression sounds good on everything else in the kit. With MIDI you can use a Sonar feature that splits each note (in this case each item in the kit) to an individual track. From there I record each track to audio, and can then do whatever I want with - pan, volume, effects, etc.
Anyway, we got the drum track down last week. Tonight is the guitars - probably two acoustic tracks and one electric.