My weird fix for tracking triggered drums with no module, anyone done this before?

[Dan R]

Has anyone used drum triggers without a midi module before? Right now mine is broken, so I have my Roland kick trigger going into one of the inputs of my Apollo, and I have the UAD1176LN boosting the signal into APtrigga to level the hits out. It seems to be working pretty well. Anyone have any experience doing this?

cheers,
Dan

 

[Charles J]

do it every time I track drums (unless with a little EQ I can get a brutal NATURAL kick that will work throughout the tracking process. ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS on kick. SNR can be a bit trickier but as I said, I just pop a ddrum trigger on the kick, send it to a mic-pre and use trigger in realtime.

Using a Fireface 800 and latency has NEVER been an issue for me. Plus it's easy as FUCK to get a kick drum to trigger properly with Trigger... takes me 10 seconds to get it dialed in, even on really soft hits or quick triplet-type rolls.

 

[Dan R]

Awesome! Glad someone else has had succes with this.

cheers!

 

[Eschatologist]

Did exactly that on our latest demo, works like a charm.

 

[Lasse Lammert]

That's how 99% of the people on this forum are doing it, that's what aptrigga, drumagog etc is for

 

[JeffTD]

Yeah, that's the only way I'd track triggers. When people tell me they recorded the output of the brain for more than monitoring purposes I get really confused and slightly annoyed.

 

[Ben Johnson]

Yeah, that's the only way I'd track triggers. When people tell me they recorded the output of the brain for more than monitoring purposes I get really angry and destroy things.

ftfy

 

[colonel_claypoo]

do it every time I track drums (unless with a little EQ I can get a brutal NATURAL kick that will work throughout the tracking process. ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS on kick. SNR can be a bit trickier but as I said, I just pop a ddrum trigger on the kick, send it to a mic-pre and use trigger in realtime.

Using a Fireface 800 and latency has NEVER been an issue for me. Plus it's easy as FUCK to get a kick drum to trigger properly with Trigger... takes me 10 seconds to get it dialed in, even on really soft hits or quick triplet-type rolls.

exactly like that.

 

[xFkx]

in other news, man has landed on the moon

 

[Backe]

It's probably a more common practice to use triggers without a drum module in recording situations nowadays, you know, since the 80's are over and all. People often record triggers alongside real mics and then use the 'piezo pop' for gating, or for replacing i.e. a kick drum without having to worry about any bleed messing with the software.

 

[The StabbinCabin]

I feel stupid- You guys are just going piezo trs into your interface then?