Trevoire520
Member
A dedicated headphone amp is going to likely be louder and cleaner than the ones in your interface, but to be honest with Isolation phones the Profire's headphone amp is good enough. Just roll off some low end from the headphone mix and if you're struggling for volume put a limiter on it.
Personally I think £150 on a D6 is a bit of a waste when the kick will most likely be sample replaced anyway. For a tenner more you can get a full set of drum triggers and use drum samples (though this is obviously no good if you're going for a natural sound)
Also you could pick up a Behringer ADA8000 (£150, or less on ebay) and you'd have another 8 inputs for drums through the ADAT input on the Profire. Though the pre's aren't awesome they're fine for triggers. So you could do:
1 Over L
2 Over R
3 Snare
4 Room
5
6
7
8
9 Snare Trigger
10 Tom 1 Trigger
11 Tom 2 Trigger
12 Tom 3 trigger
13 Kick Trigger
14 Talback
15
16
and you still have 6 inputs left for tom mic's, snare bottom mic, etc if you have cash left for some, or can borrow some from elsewhere? The talkback mic will save you tapping on the window (this mic can be anything, even a piece of shit karaoke mic tbh, something with a on/off switch is handy)
Also instead of the Reflexion Filter you could get a set of Auralex Aural Xpanders. Though the vocal mic one is probably not as good as the RF the kit is very good for reducing spill into mic's when recording drums. And it's only £50 for the kit.
As has already been said, I5's and 57's will go a very long way when it comes to snare/tom mic's.
