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Shure Beta52a - kick Shure Beta57a - top of snare Audix i5 on - bottom of snare Cad GXL 3000 - toms (You can't beat LDC's on toms) Naiant X-M pair - Overheads Cad M179 - Room Sometimes (rarely) I'll use a high hat mic (Audix F15) and a front of kit mic to pick up the whole kit but closer than...

Just finished an album for a hard rock band that had 48-78 tracks per song. I did that on my aging laptop. I did run out of processing power if I tried to record with effects turned on during playback. It was easy enough to just turn off all effects while tracking. Now I have a dedicated DAW...

prevents moisture from corroding the metal in the microphone.

I now have 5 of them. I've been very happy using them on snare. SM57 on top and a beta57 on the bottom. I recently got an Audix i5 and tried that on top, and I really didn't get the tone I wanted. The i5 got a tone that was sort of a mix between the shure mics on top and bottom all by itself...

Headphones and a headphone amp are important for tracking. If you have a separate control room and tracking room, then you want to set up some way to communicate between rooms. Mic stands and cables... These 2 things are easy to forget about but add up fast. Also don't forget about backup...

I have both. The F14 can sound good as long as it isn't close to the beater. When I used it, I put it just inside the port of the resonant head. Now I use a beta52, so the f14 only gets used on floor toms if I run out of mics. I've only used my f15 on hats, and I really haven't been able to get...

Look up Naiant microphones. They are all omni and they can be ridiculously cheap. I have the X-M pair which are slightly pricey (still relatively cheap compared to other brands) but I use them all the time as drum overheads and on acoustic guitar. The whole product line is highly regarded on...

When you render to stems, there is a way for the tracks to be added to all the other tracks on your screen. So you just mute the original with the plugin and instead play the newly rendered stem. This frees up RAM because it's just playing an unaffected .wav file off your hard drive along with...

When you click on File->Export, all the tracks are rendered into single clean tracks. You don't see multiple unused takes, and all the tracks will start and end at the same time. (I track in Reaper and mix in Logic Pro so it's a feature I use all the time.) If you have effects in your chain...

I just picked up another solid mic for roughly $50 used. Audix i5

If you raise the latency, do the issues lessen/go away? Which version of Reaper are you on?

Are you trying to record on a track that is sent to a bus with plugins? Or are you trying to record directly to a track with plugins? What is your latency set to? How fast is/are your hard drive(s)?

Am I going to be too limited with the hardware I have to do what I want?

I'm using 2 at once, and I'm trying to figure out the best way to wire everything. I've found that only the "first" firepod will allow hardware monitoring instead of DAW monitoring. I don't like this, because I have two 8 channel snakes, one on each side of my tracking room. So the closest...

I've been using both lately. The Rode is a little harsher sounding and it's not as much of a workhorse as the Cad is, but when you match it with the right voice it sounds great. Unfortunately it doesn't really shine with most vocals I've tried it with. The Cad is just a great all around "grab it...

I tried recording vocals in my "amp booth" (12' x 5' storage room) and it just didn't sound right. I don't know how to describe the sound, but it was weird. In all fairness 3 of the walls are concrete and there is a concrete floor. I only use this room as a booth when tracking drums, in case a...

I think that's called low-fi gold

I use a pair of Firepods (use Dice 2) with Reaper and I haven't had an issue.

So today, I just upped my number. Recording a drummer for an indie/ambient band. this last one is of a Rode NT1a that we decided to put upstairs facing down into the staircase next to where the drummer was playing. For this session we used: Audix F14 - kick Sm57 - Snare top Beta57a -...

I forgot to mention that I am recording to an external firewire drive. It's not a major issue with latency that I'm having, it's more of me trying to come up with a better use for my other laptop. I did some searching on the Reaper forums and it looks like it wouldn't benefit me at all because...