No direct crash channel in Strike

[DC-Choppah]

I love Strike. But sometime it perplexes me.

I am working with a strike setup and am bus recording the drums to ProTools tracks.

But the crash cymbal (in the Strike mix window) does not have a slider for direct mic. It has overhead and room, but no direct. That means nothing comes out of the channel (channel 8) that I have set the crash cymbals too in the Strike Mix window.

Am I missing something or is there no 'direct mic' of the crash cymbal in Strike? It only goes out through the overheads and room mic?

But then why do I get to have an output for the crash channel in Strike? When I record it (I have it set to channel 8) nothing comes out of channel 8.

[elicious]

yup, same here,
and what's worse, for me,
is once you zero out the strike faders to zero,
to mix within PT,
those settings aren't recalled
even when saved as a strike mix…
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[DC-Choppah]

I like to' hide and make inactive' the Strike track after bus recording it to take the whole thing out of play.

I guess to get a pure crash cymbal track we will have to do a second pass with the bus record, but mute everything in Strike except the crash and just bus record the overhead mics.

[unkJE]

Turn the Yellow Light on (to route the Overheads)

[DC-Choppah]

Hey man thanks for that.

I am trying to wrap my brain around that. Haven't tried it yet.

So does that mean that everything that comes through the overheads will now go out of channel 11? Or just the crash events?

[unkJE]

Sorry - 4.18am here:

The Yellow Button takes the Crash out of the OH and Room mics... leaving recordable Crash on its own separate Channel.

(Snare and Kick still recordable on OH and Room mics).




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