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Date: 10-Dec-14 @ 11:24 AM Edit: 10-Dec-14 | 11:26 AM -
RE: Daisy Chaining USB sound cards?
Ok, i understand but it's a bad idea.
cheapest 24 mic input setup.
get two of these:
http://www.dancetech.com/item.cfm?threadid=3908&lang=0that gives you total 16 microphone inputs
attach them to one of these (using 2 adat cables - one for each rack unit):
http://www.thomann.de/gb/rme_digi_9652_hdsp.htm (PCI)
or
http://www.thomann.de/gb/rme_hdspe_raydat.htm (PCIe)
That is cheapest possible way to get 16 mic inputs.
or, choose any 8 microphone input audio-interface, and do NOT mic up all the kit! - You do not need to mic every drum.
Here is John Bonham (Led Zeppelin): only 5 microphones on the kit:
Only put mics on:
1. kick
2. snare
3. hi-hats
4. overhead left
5. overhead right
with this you can get excellent drum recordings
then you have 3 more mic' inputs:
6. bass
7. guitar
8. guitar-2 or vocal
Record your 8 tracks of backing, then add vocal, extra guitars, backing vocals, guitar solo etc afterwards as overdubs one by one:
This recording for example was done in a rehearsal studio using 8 mic input audio interface only:
http://www.7161.com/css_track.cfm?track__dt_track_id=12237it is the same for soul music or funk music etc, you can get a great sound with only 5 mics on the kit, this is how they did it in the old days, and still today top producers will sometimes only use a few mics on the kit
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