Asa Palmer wrote:

I’m still really confused (have been for days now and it seems to be getting worse).

Looking at the Mixer screen, I’ve assigned the 3 kick mic channels to the single output ‘Out 1/2’ (which I’ve renamed ‘KICK’ to correspond to a channel in Nuendo. However, looking at the Route Instrument Microphones’ window Microphone Kick In is routed to Mixer Channel Kick In, Microphone Kick Out is routed to Mixer Channel Kick Out and Microphone Kick Sub is routed to Mixer Channel Kick Sub.  This is very confusing. I’m trying to get all three kick mics grouped together in Out 1/2, without using the busses. What am I missing here?

I’m reading and rereading the manual day after day just trying to get everything routed back to Nuendo in a logical way, but I don’t appear to be getting very far.

For a start, I would prefer that Kick, Snare and HH could be output in mono, but never mind that for now. I would be happy if it were possible to do the following:

Group all Kick mics to Out 1/2

Group all SN mics to Out 3/4

Route HiHat mic to Out 5/6

Group all five Tom mics to Out 7/8

Group all Crash cymbal mics to Out 9/10

Route all Ride Cymbal mics to Out 11/12

Send varying amounts of each instrument to the three Ambience mic pairs (perhaps depending on how far each mic pair is away from the kit).  –  I’m not using the surround channels.

How can this be accomplished?

At the moment I feel that if I can not accomplish this very soon now I will probably give up and remain with BFD2, which would be a shame as SD3 does sound fantastic. I just can’t continue spending so much time on this basic setup.

• This post was modified 5 years, 10 months ago by Asa Palmer.

I guess is depends on the preset you are working with. By default all presets are set to Out 1/2, as I’m sure you’ve noticed. The direct mics are probably routed to Busses in the mixer. Those busses are then routed to Out 1/2 to your DAW.

Now, if you want to multi out into Nuendo, you can either route the Busses to multiple outputs as you want (click the Output field on the mixer as assign to “Outputs whatever you want”), or you can route the direct mic channels to the outputs and bypass any busses. I’m sure the busses have processing so they won’t sound the same but if you’re routing out into a DAW, you want to process in the DAW…but anyway…

In the pic below, you can see the Direct Mic channels are routed (Output) to the Kick Bus (Colored Orange). That Kick Bus is then routed to Output 1/2 (Colored Red). Depending on the preset, the other outputs and/or busses may be hidden and you need to Edit Visibility to show them. You can then display Out 3/4, Out 5/6, Out 7/8, etc. These then can be routed in your DAW if you have activated those Outputs in Nuendo.

Hope that helps. Let me know if I can make things clearer.

• This post was modified 5 years, 10 months ago by Scott.