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Arg. I hate decisions. I could save a $100 and some trouble if I go with triggers but I was planning on using the sm57s that would come with the mic kit I was planning on buying to double as vocal and instrument mics when I record other tracks. Can someone tell me the best route? And wouldn't...

If I bought triggers does anyone have suggestions for those? And I'd still need overheads for the cymbals right?

Is ProTools such a prominent standard that I should use Digidesign/M-audio?

Ok, thanks for the link DanLights. It answered a lot of questions. But as stated in my first post, it gave me new ones. :P If I buy an interface it'd come with a limited DAW, but if I wanted more I wouldn't be able to switch, I could only expand whatever DAW my interface already uses?

Tyler Humphrey only close mics and he has plenty of cymbals in his mix. Also, I have some pretty hefty cymbals you can hear through walls three houses down. I think mics will catch them if I just tap 'em.

I wasn't going to use overheads. I was going to close mic everything. I've talked to several YouTube drummers who don't use overheads.

I was going to buy a Shure SM57-52 drum mic set, low profile stand for the kick mic, cables, and the interface, on top of that i'll be looking into the firewire chips. I have no problem dropping a grand on this project at least. I have summer job money and I knew most if not all would be going...

I'm a drummer by trade but we're not known as the smartest breed so I decided to gate crash this place for some advice. I plan on using summer job money to purchase my own mics and everything necessary to let me record drum tracks and further down the line tracks for my band because we've...