Whats needed to record drums?

[D_Vincent]

Whats needed to record drums?

There is lots of info out there on how to mic drums...Many ways to record depending on budget.

Lots of people using sm57's on snare and using two condensor for overheads then micing kick drum and other drums depending on the amount of mics they have and there budget.

My question is this...I have an interface that only has one input...Im guessing I need to get an interface with perhaps 8 inputs or I need to get a mixer.

A mixer sounds like the cheapest way to go however when I record with a mixer how does my DAW record/seperate each track individually...how do I get kick,snare,toms and overheads recorded seperately if they are all going into the mixer then into one input on the interface.

 

[noisewreck]

how do I get kick,snare,toms and overheads recorded seperately if they are all going into the mixer then into one input on the interface.

You don't
A mixer will take all the inputs from the mics, and output a stereo (or L+R mix) of all the drums.

If you want to have the output of each mic to end up in its own channel in the DAW, you need an interface with multiple inputs.

Oh, and please do not post the same thing in different forums.

 

[miroslav]

Right...you don't.

You need as many inputs on your interface as you want separate tracks in your DAW, when you record stuff all at once...like a drum kit with multiple mics on it...or 4 people playing at once...etc.

One thing you could do with only 2 inputs, is use a mixer to create your drums across a stereo pair, and you would mix them at the mixer how you want to be when they end up in the DAW as two tracks.
That's workable...but then you could also record the entire kit to one track, though that is a bit limited AFA your mixing options.

 

[D_Vincent]

Ok thanks

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I didnt mean to post this in more than one forum...I thought I posted it in recording forum at first but then noticed it was in the mixing forum...I couldnt figure out how to delete that thread so I just closed it and then re posted in recording forum.

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