Im buying the equipment to set up my comercial recording studio.
Rock / Alternative bands are my main target audience, so the drums are very important. Im budgetting for the mics / pedestals required for this task.

first off, i am close to a beginner when it come to recording drums. i did it a couple times before and it sounded great, but i had to pre-mix everything and there was no mastering involved.

I've been recording my band for a while now using my lounge as a studio, but that's caused some serious compromises - we've had to use an electronic drum kit and DI our guitars due to noise issues. I've nothing against recording this way, but it really doesn't suit our style of music, hence we've never been happy with our recorded sound.

Hello everyone!
I bought my recording gear and I don't really know what the heck I'm doing with it :confused:

Does it matter what kind of preamp a person records e-drums through? The sounds in the drum kit module are pro-quality already, but I imagine that what they go through before they hit the DAW can make a huge difference in their recorded quality. Am I correct in my assumption? If I send the TD-9 sounds through a Neve it should sound better than sending it through an ART or FMR RNP?

Hello all, I've been getting more and more into home recording and so finally decided to sign up here and ask a couple of questions instead of just lurking. I'm primarily a drummer, so take it easy on me!

I have a program called Addictive drums. I can get the instrument track up, and seemingly record a pattern, as I see the track change color as it advances (although it shows no data like a normal track) but as soon as I stop recording, the track virtually disappears. Any thoughts on what I am doing wrong?

I am looking into getting some drum mics for both live and studio. We do play a lot of styles of music from straight worship to Heavy Metal. Our main style is Metal though. Because of this I want to get the appropriate mics to get that metal sound. Good high-mids on the kick, nice pop in the snare, lows in the toms... What is your experience with these mics?

Im an audio/video student in northern illinois, my band is tracking drums for our demo and I just wanted to see what kind of advice everyone could throw at me. I plan to close mic toms/snare/kick (2 mics on kick, a bd mic near the outer rI'm and an sm57 near the beaters to get the "click" that us metalheads love) and then doing x-y Micing for the overheads.

I'm trying to do some drum covers, so I need to remove or at least quiet the drums on the original track so that you can hear my drums. I'm using Cubase LE4. What's the best way to do this?