airhendrix wrote:now that you mention the panning for the drum kit, what is the standard about doing it
I personally dont think it really matters. A lot of people will say that the drums should be panned right to left (high hat right floor tom left) as this is how you would hear it if you were watching a band, but personally ,although i am a guitarist , i also like to get behind the drums and have a whack so i prefer to hear them as if im playing them so high hat on the left floor tom on the right (for a right handed drummer.)
What you need to be aware of is if you are going to have 4-6 mics on a kit you need a mixing desk that has 4-6 inputs. It is also better if you have the cabability to equalize (adjust bass, treble and mids) each of the tracks.
Ok so say we have everything mic'd and its sounding great coming from the mixing desk and now you want to get it into audacity. The biggest problem here is that what you have coming from the mixing desk and going into audacity will come out as one track.So Everything going into the desk will be mixed into one track in audacity if you only have one channel going from your desk to the computer. While this will sound great you wont be able to isolate say the snare from the rest of the kit.
you will need a much fancier sound card for that. I dont know much about them but here is an excerp from a previous post that may help
http://audacityteam.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=26&t=2561
particularly alathans post which is
"It's up to your hardware to provide all these input channels. I have an M-audio Delta 1010LT card. With it, I can record up to 8 analog inputs at the same time. Each input gets it's own separate track with no overlapping or cross-talking between them.
For hardware that can give you this kind of thing, poke around in the the 'Recording Equipment' forum. There are a handful of posts about this exact subject up there already."
airhendrix wrote:I might really want it cause I love recording stuff even if its only on my Yamaha Keyboard lol.
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I suggest that if your not sure how seriously you want to get into recording that you start out small rather than just go out and spend alot of money on lots of equipment. You only really need a kit and one mic to record your drums. How much production you can do on that one track is limited but if you are patient and creative you will find ways around the shortcomings.
As an example ( i promise its not shameless self promotion cause i dont work that way and im not actually that good) have a listen to "watching the moon" off my myspace page.
http://www.myspace.com/craigmeakin
The drums in this track were recorded with a single condenser mic into a mixing desk then into audacity(ie minimal equipment). Its not great but you can still hear everything ok. Also have a listen to "leave it up to you" Its just an example of what you can do with a cheap drum machine (zoom rythm ttrack) if youve got the patience to program all the different parts. The drum machine will allow you to add effects more easily though although this tune just uses the factory sounds.
good luck with it.
and I had the idea of making some of the cymbal crashes sound like a reverby splash. The only way I can describe how I kinda want it is by referencing the song, "Mushroom" by Can.
