[zboyle]

Thanks Bryan, Brad & John for weighing in to give me more options.  I explored a few before determining what was most suitable for me.  For future reference (and “postmortem” analysis) — here’s what I did:

First routed the mixer channels to the out bus.  Each stereo mic channel routed to an output; mono mic channels I panned hard L / hard R and routed them in pairs to an output channel.  After that, I ran the “Bounce Output Channels” export, faders on the output mixer left untouched.  Dragged the wavs into my DAW and split the paired mono tracks back into regular mono.

With no fader adjustment in the DAW, the mix sounds VERY close to the internal SD3 mix (if not the same).

I tried rendering in the DAW, which seemed like it would work fine, but the process felt a little convoluted.  Also I was getting some glitching sounds during the render, which probably was nothing, but it was enough to exasperate me.  John’s method seemed pretty useful for simplifying a bounce (hearkening back to the tape days, which I always enjoyed), but I didn’t use it just because I didn’t want to bounce via combining mics.

For anyone who’s curious: the origin of this situation was layers of stacking — a great preset from a “small room” SDX (1 kit) + the ambient mics from another “big room” SDX (2 kits).  As you can expect, things got complex with the mic routing and the bleed adjustment submenus.  Seemed like it would be much more expedient to do 2 individual exports, one for each SDX, and then dump everything into the DAW so I could have everything in a nice neat row of faders for mixing / submixing.

Anyways, I now have exactly that, and it sounds beautiful.  Thanks again for everyone’s help!

[zboyle]

If you’re still happy with Indiependent in 2022, I’m glad to hear that!  Thanks for weighing in…

To go deeper with my question — has Toontrack has noticeably *improved* their SDX recordings since Indiependent was released?  For example, browsing the forums (thegearpage.net, etc), over the past few years of posts I see some occasional complaints that “TT doesn’t get cymbals right”.  But with the most recent SDX, maybe they’ve worked out better methods?

Also, Indiependent lacks the extra articulations that now seem to be standard included SDX.  Fields of Rock 26 different hi-hat articulations, 8 ride, etc.  Indiependent doesn’t have off-center snare, just center and rimshot.  Do you find the extra articulations to be unnecessary?

If I owned the newer SDX, I could do an A/B comparison and answer this question myself…. but hopefully more experienced folks can give me their opinion first…

 

 

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