alright heres tha deal...

[kodyshred]

alright, so i wanna record onto my computer using audacity...

im shoppin around for a firewire interface, on the drums i wanna mic...
the snare,

hi-hat,

one between the 2 rack toms,

one on the bass drum,

one of the floor tom

and one overhead.

basically i wanna be able to control the sound of almost all the drums. so thats 6 mics.

then ill want to mic the guitar then the bass.

first of all, what would be a good interface to do this...?

and second, would this idea ive got in my head about recording even work?

 

[light40]

I would highly recommend using two overheads to get a stereo image.
One overhead mic will force the entire drum mix into one spot, rendering all other mics completely useless.
With a good pair of OH properly set up you will probably already have a pretty good drum sound. After that you can add the kick and snare and maybe(if you really need to) some toms.

I highly doubt the hi-hat will need its own mic, unless you have the quietest hi-hat in the world and it is 23 miles from the snare mic.


Enough about drum micing...

There are tons of 8 input fire wire interfaces out there. Every time I check there are 2 more and a little cheaper. I have the Presonus Firepod which is now called the FP10. The unit is great and I have had no problems with it as long as my PC plays ball.

The only other interfaces I have worked with are Digidesign, which I would not recommend as they are very expensive, and once you buy one it tends to be incompatible with everything other than other Digidesign units and MAC computers(which makes a growing studio very pricey).


Yes, it will work. You have a pretty good idea of what you want.

I don't know how far into recording you want to go (or how far you already are) so maybe buying a cheap 8-track mixer and going into a PC line input after mixing everything down is an option as well.


Good luck!

 

[Nick The Man]

I think light covered everything I wanted to say, but if there is one addition I could add. This kind of depends on how much you plan on getting into recording, but I would recommend getting an interface that has the option to connect to an optical source so that if in the future you wanted to have the option to record more tracks simutaniously, then you would have the option.

I bought the TASCAM FW-1804 a long time ago and now I bought the M-audio Octane, so now i can record 16 tracks at once. My personal thought is that the more you get into drum recording the more you realize (if you don't have an acoustically good room, which most dont) you will want to mic all the toms.

After you use up to 10 mics on drums by themselves then you still need some inputs for guitars and such.

Anyways, enough rambling... just something to think about.