What is the best way for the best result ???

[John Theodorou]

I am a great fan of  TOONTRACK products. I use EZ Mix and SD3 and PT 2018.

My question is this:

What is the best way for the best sound effect of SD3 ???? Sending it to audio channel directly or through multiple auxillary tracks ????

I ask this question because it’s true I spend a lot of time on the SD3 mixerto get closer to a sound.

Thanks

Superior Drummer 3 version: 3.1.4
Operating system: Windows 10

• This post was modified 5 years, 11 months ago by John Theodorou.

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[mickg]

If I understand your question correctly I think you may be looking for the best way to achieve the ideal sound. I think if you are just laying down a stereo drum track then however you get there is fine. However if you are playing an ekit in a live situation and need to have give your sound engineer more control over levels & fx, then direct your individual drums to different physical outputs to send to an outboard mixer. I’m new to SD3 but I believe you can have separate ambiance channels for each drum (not sure exactly how to do it), then group the ambiance channel with your drum mic and output that to its own set of physical outputs. The only drawback to that is only the number of outputs on your audio interface and the number of outputs addressed by SD3.

It sounds a bit complicated and probably is but going back to my first statement which is, if it sounds good and you only need to track you drums to a stereo mix, then go with whatever works. Also, remember if you are sequencing and laying down tracks, you can record each drum one at time to isolate each drum so as to not get ambiance bleed from other drums sharing the ambiance channels.

I hope this helps give you some ideas.

mick

Superior Drummer 3 version: 3.1.4
Operating system: macOS Mojave (10.14)

[John Theodorou]

Thanks for your time my friend. I dont use ekit. I use it only for home recording or as a replacement tool for natural drums.

[Brooks H]

John, best is relative, so I have to give you the dreaded answer, it depends.

One of the main reasons folks use aux tracks is to group and effect kit pieces/mics together. For example, you may want to send all the snare mics to an aux and effect them together. Or you may want to send all your toms to an aux and effect them. Or the entire kit.

Another popular reason is to control the volume of kit pieces/mics together. Similar to above, snare mics as a group, etc.

It may be worth a look through some of the provided presets, taking note how Toontrack’s engineers utilized the aux channels.

SD3 v3.3.6, EZbass v1.1.7, EZkeys v1.3.4
Studio One v5.5.2, Cubase v12.0.60
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