Superior Drummer – Recording Stacks / Routing issue

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  • DrewBySnacks
    Participant

    Do you want one single file for each microphone in the stack, as if it were a single drum….or do you want to be able to mix in the levels of the stacks afterwards? If you have a mix of the stacks you like….either route the microphones of the stack to your main snare channel and treat them as one microphone, and then bounce the mic audio WITHOUT choosing to separate close mics on channels OR if you only want one single snare channel in your DAW, you can route all of your snare mics and channels into a Bus inside SD3, get your balance correct and then send that bus to its own output via Multi-Outputs, which would give you a single snare channel that should match your BUS mix exactly as long as you don’t have any extra processing effects on your output channels. Also make sure all of your output channels inside SD3 have the faders set to zero, or identical to each other. If one output is faded down (or you have compression on channels 1/2 but not the others)….the sound will change.


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    Thanked by: Brad
    Bear-Faced Cow
    Participant

    A lot of this is mixing 101, TBH.

    I don’t understand why the ‘stack’ just doesn’t effect the same channel of the main instrument that I’m wanting to edit, instead of creating a whole new channel for it that is difficult to record?

    You are confusing stacks with busses. A stack is not a single channel, but a series of channels, similar to the way you would stack audio or instruments within your DAW. If you wanted to treat the entire stack, you would want to route the channels to a bus channel where you can treat them there. However, I would rarely treat the audio of a stack uniformly because I would often be stacking something like a transient onto a another kit piece which would require its own channel treatment first before treating the combination on a bus (such as a compressor to emphasize the transient while shaping the body).

    I notice that when I create a new stack, along with that a new channel is created with the default output as 1/2. I obviously if I try to record in this into Ableton, then I need to route the stack to the channel that I’d record it on? So let’s say Floor Tom Left Is 3/4

    Do I change the stack to also be 3/4? When I do this, the sound changes?

    This all depends on if the channel is being processed and what is processing the channel. You probably are best to route your kit pieces to buses first and work backwards, mixing wise. This will give you greater control over your sound.

    jord


    Jordan L. Chilcott

    Web Site: https://jordanchilcottmusic.com/

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