[sean7]

That guitar tone is nice. So you are just running your guitar straight into EZMIX 2 with a preset? How much extra have you done to get the tone, if anything?

I’ve thought about getting EZMIX2 for guitars, but just can’t get myself to pull the trigger. You’ve convinced me a little more with this though.

[sean7]

Great stuff. Makes me want to lay back with a cold beer. At times I could see myself standing with my beer and moving a bit too.

Seriously though, the word “cool” comes to mind for this one. And “beer”.

Made me think of a Steve Vai song called Frank for some reason. It doesn’t really sound that much like it really, just the vibe I got made me think of it.

[sean7]

I don’t have any midi cables and output to different tracks just fine. I use Reaper and when I select the EZDrummer vst it automatically asks me if I want to add 8 extra tracks. Then when in the EZD mixing screen it says track 1 (just under the fader/volume control) on every track, I just click on where it says track one and it gives me the option of 8 different tracks. I simply select the track I want and put whatever effects I want on that track. I don’t own Cubase though, so maybe it’s very different. I assume you could just add extra tracks if it doesn’t automatically put them there for you.

[sean7]

I had a similar problem. What I did find though, was that if I turned up the velocity knob to 60 (I think, I’m at work now, I’ll double check), then I could hear the snares on all of the grooves/fills. I haven’t tried adjusting them using Reaper’s midi editing function, though I will need to on some older tracks. I find the biggest problems to be on blast beats. Honestly, once the drums were inserted into the mix, I literally could not hear the snare at all. It was just all kicks. On one particular blast beat, adjusting just by one (59-60) went from inaudible to machine gun like. I’m still not quite sold on the Metalheads kit. I actually went back to DFH for some of my latest recordings. I like the sound of the Metalheads kit, but it’s very temperamental compared to the other EZXs I have.

I’m probably not the best judge though, as I only just learnt how to route the drums to different channels after owning EZdrummer for over a year. It’s time for me to start reading manuals. The kits sound awesome with some extra polish added. I thought you had to mix all the drums together in EZD and needed SD to route out. My idiocy knows no bounds.

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