Discussion: Recording, DAWs, and Mixing

Thatbastarddon said:
Are you enjoying the Tascam rig? Is it pretty stable? Like a normal mixer, do you just fire it up and get right to it?
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The Tascam 24 is a PA, DAW controller, and recorder the effects are fair at best
getting good drum recordings EQ the drum mic's less than 5 min.
The Allen And Heath QU-16 board took two day's to EQ the drums way more complex
The Tascam is simple to use and records on a micro SSD drive
 
Getting ready to mic drums this week Bringing the 24 channel Carvin board into the room, buddy is bringing his drum mics & will mic the room also, lets make real music ,i mean..live..capture the vibe , Really excited for this, I feel if i play drums to the original tunes it will kick it up another notch. With the 2 bands now, its time to build a full blown studio & makes & capture tons of original music.
 
BFT Gibson said:
Getting ready to mic drums this week Bringing the 24 channel Carvin board into the room, buddy is bringing his drum mics & will mic the room also, lets make real music ,i mean..live..capture the vibe , Really excited for this, I feel if i play drums to the original tunes it will kick it up another notch. With the 2 bands now, its time to build a full blown studio & makes & capture tons of original music.
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Were getting great drum recordings using 6 channels on the Tascam 24, I need to choose a DAW I have Cubase 11 Pro
but have not loaded it on the new computer with the I9 processor the old computer would freeze up when running Cubase and Komplete
Kontrol at the same time so now I'm running SSD external drives with a drive hub I have one more slot want to get a 4 TB SSD drive
using two 1 TB external drives so far and one is full with Komplete Kontrol and Maschine instruments so far.
This is Joe on drums he has been playing drums over 50 years great bass player too we have been playing music since 2008
Got Joe got a phone call wanted us to go to Las Vegas and play in Ronnie's band Joe invited Ronnie to his new house in Kona

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We have used this drum mic setup, and this modest kit but with decent cymbals, for 4 different releases. It's four mic plus a room across the hallway. Drummer Son says that when they have been recorded professionally his kit gets a similar mic scheme.

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Yall were discussing using busses?? Most DAW are going to have an easy way to create a buss, it's different from DAW to DAW but it's worth the effort to learn to use busses. I typically will have a drum buss, bass buss, guitar buss, vocal buss. On occasion I might use another. The wonderful thing about using busses is that it allows you to do TOP DOWN MIXING. Using top down mixing allows you to do some things, like compression, at the buss level rather than using a compressor on individual tracks. Same with EQ. Done this way, you can often get the group of tracks in the buss all sounding pretty good and needing only tweaks. Starting at the buss level saves a lot of time and kind of glues the tracks within the buss. I use them every mix at this point.
 
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