Part of Your Story - Day 2

Tracked drums today. Went well - long, but well. I just want to say a few things. First off, I love my girlfriend very, VERY, V-E-R-Y, much! She put up with a lot of drumming this afternoon and into the late evening. I ran through a mixer before I went tot eh firewire card only because I don't have an ADAT Lightpipe converter, thus, I have only two mic inputs. Worked good because I used a lot of condensers that needed phantom power. Here's the mic setup:

2 Shure SM94's as pverjeads
1 Shure Beta-52 on kick
1 Shure SM-57 on snare
1 Peavey PVM-480 on hats

Levels sounded okay unmixed. I will take a look tomorrow before I track bass. I think I have something usable for a demo. Drums will be tough because I am critical - period! I will also (next time I record drums), use two more 57's (one on each tom). Toms are present, but I feel I woul have ultimate control over the entire drum sound. Also, adding the mixer just added another set of levels to watch.

I plan to track bass tomorrow or Wednesday. Electric rhythm and lead by the end of the week, and then also synth/piano by next Monday. I will try to wrap up by Thursday or Friday...but, no promieses. If this was my full-time job, I should be fired....BUT, it's not, so cut me some slack. For fun, after this project is done...I am going to program a Reason drum track and see what that sounds like.

Anyways, wanted to post an update...hoepfully next go-around I will have my Behringer ADA-8000 (ADAT Lightpipe Converter - Analog to Digital)...drums will be much much easier - I hope!

Peace!