HELP!!!! New and really really confused

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Hi there I'm a drummer of four years now and am looking into buying some recording equipment so I can upload my work to the web. What exactly will i need to record my drums I understand mic's, an interface (i'm looking into presonus firestudio) and then some sort of software which i assume i can use what comes with the firestudio. Is there anything else i will need? and how would i go about actually inserting mics into the firestudio will all leads just go in anywhere mic port? i understand that firestudio is a firewire connection btw please help me out if you can thanks.
 
I actually just pointed someone else in this direction, have a look at this series of articles which I hope will answer at least most of your questions.
There's stuff there on recording equipment and software, interfaces, monitoring, choosing a location and some stuff on mics (more to follow on this)
If you have any further questions, then leave a comment on the site, or back here and I'll try and write something to answer them.
Hope it helps
 
Thanks very much the info was really helpful I just have one question the presonus firestudio has enough mic sockets to record my kit but if I wanted to record another instrument would I then have to do it separately or would drums have taken up all tracks.

once again thanks really appreciate it.
 
If you want to record it at the same time, then you would need another track/channel. If you want to record more tracks AFTER doing your drum recording, no.
 
Glad the link was helpful. The short answer is 'it depends'. You may have some channels left over when you come to record drums, I find the minimum rig to be kick, snare top, snare bottom, hi-hat, overheads but that is just what I've found from my experience. Plenty of other people will suggest prioritizing your channels in different ways for drums, and it will depend more than anything on the microphones that you have available to you.
The way I suggested gives you space for two extra channels, so you could record bass or something else as well at the same time without any problem.
I suggest you have a quick glance at this page to just think about what you want to record simultaneously, or whether it's better to do them independantly and build up the layers more gradually.
 
You can get great drum recordings with 4 mics. Snare, kik, and 2 overheads. I've never found the need to use a bottom mic on the snare. I'm not saying you shouldn't, but I wouldn't call it a minimum requirement.
 
The most pleasurable and challenging part of recording drums is the amount of scope you have. Anything from one to 56 mics, depending on you. And they can all sound good, depending on what you're going for and how patient you are.
 
See what I mean about different approaches? 8 channels should be enough to run pretty decent multitrack recordings on.
 
What ever happened to the days of just one microphone on the drums? Worked really well then!
 
moresound said:
What ever happened to the days of just one microphone on the drums? Worked really well then!
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Well yeah, that's true to a degree. There was one mic on everything, nothing went DI. It's funny that it was decades before anyone thought of going DI. But in a way, the glory of the limitation spawned the seeds of the downfall of the limitation. When you got musicians, producers and engineers becoming as interested in the actual sound of something as well as capturing sound, then it was only a matter of time before more mics went on drums, little Vox amps became huge Marshall stacks, double basses gave way to bass guitars, mellotrons and synthesizers knobbled orchestras and so on and so forth. The sky became the limit.
And Dave consented to it all !
 
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