[Stephen Banville]

Hi All,

Sorry to hijack this thread, but I too am interested in multi out to Pro Tools 12. I’ve routed all 16 microphones to PT using 16 audio tracks, some mono and some stereo such as Ambience and OH. I use input monitoring in PT to hear the drums and then when I’m finished I hit record on the audio tracks to commit the drum parts. I then have a kick, snare, hats, toms, ambience , and OH buses to add EQ, Comp, etc. I tend to track at low input levels -18 – 12db (Outboard gear and plugins seem to respond best at those levels) . If I set the SD3 levels for all 16 microphones at 0db, then the levels are way to hot for my liking and will not leave much for headroom for the final mix. So in the SD3 mixer for each channel i set the levels to keep my drums between -18 to -12. The output bus levels 1 – 32 are set to 0db.

Any ideas why the microphone levels are so hot? I suppose it may depend on the SDX I’m using. This example is for the Bob Rock SDX which IMO sounds incredible.
Also I’ve heard mixed comments about routing from SD3 to PT aux buses versus PT audio tracks. To my ears I can’t hear any audible difference. The only downfall is that I need to keep the tracks to input monitoring until I’m done with the drums, but that’s usually how I work anyway.

Steve

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