Multiple Microphones In MC6?

  Can I Use More Than One USB Microphone In MC6?? Because My Band Is Now Getting Together To Record And We Need Multiple Microphones For Our Drumset.

Is It Just Hard To Set Up? Is That What Your Saying? I Don't Have Money For A Mixer Right Now, Is The Quality Bad With USB Mics On The Software? I Have 2 Regular Microphones And 4 USB Microphones, But I Can't Use The Regular Cause I Don't Have A Mixer. When We Record Our Guitar's We Have A USB Mic Right On The Amp And It Works Fine. And When I Record For Vocals I Have A USB Mic On The Microphone Amp And It Sounds Fine. But Idk What Else To Do For Better Quality With No Mixer.

So With Sonar X1 Essential I Can Use Multiple Condenser Mics And/Or USB Mics? Cause If That's The Case I Will Buy It.

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So With Sonar X1 Essential I Can Use Multiple Condenser Mics And/Or USB Mics? Cause If That's The Case I Will Buy It.

You would also need an audio interface that supports more than 2 inputs and has phantom power. There are many of those available, but cost more money.
You can upgrade to X1 Essentials from MC 6.

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So With Sonar X1 Essential I Can Use Multiple Condenser Mics And/Or USB Mics? Cause If That's The Case I Will Buy It.

even with X1 you shouldn't be using multiple USB mics.  that will certainly cause you problems.  why spend money on more USB mics instead of spending it on a recording soundcard (with a USB one you don't need a mixer also) and real recording mics?
 
the problem with USB mics is that they have different clocks than your soundcard output and they have different clocks from each other.  so you will have sync problems and will not be able to get your tracks to line up correctly on long takes.

that a USB mic is not a good option for recording. 

A USB mike works well for a single performer using a single simple instrument (like a guitar).  MC6 used in this secnario and using MC6 to layer in additional tracks with either audio or MIDI works well and can provide solid results.  Even though I can run 10 inputs into my DAW I can only think of one time that I have actually used more than two.  There are some ways to 'Mickey Mouse' around the clock problem, depending on your equipment (interfaces and computers).  Trust the guys who posted above though in that you do not want to do this.
 
As soon as you decide to record acoustic drums your recording system requirements change significantly.  Your drummer suddenly requires four times more recording equipment than I have ever used at one time.  Doing the drums right calls for at least 8 microphones and input channels.  Sad, but true.  You may want to have your drummer shell out for the mikes and mixer (with a computer interface).  Alternatively, he could add triggering devices or change to electronic drums so that you can do the percussion without having to burn up so much audio equipment.  Regardless of how much engineeering improvision you go through, it an't gonna happen with a gaggle of USB mikes.
 
Regardless of what type of microphones/mixers you choose to use, MC6 will only allow you to record two at a time.  If you want to record the entire band it is time to step up to a more industrial strength product.  X1 Essential (with a multi-IO recording interface) is the starting point.
 
Glen

What's So Bad About A GOOD USB Mic?

There are actually two main answers here.  The first relates to bad and the other relates to good.
 
If we were to talk about 'good microphones' the first thing that you will find out is that there are junk microphones, consumer grade microphones, professional microphones, and studio equipment microphones.  The price of professional and studio microphones is commonly in the thousands of dollars.  Anyone puting out that kind of cash is going to use something better than a consumer grade pre amp and A/D converter so there aren't going to be any of these available in a USB version.  USB microphones are based on either cheap or consumer grade microphones.  Probably good enough for what you are looking for, but not professional grade equipment.  Thats why they are generally considered bad.  That's not to say that you can't record professional sound with consumer grade microphones, it is just not usually done that way.
 
The reason that they aren't considered very good is that they aren't very usable.  The USB protocol for audio and the sampling process used to encode the audio data need to be in relatively good synchronization when multiple sources are being recorded.  If there were some way to synch the clocks in USB microphones they might have a little better acceptance.  Professional A/D units provide for external clocking so that multiple microphones and instruments can be recorded simultaneously.  They also generally provide the ability to add and control other devices in the siginal path (like tube preamps for saturation).  With the USB microphone there is no flexability in how it is used in the signal chain.  You are just better off having a recording interface that is designed for audio recording and then deciding what microphone you want to plug into it.
 
A key problem with any computer sound equipment relates to dealing with latency.  When recording you are probably going to find that you have to monitor at the 'sound card' level instead of monitoring at the computer (for latency reasons).  With your microphone being the sound card you can only do zero latency monitoring at the microphone.  Makes it rather hard to hear what else is going on in the recording session.
 
It is a no-brainer to plug eight distinctly different types of microphones (some LD Cap, SD Cap and a few dynamics, each matching the type of drum/cymbal being recorded) into a recording mixer and feed the signal to a DAW.  You simply can not do this with USB microphones. 
 
Focus on using what you have to record what you can.  As you get a little further up on the learning curve you will learn the distinctions on your own.  You have what you have, so you should learn to use it.  Just be ready for the reality that this is not what you are going to want to have once you have a little more experience.  Not to speak for anyone else on this forum (but I might as well) if you are going to spend money seting up for recording, you will spend it again if you buy more single-purpose USB equipment.
 
Glen
 

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  That's Very Helpful. I Have Like 4 Regular Microphones That Plug Into My Amps, And I Can't Find Any Audio Interfaces That Has REGULAR Microphone Inputs For Like The Amps. And It Kinda Sucks Because We Are Recording And Then Sending Our Demo Straight To Rise Records, But The Only Problem We Have Is Our Drum Set Recording. I Just Need Information On Which Audio Interfaces To Choose For The Kind Of Microphones I Have.

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