some drum recording questions...

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Hi,
My band and me are planning to start with recording a demo this weekend.
Our style is somewhere between Punk, indie rock and there's a little metal in there too.
This is the equipment we have:
Hardware:
Laptop with EMU 1616M
External harddisk
Behringer ADA 8000
Software:
Sonar 4 for recording, Samplitude 8.2 for mixing
Mics:
Sennheiser e602
Beyerdynamic m69
Sennheiser e835
Sennheiser e845
Beyerdynamic TG-X58
JBL M70S
Studio Projects C4 (pair)
Chinese LDC from Music Store Cologne (similar to a Studio Projects C1)

The plan is to record the drums along with scratch tracks for guitar and bass, and track the rest later on, one instrument at a time.
On to the questions:
E602 for the kick and C4s for overheads are set, but I am unsure whether to use the M69 for the floor tom or the snare. The E845 will do the other part and for the rack toms I plan to use the e835 and the tgx-58. What would you recommend?
Do you think it would be better to sync the ADA8000 to the EMU clock or will the difference be negligible?
Any other comments?
Of course I am well aware that this is still a pretty basic setup, but it should be a step up from our last recording where we only had a Maya44 USB (4channels @16bit 48k) and no mic pres with phantom power.

Thanks for your time :)

Niko
 
Swap the tom and snare mics and listen to both, then decent. There's no better advice than that from your ears.
 
Myriad_Rocker said:
Why don't you just mix in Sonar?
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'cause I love Samp :p

I prefer audio editing in Samplitude, that's mostly why I bought it and it has a few things Sonar 4.04 hasn't. However I don't want to take the dreaded dongle with me, that's why I plan to use Sonar for recording. It's a great app too btw
 
Sounds like there not much to comment on at this point - it's all theory 'til you put some sound on tape, as a wise ol' engineer once said.

(To bring that old saw into the 21st century, let's say 'audio on hard disc' shall we?)
 
Sounds like you've got it pretty much figured out. I can't seen the clock on the Behri being much better than the Emu, or vice versa.
 
Thanks for the responses. Ok, then we'll see how it turns out. I'll propably post some clips when we're done.
 
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