Hey everyone, I've got a question about the 388 that I'm hoping someone can help me with.
I want to record only drums onto my 388, which I'm going to put to computer, then bounce back onto two tracks back on my recorder so I have another 6 tracks to record guitars, vocals, etc. I plan on using 7 out of the 8 channels and tracks on the 388 to do this: bass, snare, two overheads for cymbals, and a mic on each tom (3 tom mics, 7 mics total).
My first question is about recording the snare drum. I want to try and get a bigger thwack from the snare, but without losing the good sound we already had. I plan on recording the snare drum onto two tracks. One of the tracks will be track 8, on which I can disable the DBX noise reduction (normally meant for timecode and MIDI). Do I have to put it through channel 8 to do this? Or, is it OK to say put the snare drum first on channel 2/track 2, then have track 8 routed from channel 2 to have no DBX? I'm worried that the DBX is encoded from the channel, and not on the track itself, so that when it's rerouted to track 8 it will have DBX encoded, but not played back correctly or something. To reiterate, I don't want DBX on my second snare drum track (track 8).
My next question concerns using a scratch guitar. I plan on using a POD since it's all line and there won't be any bleed from an amp. Is there a way to use channel 8, since there won't be any drum mic on it, so that both the drummer and scratch guitarist can hear it without recording it? Or is this not possible since I'm using all 8 tracks now?
Thank you,
-MD
I want to record only drums onto my 388, which I'm going to put to computer, then bounce back onto two tracks back on my recorder so I have another 6 tracks to record guitars, vocals, etc. I plan on using 7 out of the 8 channels and tracks on the 388 to do this: bass, snare, two overheads for cymbals, and a mic on each tom (3 tom mics, 7 mics total).
My first question is about recording the snare drum. I want to try and get a bigger thwack from the snare, but without losing the good sound we already had. I plan on recording the snare drum onto two tracks. One of the tracks will be track 8, on which I can disable the DBX noise reduction (normally meant for timecode and MIDI). Do I have to put it through channel 8 to do this? Or, is it OK to say put the snare drum first on channel 2/track 2, then have track 8 routed from channel 2 to have no DBX? I'm worried that the DBX is encoded from the channel, and not on the track itself, so that when it's rerouted to track 8 it will have DBX encoded, but not played back correctly or something. To reiterate, I don't want DBX on my second snare drum track (track 8).
My next question concerns using a scratch guitar. I plan on using a POD since it's all line and there won't be any bleed from an amp. Is there a way to use channel 8, since there won't be any drum mic on it, so that both the drummer and scratch guitarist can hear it without recording it? Or is this not possible since I'm using all 8 tracks now?
Thank you,
-MD