Muting Previous takes while Tracking? Comping?

[tmaworks]

I forgot how to do this:

I'm tracking with 14 microphones on a drum kit -Doing multiple takes. I don't want to hear the previous takes beneath the one I'm working on -How do I silence the previous take? I forget, but a poster here mentioned a way to only "monitor current source", or something??

Hope I explained that clearly.

Allllso... If I later want to comp these takes, How would I go about doing that?? If I'm doing 3 takes with 14 microphones, that's going to be 42 tracks... er, uh, excuse me -Clips. 42 clips... So, the "comping" would be essentially taking 14 track sections and inserting those in place of the other 14 track section... see what I'm saying?? All the videos of loop mode I've seen have only been with one mic. So, yeah...

Thanks!

[Watchful]

Presuming you have 14 inputs active across 14 tracks, you will create 14 loops. Each take records a clip that is stacked.

To create a comp, you will have 14 stacked clips. You go through each clip, one at a time, choosing which note or notes you like best...just as you saw in the video. Then you repeat this for the other 13 tracks.

If you loop in short segments, you have that many more clips.

Be careful with so many mics. You likely will get quite a bit of bleed from the other mics, and selecting take 3 on track 4 might sound off if take 2 can be heard on track 6, for example. That's always a risk with drums, though. The snare or cymbals can readily get recorded across multiple mics.

If you're recording through a mixer, with one output, then all mics are mixed down to one input, so you would have only one track to comp.

[tmaworks]

Presuming you have 14 inputs active across 14 tracks, you will create 14 loops. Each take records a clip that is stacked.

To create a comp, you will have 14 stacked clips. You go through each clip, one at a time, choosing which note or notes you like best...just as you saw in the video. Then you repeat this for the other 13 tracks.

If you loop in short segments, you have that many more clips.

Be careful with so many mics. You likely will get quite a bit of bleed from the other mics, and selecting take 3 on track 4 might sound off if take 2 can be heard on track 6, for example. That's always a risk with drums, though. The snare or cymbals can readily get recorded across multiple mics.

If you're recording through a mixer, with one output, then all mics are mixed down to one input, so you would have only one track to comp.

Okay, I appreciate this.

If I'm recording in "loop" mode and I press "stop", will loop mode still be engaged or will it disengage?? I remember we chatted earlier about the usefulness of a pause button in this case...

-Reason I'm asking is because (as I think you already know) I'm recording some pretty long songs and sometimes I need a break in between them. That' why, if possible, I'd like to record the old fashion way (NOT in loop mode) and maybe just when I'm done with one take, i can just drag the clips to a new lane and mute those and carry on with the subsequent takes. Or, I think it was you, Watchful, who told me there was a way to only monitor the take I'm working on (while still stacking clips on the same track) so that I only hear that particular one in my headphones -and not the ones underneath...

Regarding the bleed: I'll be taking out chunks in 14 clip sections -along all the tracks up and down, if you can imagine that. SO, I shouldn't have to worry too much about bleed -If I were just taking the hihat from one batch of the 14 mic clips and then the snare from another batch of 14 mic clips, then i could see what you're concerns would be, but this way I don't foresee it being a problem...?

This stuff is hard to explain over the interwebs!! Ha!

Thanks for chiming in, Watchful.

Oh, and yes -The situation is 14 active inputs across 14 tracks...