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thanks for all the advice. I definitely hear you about people trying to match world class recordings and not getting there in their home studio. I have definitely fallen into that trap before. I really just want a decent drum sound, not necessarily a Butch Vig drum mix. I play ambient / instrumental...

I used some of the techniques you guys suggested, and here's what I came up with: http://www.paleamberglow.com/mp3s/drums.wav I used the Rode NT5 condensers as "room" mics.. I put them in an X/Y pattern in front of and facing away from the drumkit, the height of the mics was a little bit l...

Thanks for the tips... do you "time-align" your room mic tracks with your close mic tracks?

i am going to attempt recording drums this week with a 3 mic setup - 2 Rode NT5 condensers set up as room mic's, and one audix d6 on the kick. I am trying to capture more of the sound of the room... Has anyone here tried a setup like this with good results? How far back did you place the room mics, ...

thanks a lot, very helpful.

I am running DP 5 and am a novice recording / mixing engineer. I am in the process of mixing my first real record (my music) and have been having a hell of a time getting the drums to sound how I want. I have been reading about parallel bussing the drums to create a much thicker sound, but I am not ...

nevermind... i found a better way to do this by just bussing the instruments to an audio track and recording them to that track.

i'm fairly new to dp and am having an issue when i try to bounce MOTU instrument tracks to disk. when i bounce, all i am getting is silence in the mixdown file. here's the situation: i have 5 Bassline tracks which sound perfect when I play the mix back in DP. I want to bounce all of these tracks dow...

i installed both,
i thought they were both necessary. which one should i delete? I am on a core 2 duo intel macbook, osx 10.4.9
thanks for the help!

maybe I can make this simpler by asking,

is v1.01 the latest firmware for the 828mkII ?

and

is the firmware a user-updateable thing?

Hi,
I'm just wondering if it's possible to update the firmware on the 828mkII ? when my unit boots up I see "v1.01" . I downloaded all the latest drivers from motu.com but i'm wondering if i need to update this too? If so, how do I do it? thanks!

the Adaptec Fireconnect 4300 uses the TI Chipset, as well.
It is what I use, I checked into it to make sure it uses TI after experiencing problems w/ my 828mkII

i have been experiencing high pitched noises and static sounds coming from my 828mkII in 2 situations. The first is when I exit one DAW program and enter another. This happens even when I am using the same sample rate in both programs. Even more peculiar is that the other situation when I hear these...

thanks for the info, really appreciate it. i didn't consider the hi-z input on the pedal. i'll try your suggestions. -david

anyone?