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thpanama87	Date: August 7, 2004 @ 2:55 PM how do you record your drum tracks. i didn't use to but i decided to try and put some drum tracks in my songs and i played them through my digitech rp200 pedal but it got repetitive. bill43 gave me the idea to put 2 different drum tracks together to change it up a bit but i wanna know how other people do it. if u wanna hear the song i was talkin about its called station #11 at http://tomgibson.dmusic.com
onewhodreams	Date: August 9, 2004 @ 11:40 PM We program our Drum Machine or our Midi QY100.
Zsammy	Date: August 10, 2004 @ 12:21 AM i use midi through a program called cakewalk. specifically soundfonts. with midi's you can map out your own drums. in other words, you place each kick and each snare exactly where you want it on a piano roll (an interface for mapping midi). i really like soundfonts and have found some really good free ones for drums. i'm not sure what other programs other than cakewalk can use soundfonts, hough. i'm really only familiar with cakewalk.
mindseepage	Date: August 10, 2004 @ 9:22 PM I use a Boss 770 drum machine. Most drum machines are programable so you can change the beat from verse to chorus and back again, and add fills in between. It's kind of tedious but well worth the time and effort.
thpanama87	Date: August 14, 2004 @ 3:15 PM i have cakewalk stuido pro but i can't figure out how to do the drum tracks. i read the help menu and i do everything it says but they just dont play. i got tired of trying to figure it out.
Zsammy	Date: August 14, 2004 @ 11:45 PM panama. if you're using the GM (general midi) drums, set the track to chanel 10, then use the piano roll to map them. but those are some pretty cheezy drums. i recomend sound fonts which work in the same manner but sound immeasurably better. depending on your sound card, you may not be able to use them. Let me know what sound card you have and i can walk you through getting and using soundfonts.
hypnoticmind	Date: August 15, 2004 @ 1:01 PM i use Reason for drum programming.good drums,good synth sounds.great program!
marlastills	Date: August 15, 2004 @ 2:51 PM thrasher AKA KILLFUNKSTER http://kf.dmusic.com he does his drums with live instruments, he uses a drum kit, but when he records everything he has a giant mixing bosrd hooked up to a HUMUNGOUS 150 TRACK RECORDER, AND HE DOESNT USE CUBASE OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT, HE SAY HE GETS way bETTER SOUND AND PERFrmance with live instruments and digital track recorders like Giant 4 trax, but with up to 150-200 hope that helps, and he uses up to 7 microphones micing the drums t get that severe soundin pure sounding! only some he uses like y song with drumpasa, like I said hope that helps u out! marla stillzzzzzzzzzzz.
blacklieder	Date: August 16, 2004 @ 4:22 PM I hire an excellent drummer. Well, yeah! No, seriously, if I'm all alone, then I have two strategies: Reason Adapted has an excellent drum program, and it's quick and easy to use (said the guy who spend three months trying to figure it out!) It's functional. If I'm feeling maso, I'll program my drums manually using my Korg, my Roland D70, and an archaic dinosaur called the Brother PDC100. It looks and operates like a labeling machine, still uses 3.5 floppys, and I finished two albums and some pay for play jobs with it. Nowadays, I'm time constrained to use Reason. That, and I don't be accused of using early 80's sounding drums (Billy Ocean, where are you now?)
Alexi1337	Date: August 16, 2004 @ 11:13 PM I use reason 2.5 with various samples and kits from around the internet.
povertystricken	Date: August 17, 2004 @ 8:18 PM Sounds like the method you've chosen will work fine, try making several alternate patterns to avoid repitition. I use an emu XL7. I'm not a drummer so realtime is tough to get perfect, however grid recording is easy and flexable (even for a novice like myself) as long as I make enough alternates and fills to keep it from getting too repetitive.
robbydadrummer	Date: August 23, 2004 @ 9:53 PM i use my drums, fancy that?
novuselysium	Date: September 28, 2004 @ 9:13 PM Fruity Loops all the way if you can't find a live drummer. The newer versions will allow you to add effects and tune the sound, even add slight 'tempo deviations' to 'humanize' the drums. Awesome program.
fuhkengruven	Date: November 3, 2004 @ 1:20 PM get a live drummer! or use fruity loops it is a great program .. havent used reason so i cant comment about it . here is how i mic my drums in my studio http://burnstudios.com/desk.jpg http://burnstudios.com/drums.jpg http://burnstudios.com/drums3.jpg
RayN44	Date: November 6, 2004 @ 10:39 AM I have an ALESIS SR-16. I can play it myself or select a preset and and go from there. It also has a fill button so I can add fills to the preset and program it to play what I want it to. Come check me out
RayN44	Date: November 6, 2004 @ 10:49 AM http://files.dmusic.com/music/r/a/ray44/HPIM0315.JPG
woodhead	Date: November 7, 2004 @ 2:42 AM hmmm this is a good qiesstion anfd there are so many answers, let me think about this :thinking:
sween	Date: November 9, 2004 @ 4:35 PM I use a variety of ways, sometimes I use drum loops from anywhere, but its hard to find the beat you really want, I also put the drums together manually, which takes alot of time. Im learning to play so I can just record them when I play them yey!
