Share ways to record a massively miked drum

Maybe it would be easier, since it's such a large kit, to make a track template with all the tracks within a folder?

Then you just drag and drop the track template into the project and have everything setup for recording. Once you've recorded and feel you need more takes, you just name this folder "take one" and then just drag and drop a new fresh track template into the project and start to record the next take in there?

By doing this you can easily listen to the different takes just by muting/unmuting the entire track folders.

Since there are so many track the hard drive may have trouble reading all the tracks fast enough after a while too.. Another nice thing with having all takes in different folders is that you very quickly can archive whole takes. By doing this the hard drive won't try and play these tracks wich will make it much easier on the drive.

After the session is done you can just drag and drop another track template into the project and listen trough the different takes and put the once you like in this new "final take"-track template and then finally archive and hide the tracks you don't want to see in the project any more.

With this method you'll get lots of tracks, yes. But you'll get a much better overview.. And since you're using track folders, you can easily fold/solo/archive/mute each take.

i do use track folder and template and it is indeed helping a lot.
 
Was wandering how other people were managing a setup like this one.
Cakewalk last take on drum was nice but it delt with the end result of the takes.
to me it did not sound like it was recorded using Sonar.
 
thx for the help Loptec
 
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We just use SONAR simply as a big tape recorder. Nothing is sequenced, no tempo changes are built in. All mics/inputs are tracked at once. So, that's why it works for me to just wander into the next take from the previous take.   You would probably benefit from some kind of real take management where the take number was on a widget at the top of the page and track lanes not part of that take got filtered and/or auto-muted everywhere when you selected the take number. Some day ...