Hey guys! I'm about to start recording drums acoustically with triggered Kicks. Can I just send the Trigger to a channel on the mixer and record a straight click to replace later??
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Loren Littlejohn
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ExDown
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Hey guys! I'm about to start recording drums acoustically with triggered Kicks. Can I just send the Trigger to a channel on the mixer and record a straight click to replace later??
Cheers
Yes, you can.
I actually talked to Fredrik Nordström about this a few days ago. He preffered his drums to be recorded this way. First all acoustic, then all the drumheads triggered directly into the mixer.
MetalWorks
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I tried it with Drumagog and it was still as much of a pain in the ass to dial in as a mic'd drum.
I was expecting that every trigger signal would be the same but it appeared as though they still varied in velocity and would fluctuate causing me to work just as hard at dialing in drumagog as when using a mic'd kick.
The mic'd kick just seems the most accurate to reproduce to me.
Seems as though Andy uses the triggers mostly to activate noise gates to open just before the mic'd drum track. I don't know how much it matters on the kick seeing as how most people are going to edit all of the really fast kicks anyways.
Lately I have been extremely happy just using a Mic'd drum with Drumagog Active while tracking acting as the kick trigger. The drummers always likes the brain like the DM5 because they can hear the kicks better or kick faster because its more sensative and can still hear themselves.
Now I just tell them to leave the DM5 and triggers set asside.
But try it and maybe it works well for you.
I was expecting that every trigger signal would be the same but it appeared as though they still varied in velocity and would fluctuate causing me to work just as hard at dialing in drumagog as when using a mic'd kick.
The mic'd kick just seems the most accurate to reproduce to me.
Seems as though Andy uses the triggers mostly to activate noise gates to open just before the mic'd drum track. I don't know how much it matters on the kick seeing as how most people are going to edit all of the really fast kicks anyways.
Lately I have been extremely happy just using a Mic'd drum with Drumagog Active while tracking acting as the kick trigger. The drummers always likes the brain like the DM5 because they can hear the kicks better or kick faster because its more sensative and can still hear themselves.
Now I just tell them to leave the DM5 and triggers set asside.
But try it and maybe it works well for you.
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I disagree. On fast rolls, triggers work better.
Interestingly enough, I used a cheap KBM412 CAD kick mic on a project recently and it worked real well with drumagog. I ran out of triggers so I placed the CAD on the bottom of the floor tom and got great separation. May try it again!
Interestingly enough, I used a cheap KBM412 CAD kick mic on a project recently and it worked real well with drumagog. I ran out of triggers so I placed the CAD on the bottom of the floor tom and got great separation. May try it again!
