Yammi AW1600, pro tools, mBox2

[Sluggo4242]

Could I use my Yammi 16 track digital recorder to mike my drums to blend them down to two tracks to feed my Mbox2 for my pro-tools?

As a newbie, I'm starting with a 6.8 version on my old 1 gig PC with XP
I'm getting ready to upgrade my 4 gig laptop with Windows 7, and from there I'll be able to upgrade my PT to 8.4 after beta testing finishes up and they release it to the public.

But, I'm about as a newbie to it all as one can be. But, I'm retiring in 69 days, and will have nothing but time to learn.

Is 54 too late to start?

 

[shortedaman]

yes you can! and it is as simple as that. but it will be considerably harder to change eq during mix down. but as long as you have a good source sound, and you spend some time making sure the mix is right in your mixer first. also, if this doesnt overload you already, you could run the snare and maybe a little bit of the overheads through the fx send, into a reverb, and back into another track on your mixer to add a lil of that during tracking. i only say this because i feel you wont have the chance to add reverb during mix down because of the fact that you will be tracking the entire kit in stereo. this is more along the lines of how they do it at a decent live venue to the house system.

 

[jedblue]

Why don't you just record your drums down to their individual mike tracks on the AW1600 then USB those individual .wav track files out to your computer and pick them up in ProTools? Then you can mix them in ProTools with whatever else you are recording via your Mbox. It seems unnecessary to mix the drums down to a stereo pair on the AW1600 and send that via the Mbox to ProTools?

USB'ing'd be what I'd do anyway.

See page 144 of the AW1600 manual for the song structure and page 137 for the USB export function.

 

[darrin_h2000]

Is 54 too late to start?

Yes...official cut off age is 42.

You would get better mileage off of just using your Yamaha and mixing down to 2 channels of sound forge or something.

I picked my Tascam 2488neo because of the ability to transfer the data straight into Protools and work with it from there....the Yamaha doesnt do that trick...but you should keep it for live situations because that will come in handy.

Now since you have the protools and you want to do drums you might consider an interface with more inputs than the m-box...I havent really heard any acceptable 2 mic drum techniques...those things are really for the folksingers.

 

[wannaknow]

Could I use my Yammi 16 track digital recorder to mike my drums to blend them down to two tracks to feed my Mbox2 for my pro-tools?

As a newbie, I'm starting with a 6.8 version on my old 1 gig PC with XP
I'm getting ready to upgrade my 4 gig laptop with Windows 7, and from there I'll be able to upgrade my PT to 8.4 after beta testing finishes up and they release it to the public.

But, I'm about as a newbie to it all as one can be. But, I'm retiring in 69 days, and will have nothing but time to learn.

Is 54 too late to start?

Hi,There; I'm a newbie, and I start university next month to study creative music technologies. I've started to put together a home studio and was thinking of getting the AW1600. How do you like it? I've heard that it is very difficult to operate. It's never to late... I'm 58yr young. I'll be 61 when I graduate.

 

[shortedaman]

http://ronansrecordingshow.com/2009...drum-sounds-with-only-two-mics-or-two-inputs/

this is a link i found on another thread.

 

[Sluggo4242]

Why don't you just record your drums down to their individual mike tracks on the AW1600 then USB those individual .wav track files out to your computer and pick them up in ProTools? Then you can mix them in ProTools with whatever else you are recording via your Mbox. It seems unnecessary to mix the drums down to a stereo pair on the AW1600 and send that via the Mbox to ProTools?

USB'ing'd be what I'd do anyway.

See page 144 of the AW1600 manual for the song structure and page 137 for the USB export function.

"
I picked my Tascam 2488neo because of the ability to transfer the data straight into Protools and work with it from there....the Yamaha doesnt do that trick...but you should keep it for live situations because that will come in handy.

Now since you have the protools and you want to do drums you might consider an interface with more inputs than the m-box...I havent really heard any acceptable 2 mic drum techniques...those things are really for the folksingers. "


I guess I'm a bit lost here, one of you say you can transfer the .wav files to pro tools, and the other of ya says ya can't...:confused
Also, I see that both the units have a digital stereo in/out plugs that look like RCA connectors, but again, I don't think they are. Is there a special SPDIF (or however that's spelled) cable??

Thanks guys, this site rocks BTW..

 

[jedblue]

You can export individual.wav track files out of your AW1600 to a PC using USB Sluggo. Read the manual. It's all in there. Give it a go.

 

[Sluggo4242]

Why don't you just record your drums down to their individual mike tracks on the AW1600 then USB those individual .wav track files out to your computer and pick them up in ProTools? Then you can mix them in ProTools with whatever else you are recording via your Mbox. It seems unnecessary to mix the drums down to a stereo pair on the AW1600 and send that via the Mbox to ProTools?

USB'ing'd be what I'd do anyway.

See page 144 of the AW1600 manual for the song structure and page 137 for the USB export function.

You can export individual.wav track files out of your AW1600 to a PC using USB Sluggo. Read the manual. It's all in there. Give it a go.

I bet you guys feel like pushing us newbies right off the cliff sometimes eh? lol
I read it, and will try this week. Been trying to set up a new bedroom studeo layout. It's tough to set up a full DW kit, a piano, a POS keyboard, a small PA, puter, AW1600, Mbox, 4 guitars, amp etc... in about 120 square feet.

But it is soooo fun! Now if I could only find some site where I could download some talent!