Recording electric drums

[ponicorn]

Im recording with electric drums and it sounds horrible
is it better to plug direct into an mbox
or do the drums through an amp/mic

any other tips?

it sounds like its constantly hitting a threshold, even though its not

 

[bdenton]

Make sure you are plugging into a "line" input on your MBox, and not a "mic" or "inst"(rument) input.

I don't know which MBox you have, but if it doesn't have line inputs your're kinda SOL...

 

[ponicorn]

i was plugging the drums into an amp, and recording to a mic into the m box.
SOL? i'm not up on the lingo these days.
I have a mobile pre usb, it does have line input,
ill try that.
thanks!

 

[TimOBrien]

Or consider recording the MIDI and putting the sounds in the computer.

You'll not only have the capability of unlimited sounds, but you can edit/tweak the performance.

 

[ponicorn]

my issue with the midi drums is that the built in drum racks in ableton sound horrid.
I have the vst plugin - addictive drums, but i cannot get the e-drums to sync up properly with addictive drums. I even tried recording all the drum sounds from Addictive drums separately and then created a custom drum rack set to the proper pads for my e-drums, but the drum hits mute out after the initial hit. I tried adding reverb, but that sounded worse then the ableton drums!
sigh.. .
why can't home recording be easy like eating chips, or hula hooping?

 

[melodies5]

hey, i've just bought an alesis io2 and have been trying to record into ableton live 6 with my dt xplorer but am having issues. can I record what i'm playing connected by just a midi cable or do I also need to connect stereo/mono cables?

thanks