I picked up one of these because it ticked a lot of my check marks.
- Live Sound with ability to record said performance without a computer
- Project Studio recording with the ability to bounce to Ableton easily
- Enough tracks to make a good drum recording. I only have four mics now but will add more as I get comfortable. I used to record drum tracks for people through ProTools 10 years ago when I was playing lots of music.
- Ability to Skype while playing along to prerecorded tracks for the purpose of lessons and constructing/demonstrating drum parts.
- Easy method for getting good sound in video.
First impressions - It's nice enough. The feel of the faders and buttons are what you should expect from a relatively inexpensive unit given all of the features so they lack that nice solid feel of higher end equipment.
Currently I'm Working On: (Updated 6/29/19)
- PC Audio routes to Model 24 Channels 1 and 2. This would work better if it played out of combined channels 19/20 so I'm seeing if I can route this differently. If I can do this I can eliminate the physical cable from aux/monitor out to the PC/Skype.
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Features Successfully Implemented:
Skype where I send all signals (5 mics, ipod, computer/skype) to my in ear monitors and send everything but the PC to the end Skyper. USB connection sends computer to channels 1 and 2 so I route all signals except channels 1 and 2 to Aux/Monitor with a physical cable to the PC's Mic Input and then choose that microphone in Skype.
Tracking directly to Ableton through the Model 24 as preamps - I have Model 24 sending individual channels to my PC and am able to track individually in Ableton Live and send the monitor mix to my in ears which are plugged in to the Model 24. Push 2 also is sending the midi mix to the master out (which was surprisingly difficult to finally get to work).
Video - I made a drum cover video shown below. I sent the Mixer signal to the PC via USB and recorded live with OBS with a little compression and reverb on the sound output and it was pretty good. No post recording editing/mixing was done.
Equipment List:
- Drum Mics - 3 SM57's (1 snare, 2 overheads) Beta 52A on the kick
- Vocal Mic - AKG C520 Headphone Mic
- Westone UM Pro 20 In Ear Monitors
- Windows 10, I5 processor, 16gb of ram
- Ableton Live equipped with a Push 2
- GoPro Hero3 recording directly through OBS Studio (freeware)
- Tascam Model 24 (of course)
- Live Sound with ability to record said performance without a computer
- Project Studio recording with the ability to bounce to Ableton easily
- Enough tracks to make a good drum recording. I only have four mics now but will add more as I get comfortable. I used to record drum tracks for people through ProTools 10 years ago when I was playing lots of music.
- Ability to Skype while playing along to prerecorded tracks for the purpose of lessons and constructing/demonstrating drum parts.
- Easy method for getting good sound in video.
First impressions - It's nice enough. The feel of the faders and buttons are what you should expect from a relatively inexpensive unit given all of the features so they lack that nice solid feel of higher end equipment.
Currently I'm Working On: (Updated 6/29/19)
- PC Audio routes to Model 24 Channels 1 and 2. This would work better if it played out of combined channels 19/20 so I'm seeing if I can route this differently. If I can do this I can eliminate the physical cable from aux/monitor out to the PC/Skype.
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Features Successfully Implemented:
Skype where I send all signals (5 mics, ipod, computer/skype) to my in ear monitors and send everything but the PC to the end Skyper. USB connection sends computer to channels 1 and 2 so I route all signals except channels 1 and 2 to Aux/Monitor with a physical cable to the PC's Mic Input and then choose that microphone in Skype.
Tracking directly to Ableton through the Model 24 as preamps - I have Model 24 sending individual channels to my PC and am able to track individually in Ableton Live and send the monitor mix to my in ears which are plugged in to the Model 24. Push 2 also is sending the midi mix to the master out (which was surprisingly difficult to finally get to work).
Video - I made a drum cover video shown below. I sent the Mixer signal to the PC via USB and recorded live with OBS with a little compression and reverb on the sound output and it was pretty good. No post recording editing/mixing was done.
Equipment List:
- Drum Mics - 3 SM57's (1 snare, 2 overheads) Beta 52A on the kick
- Vocal Mic - AKG C520 Headphone Mic
- Westone UM Pro 20 In Ear Monitors
- Windows 10, I5 processor, 16gb of ram
- Ableton Live equipped with a Push 2
- GoPro Hero3 recording directly through OBS Studio (freeware)
- Tascam Model 24 (of course)
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