Topic: I want to give every drum its own independent OH track

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Replied April 3, 2025 at 13:51 #3387779

drumjack52
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The usual purpose of overhead mics on a kit is to capture the essence of the whole kit especially the pieces that are not close-mic’d. It doesn’t really capture room tone as such. What you want are the ambient mics. Actually doing what you want will do away with a drum kit sounding like a total instrument all in the same room at the same time. Oh and don’t forget about the bleed as well.

Jack
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Replied April 3, 2025 at 15:05 #3387801

Bear-Faced Cow
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You right click the instrument can use the “route individual microphones’ to route the OH to their own channel. However, that can produce an unwieldy amount of channels which really doesn’t support a good drum mix. But, it’s your drum mix.

jord

Jordan L. Chilcott

Web Site: https://jordanchilcottmusic.com/

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Replied April 3, 2025 at 17:04 #3387827

davidbk1974
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I appreciate the responses. What I’m trying to do is just what I’ve always been able to do with Slate.

I guess I really want it for Kick/Snare/Hat more than anything.

I found a video on YouTube that seems to indicate that it’s possible and how to do it, but when I tried it I got the Kick to work but couldn’t do any additional tracks after that.

Trying to see if anyone here can help.

As for the mixing troubles, that’s just how I prefer to work.

All help appreciated.

Superior Drummer 3 version: 3.3.7
Operating system: Windows 11
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Replied April 3, 2025 at 17:32 #3387832

Bear-Faced Cow
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No issues with Route Instrument Microphones here. Was able to route the kick and snare OH’s to their own mix channels.

jord

Jordan L. Chilcott

Web Site: https://jordanchilcottmusic.com/

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Replied April 4, 2025 at 02:38 #3387960

davidbk1974
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This is what happens when I try it. I get the Kick drum set up correctly, then I try to do the exact same thing with the snare, but it makes the first track not work, saying “No Mics Routed”…

I’ve tried posting a screenshot, but my computer isn’t allowing it for some reason. It’s just a barrel of monkeys over here.

Superior Drummer 3 version: 3.3.7
Operating system: Windows 11
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Replied April 4, 2025 at 03:34 #3387971

drumjack52
Participant

davidbk1974 wrote:

This is what happens when I try it. I get the Kick drum set up correctly, then I try to do the exact same thing with the snare, but it makes the first track not work, saying “No Mics Routed”…

I’ve tried posting a screenshot, but my computer isn’t allowing it for some reason. It’s just a barrel of monkeys over here.

Superior Drummer 3 version: 3.3.7
Operating system: Windows 11

You’re having problems because you’re doing things all wrong. As I said before – even if you could get it to work the sound would not be right. There’s no real world recording engineer or mixer/producer that would try and do what you’re trying to do. They treat a kit as a whole instrument and not separate pieces. And unless you turn it all the way down the bleed will get in the way. You want the drums to sound as if they are in the same space as each other and your way won’t do that.

Jack
aka musicman691 on other forums
Superior Drummer 3.4.0
Area 33 1.0.0
Death and Darkness 1.0.1
PT 2021.6
OSX 10.13.6
3.46 GHz hex core 2012 MacPro 48 gig ram

Replied April 4, 2025 at 14:55 #3388096

Bear-Faced Cow
Participant

This is not about the real world.

This is what happens when I try it. I get the Kick drum set up correctly, then I try to do the exact same thing with the snare, but it makes the first track not work, saying “No Mics Routed”…

Like I said, I am unable to re-create your issue. I get both channels working. Please provide more detailed steps to recreate it. Don’t worry if it seems mundane. The more details the better. Perhaps I’ve missed something.

jord

Jordan L. Chilcott

Web Site: https://jordanchilcottmusic.com/

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Replied April 4, 2025 at 16:49 #3388273

davidbk1974
Participant

I was able to get it to work last night. And it sounds like I wanted…great!

Not sure what the issue was before. Something I was getting wrong in the routing. But proof of concept has been achieved.

Thanks, Jord, for the help.

Now I need to take on stacking with Slate sounds and inputting Slate MIDI. Aluta continua.

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Replied April 4, 2025 at 18:39 #3388378

Bear-Faced Cow
Participant

If your DAW supports stacking, you could place Superior Drummer on one track in the stack and Slate on the other and have them both controlled by a single MIDI track.

Alternatively you could try controlling Slate using the MIDI out feature of Superior Drummer.

jord

Jordan L. Chilcott

Web Site: https://jordanchilcottmusic.com/
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