My drum kit has 7 mics of its own. We don't actually (usually) use them all as individual tracks. We use the digital input's slots and record it all as a single track, setting up the levels with a sound check beforehand. We don't have to really fiddle with it much, we've done it quite often so we know which presets to use. This saves a ton of time. It just means I have to play perfectly every time, or possibly have to do the whole thing over again.
Yeah I figure if I ever get a drum mics set I would just record the drums and mix them down to one stereo track and add the rest of the sound afterwards
We don't normally mix it stereo, it's normally a single mono channel that we then duplicate and run in both channels. Then, we'll take those two channels and maybe adjust volumes and hit it with an EQ for each individual channel. That's how we get the different drumming in each channel, we just mix it that way after duplicating the single channel.
Normally... Sometimes we go all out, but we don't really need to do that every time.
Yeah drums pretty much sit in the center of the mix anyways. So a stereo track isn't really needed
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