Stereo ,Mono ? Im confused !

[ronnelamir]

Hi

I am using an M audio fast track ultra 8R which is working great, i am also using Logic 9 . I am only starting so right now im using 2 mics on the drums (condenser and dynamic ).
After trying to read about mono and stereo nothing helped and I still don't understand . When recording stereo I have an option to use 3 track and the -4 track which are my bass drum and overhead but when I choose those two together they come in the same track and i don't have an option to control the bass drum individually ,when i use mono i do have . My question is first : if I change the bass drum input and put it on 2 and the overhead on 4 (so they wont be together and be used as an individual track )and try to record so i can choose those two channels at stereo individually but on the mixer I can only see 1 line ,instead of two , that is going up when playing the song so does it mean it's not stereo ?
I already recorded a few drum beats using mono should i record them AGAIN ?is stereo even better ?

Thanks

 

[Chili]

My question is first : if I change the bass drum input and put it on 2 and the overhead on 4 (so they wont be together and be used as an individual track )and try to record so i can choose those two channels at stereo individually but on the mixer I can only see 1 line ,instead of two , that is going up when playing the song so does it mean it's not stereo ?

Okay, this is where you've got me confused and maybe some screenshots would help.

You have two mics, so you want two Mono tracks. When creating tracks in Logic (I've never used Logic before, so guessing here) be sure to make them Mono. Assign each Input Channel to only one Mono track.

Does that help?

 

[The Cancers]

You can't record a stereo track with one mic.
You need two mics to record a stereo track.
When you record a stereo track, it simply means you are recording the inputs of two microphones, one to the extreme left channel and the other to the extreme right.
You could accomplish the same thing by recording each microphone as it's own mono track, then panning one all the way left and the other all the way right.
If you're trying to record, like, the sound of the drums in the room, like the two mics are pointed at the two different sides of the kit, then a stereo track might work for you.
Otherwise, if you're trying to do something like a Kick mic and an overhead, you want two mono tracks.
Wherever in your DAW you select the recording input for a specific track, simply select the mono input which your first mic is plugged into (is it plugged into input 3? Then select mono input 3 in your DAW.) for one track, then do the same for the other mic's input for another track.
Voila, you've got two mono tracks which, if you want to sound like the "stereo" recording would have, just pan one all the way left and the other all the way right.

No, stereo doesn't "sound better" than mono.
A stereo recording (meaning a recording where the mics were set up so as to capture definite left and right sides of the sound source) will sound different than multiple mono recordings (meaning a recording where only one microphone was used to capture one sound source, but where there are multiple sound sources being captured by different microphones, like a mic on the kick drum and a mic over the whole drumset).
They sound different, because they have different purposes.

 

[ronnelamir]

Hi

Hi ,its helps me ,I will record with mono

Thanks