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Howdy y'all,

My band is about to begin a most abitious attempt to record our next release in my jam room.

Equipment; Intel core 2 duo 1.8G with 2G ram running cubase le4, extra harddrive and two cport interfaces giving me 16 inputs. Behringer amp800 4 channel headphone amp. Two mixing desks, one newer small unit to handle condensers and my old fender sunn to do everything else. Legacy 30w studio monitors and yamaha 14"s for loud referencing. Samson C03 large diaphram condenser mic, For pencil condensers, 4 tom mounted drum mic's, one bass drum mic, six shure sm48's and one ashton sm58 copy. 7 boom mic stands.

The plan is to record raw tracks of each song using a metronome with a mic on the 2 guitar cabs, one on the bass, one on my kick and the C03 over the kit to pick it up and ambient vocals.

Next to track the drums I'll set up two condensers over head for left and right and the C03 in the centre. One tom mic on the snare rim and a sm48 underneath. three tom mics on my rack toms, two sm48's on the floor toms and a condenser on the hats and ride. I'm going for a tight sound so I'm making some partitions out of 7mm ply and carpet to mount around the set.

My hats are mounted in the middle of my set. Will a centered hat sound get in the way of my vocal tracks?

Next up, recording guitars, then bass though I'm not sure if micing or d.i. is the way to go with that.

Lastly I'll be fasioning a booth out of the partitions to record vocals in with the C03 on it's shock mount.

Then it's into the joys of mixing and mastering. I've read about a million different articles on all the stages though many don't offer much help on drum recording. so any advice on any of this would be greatly appreciated.