Drum routing for Addictive Drums 2 - your opinions

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2017/06/24 15:46:17 (permalink)

Drum routing for Addictive Drums 2 - your opinions

Just curious how you route your drums. I am using AD 2 and have it set up as close to a real kit set up as possible - you know, like you get bleed through from the kick drum on the snare, the overheads catch everything - trying to keep it close to a real mic'ed kit.
I set it up so each drum has it own track. Then on the track outputs I choose the drum bus. And I do stuff like set up sends for the kick and snare to a bus for parallel compression, a send on the snare to plate reverb bus, and even send the other shell drums to a shell reverb bus.
I will then choose the bus outputs to the drum bus (which goes to the master). (I don't use the drum bus that is on the AD 2 interface).
I have seen people set the overheads tracks to their own bus and the room tracks outputs to their own bus before as well.
Just curious what you do for your drum routing.
Everyone on the forums have been nothing but helpful - even to the point where you guys have given me volumes of info - and I have used a lot of that info to help craft a more professional sounding mix. Still not on par with some of you, but for a dude recording his music in his bedroom the mixes are getting better and better.
Anyway - what is your take on drum routing, and the why and the how part would be appreciated.

Thanks guys!

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    35mm
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    Re: Drum routing for Addictive Drums 2 - your opinions 2017/06/24 16:39:49 (permalink)
    Personally, I mostly just use the master stereo out on sampled drum instruments. I do any tweaking within the plugin. I only use traditional kit style routeing if there is a specific reason to do so. My reasoning is that a lot of these instruments have very usable drum mixes already and their internal mixers are very usable. So just working with essentially one drum bus saves a lot of time and faffing about and allows me to concentrate on the music. That's the great thing about these plugins as opposed to recording a real kit. I have recorded real kits many times and of course, that does require working with individual drum tracks and buses. So with the plugins I like to keep things as simple as possible and only route individual drums and buses if I need to - and then the exact routeing I use will depend on what I need to achieve.

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    Re: Drum routing for Addictive Drums 2 - your opinions 2017/06/24 20:37:11 (permalink)
    I used to do the individual outs and the "live kit" type of assignments for individual processing, but have lately found the internal mixing processing within AD2 is pretty damn good...hence I've become pretty quick at navigating it and now leave it as a stereo out.
     
    That said, in the past ( and every once in a while): Kick, snare to their own, as well of OH's, often letting the rest reside withing AD2.
     
    Drum plugin processing has come a long way, so I take advantage of that capability and keep it simple.

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    Re: Drum routing for Addictive Drums 2 - your opinions 2017/06/24 21:18:14 (permalink)
    I always have used the stereo out of Superior Drummer, AD, and BFD. I have never had any situation come along for those programs that I could not solve with the internal features. Of course, recording real kits calls for some fancy footwork mixing-wise but if you set up a nice template to begin with it can save you a great deal of time.

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    Re: Drum routing for Addictive Drums 2 - your opinions 2017/06/26 00:30:37 (permalink)
    It would have been nice if the cymbals were routed to their own separate outs, but otherwise it's pretty darn good.
    post edited by Jesse G - 2017/06/26 03:21:20

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    Re: Drum routing for Addictive Drums 2 - your opinions 2017/07/03 15:27:34 (permalink)
    Thanks everyone - I appreciate the feedback and advice.
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    Re: Drum routing for Addictive Drums 2 - your opinions 2017/07/03 15:58:41 (permalink)
    If you use separate outs, you will want to route them to a drum buss to easily control the volume.

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