tsand19151	Date: November 9, 2004 @ 4:38 PM groove agent and BFD here.......
sween	Date: November 9, 2004 @ 4:48 PM Oh I forgot to tell you the programs I use... Drag and Drop Drummer. This is cool coz its got loops and idividual sounds, Ive also bought loads of drum CDs, but as Ive said, its hard to find the right drum loop
GTLive	Date: November 9, 2004 @ 9:10 PM I use Cakewalk Music Creator which has a built in app called Session Drummer that lets you create a MIDI track. I then copy this to audio and hack it apart and rearrange the audio track. Tedious, really.
jeddak	Date: November 12, 2004 @ 7:45 AM I'm a one-person project (and I don't play drums), so I play samples: one track for kick + snare, another track for fills, and a third for hihat/ride/crashes. I prefer the sound of this approach to fully-sequenced/programmed patterns. I think it lends itself to a more natural feel.
woodhead	Date: November 12, 2004 @ 9:20 AM Lets see, I use a real drummer also, and 7 mics going into a mixer then use 4 to 5 tracks for the kit. ! track for Kick, 1 for Snare 2 for toms and 1 for over heads. I prefer using single tracks simply because you have more control over the drums. I also use a limiter to boost and even out the kick. I like to feel the kick in my chest when it is done, but still there are so many ways and to experiment is the best aspect for this.
fuhkengruven	Date: November 21, 2004 @ 12:09 PM the best way to mic drums is a mic on each drum, pan the toms , first tome to the left and the second tom to the right floor tom somewhat in the middle, i use two m-audio delta 44's and a 8 channel peamp so i mic the drums with 8 mics , akg d112 on the kick , shure sm57 on the snare , two over head condensors each panned one left and one right for stereo seperation. i use a nady condensor on the hihats and nady tom mics on the toms . when the drums tracks are recorded thats when i can apply compression, eq and some reverb on the snare and toms not to much tho..and detune your drums about a half step if you want that real deep tom sound and when you do this you should tune the bottom head slightly lower than the top , and when mic'ing the kick drum , take the outside head completly off.. yes thats right off! . lay a pillow in the kick drum and put your mic about 2 inches from the batter head at an angle aiming right at the kick pedals ..and also aim your tom mics right where the drummer hits the toms .. also new heads is a must before you even start! http://burnstudios.com/drums.jpg http://burnstudios.com/drums3.jpg
zedsalt	Date: November 27, 2004 @ 10:34 AM It varies from tune to tune, but there have been times when I've had the luxury of a skilled drummer with a nice kit and a full complement of his own mics (one specially designed for the low range and high SPLs of a kick drum, condensers for the cymbals and snare, dynamics for the toms), and plenty of tracks to spare...and we ended up using two tracks and a pair of mics that cost me a grand total of three dollars! We recorded the drums using his mic set and two Realistic PZMs that I found at auctions stuffed in with batches of junk that sold "by the box" (so, technically, they cost LESS than three dollars). The PZMs were sitting on mahogany table leaves (the surface beneath them is important) at ten and two o'clock, 45 degrees to the drumset, about three feet away. We listened to the drums over and over, trying out different mixes and placements in the stereo field. On a couple of the tunes, the sound everyone was most excited by was the PZMs alone, split hard stereo. One good drummer plus three dollars worth of mics plus two tracks equalled MAGIC.
zedsalt	Date: November 27, 2004 @ 10:40 AM BTW, the percussion on my tunes here (zed.dmusic.com) is a set of roto toms, a tambourine that was designed to be played by hand or foot (it's heavy wood, shaped like a half circle), and a bunch of "found objects" (vacuum cleaner tubes, Tupperware, etc.). Sometimes, part of it is backwards; sometimes, part of the signal is run through a Boss Harmonist and/or a Moogerfooger MF101.
bLINK2005uk	Date: January 14, 2005 @ 10:34 PM i use my hands slapping my keyboard , which seems to work pretty well when i press record
Omnipotent12	Date: January 15, 2005 @ 1:15 AM Fruityloops. Yes well....I love that program lol.
bLINK2005uk	Date: January 15, 2005 @ 1:22 AM i use my hands slapping my keyboard , which seems to work pretty well when i press record

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