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Ive found this out the hard way, i jumped in head first and i was wayy over my head, i think im gonna cut back to 4 mics and learn from there cause ive gotten so frustrated ive considered giving up recording drums all together. but i think im gonna cut down the amounht of mics i use and hope...

so i recently got my hands on a decent pair of noise cancelling headphones and holy crap what a difference, i think ive got a decent comprehension on where i screwed up and how to fix it

I'm looking for a mic I can use to record my hi hat other then using an over head mic, any suggestions? And would the AT2021 be a good choice?

Is that VST free?

Mostly recording alternative/heavy rock, metal, and occasionally some hip hop beats when requested

That make perfect sense thank you, are there any VST plugin gates you'd suggest that I could download and put into my DAW?

I'm kinda new at recording especially drums and I'm finding out I need a noise gate, can anyone explain what I need to generally know to apply an effective noise gate?

I was using my AT2021 about an inch away from the amp of center of the speaker and the only thing I have on the master track is a slight delay I believe

For the guitar and bass I'm micing the amps, playing clean then adding distortion to the guitars, and for the drums I'm actually doing it right out of my DAW it's mixcraft 5 I type it all out

I understand that, I appreciate that you took the time to write out the sticky, I have read it and it actually answers every question I had and some others that I thought of

Jesus I guess knowledge and experience really can turn someone into an arrogant prick

Well thank you for responding to my joke like asses, and thank you dogbreath and guitarplyr82 for your advice, all very helpful :)

i shall give it a look and let you know asap thats pretty lengthy :P

My bass drum mic is going to be a KM212 dynamic cardioid kick drum mic, im actually going out sometime this week and buying a CAD PRO-7 drum mic kit, im a fresh newbie when it comes to recording mostly everything

Any tips or tricks anyone may wanna share about recording drums? Mainly how to cut down on the ring out from drums that already have an e-ring, and how would I get a clicky tight bass drum sound with recording

i mean the guitar track was played and then duplicated, and being that ive only been really attempting to " mix " songs for about a week now, yes i noticed it but no i didnt know how to fix it, thats kinda why im here, to learn what i dont from the people who have been doing this sort of thing...

i actually havent had the opportunity to try that out yet, where i am all i have are some headphones, or my laptop speakers, where im going will have a much more diverse selection, an what did you mean by, maybe my own ears could be the problem?

that underlined sentence is probably the best advice ive ever gotten just saying, and so would you suggest bringing up the high end in the guitars a bit and readding bass to make it seem more full?

Im not sure about CuBase 5.0 cause i run MixCraft 5, but ive just recently purchased a tascam us-1800 and i have no problem getting 0 latency. when you select what ASIO you wanna use what do you select?