Recording drums W/ 8-track

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I am currently recording drum tracks for songs that a friend of mine is doing guitar, bass and vocals. In the interest of conserving space on his Tascam Digital 8 track, we are recording the drums panned to the right channel and using one track.

Is this a good idea or should we come out of my mixer with both left and right and use two tracks? Is this going to make getting a good drum mix difficult? I think it is going to make the drums sound flat and stereo will give them a more full sound and will make the rest of the parts, particularly vocals, easier to mix.
 
I recorded on 8 tracks only for years and I used to put them in 3 tracks.
1=Kick
2=Snare
3=a submix of the toms and overheads.
This gave me good controll at mix time as I could still adjust the kick/snare relationship and fill in the top. That still leaves you with two guitar tracks, a bass track and two vocal tracks.
 
Track is right. At least use 2 tracks for a stereo mix. One other option is to submix everthing to 2 tracks stereo and have a seperate kick track since kick is probably the most important and hardest to record well.
 
I've made due with 4 tracks... kick on one, snare an another, overheads and toms submixed to a stereo pair.

Bruce
 
Thanks, all.

I am controlling the mix in my 14-channel mixer and sending stereo out from there. What I wanted advice on was is it better to just send one channel to a single track or send both right and left to his 7/8 channel which are linked because they are stereo?
 
I use 4 tracks... one for my 808, one for my kick, one for my snare, and one for my hi-hat.
 
stereo....

you definitely want to have, at least, a stereo recording of the drums

if you have 8 tracks to record on - and you're limiting the drums to 1 track - what the heck else are you recording that's filling up those tracks?? I would battle for another track (at least) - as a mono drum recording is going to sound like shite
 
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