Hi Folks,

I have just purchased a sweet set of Roland TD6's and they are quite possibly the most amazing things I have ever seen! I am infatuated with them....anyway....My predicament is this:

I have friends who will be joining me over christmas who I used to play in a band with. We are all very excited about playing again after 5 years and want things to be just right. Due to my recent purchase the prospect of playing in one of our houses instead of a studio becomes feasable but I have a few questions and queries.

I want to be able to play all instruments on the quite because I live in a semi-detached house, in order to do this I want us all to be able to wear headphones and hear a good mix of all the instruments. I have seen some mixers for around £65 with 4 inputs - would this allow me to do what I need i.e. voice, guitar, bass, drums and for us all to hear it?

Also I want to record what we do. I have a midi input on my PC's soundcard, can I put it all through that and record it in Cubase or something?

Thanks in advance

You can record MIDI devices via the MIDI input into cubase. The TD-6 is a drum module for an electronic kit, right? All the other instruments/vocals will need analog inputs. So if you just need one track for each (guitar, bass, vox), that should work. You may need a headphone amp to get everyone headphone mixes. Then just use aux sends for each headphone mix. Sounds like fun.

Thanks for that uncle_jerr. I understand Midi now, I didn't realise that it was more to do with the triggers on the drums not the actual sound coming from them....as for the analogue inputs for voice, guitar and bass we will be using an Edirol 101 that goes via firewire in to my PC and then use Cubase to mix around with each layer.

Should be fun, if we get anything decent recorded then I'll post it up here.

Hi Guys,

Just to let you know the recording went really well, Big thanks to uncle_jerr your advice was very useful. We bought a headphone amp and used everything through the edirol, not one amp in site!

The recording we got was not the best but by no means the worst we could so. i stupidly put the bitrate to 48kbps which is the lowest option, I will remedy this next time which should increase clarity.

please find the recording here:


www.myspace.com/utopiafromredcar

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