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pop/rock>”premiere rock” preset

OK, here’s the file (if I did it right).

I want to route the:

kick to 1/2

snare to 3/4

hihat to 5/6

toms to 7/8

cymbals to 9/10

all those room mics/whatever to 11/12

All is pretty good as I route stuff until I get to the toms.  They sound like cardboard boxes after I route them (to 7/8).  Played around for hours with the settings in SD3.  There is obviously something basic that I just don’t understand.  I have no clue where to route the “ambience” and “comp” channels to preserve the sound of the toms (and/or whatever).  Is there a way to just get rid of those channels, perhaps with a set that doesn’t use them (and what would the name of that set be?Test

) so I don’t have to jack with those channels I don’t understand?  This is way harder than it should be.  I’ll control any “ambience” which I assume is “reverb” and “comp” via Cubase if needed.

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Thx.  Have to unload the trailer.  Will be a few hours.

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I have some time to mess with this today.  I’ll look at it again, take some good notes, etc.  I could send you a Cubase file.  Don’t know how to save a SD “project” tho.  I’ve only used SD as a plug in.  I’ll let you know today what happens.

Thanks,

Andy

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Henrick,

 

Thanks for the quick reply.  I’m hoping to have this figured out by a gig on Saturday so any help is appreciated.

Re:  Effects.  I’m just trying to use one of the drum sets “as is”.  Pop/Rock Premier Rock.  I’m looking at it now and now I can’t find any of those “gain” channels that I saw before.  If I had added any effects channels it would have been by accident.  I see some of the mic and output channels have comp, EQ and such on them – but I didn’t do any of that.

I know I’m not crazy, I saw those “gain” channels and that’s where the trouble begins.  Where to route them or whatever.  Had SD2 and never ran into this before splitting up output channels.

I don’t have time to jack with it before I’m going to use it tonight.  Do you know why I can’t find the “gain” channels now?  I have “show all channels” selected.  Or, is there some drum set I can select where I don’t have to mess with any of those gain channels?  I don’t care to be tweaking drum effects, reverb, EQ, adding busses, parallel compression, etc.  Seems like toontrack has done enough of that already.  Just looking for the simplest and fastest method to map each instrument to a track in Cubase and have it sound right.

thanks again for the reply.

 

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