Having fun with my e-kit.

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doggyd69b

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I have been having a blast playing with the Roland TD-27 (and a TD-11 plus lots of extra pads) The two module's outputs are connected to a Behringer mixer, The laptop (my audio source) is connected to the aux in in the TD-27, my headphones are coming out of the Behringer mixer to a splitter, one end of the splitter goes to my headphones, the other one goes to an old GoPro 2 camera for audio reference. The audio (drums + music track) gets recorded on both the camera and in the TD-27.
Then I transfer the video from the GoPro and the audio from the TD-27 into my computer, edit all using Davinci Resolve 18 (free), after lining everything up, I remove the audio from the GoPro video (usually sounds kind of bad), I leave only the video track and the TD-27 audio track, render, and that's it.



Do you record your covers? if so, how do you do it?
 
I've just started to record myself and my e-drums (and nothing ready to share yet). I'm using a Yamaha DTK430 e-kit.
Music - an old phone plays a drumless track (from the internet) into the e-kit module using a 1/8" stereo input.
Drums - I play the e-kit.
Recording - The e-kit output is a 1/4" stereo jack, so I use a splitter and then 1/4"-1/8" reducer. One side goes to my headphones and the other to the audio input of my Sony Mirrorless camera. The camera is way, way overkill for video, but it's what I have. Had to turn the microphone volume down to about 7 on a 1-50 scale. I presume the audio quality is not great, but should be good enough.

I was unsuccessful with new or older phones to do either audio-only or video-audio, primarily since I could not find a way to get the phone to accept the line in audio (despite some good advice from folks here). I'll keep practicing and post some stuff here soon.
 
MazdaRex said:
I've just started to record myself and my e-drums (and nothing ready to share yet). I'm using a Yamaha DTK430 e-kit.
Music - an old phone plays a drumless track (from the internet) into the e-kit module using a 1/8" stereo input.
Drums - I play the e-kit.
Recording - The e-kit output is a 1/4" stereo jack, so I use a splitter and then 1/4"-1/8" reducer. One side goes to my headphones and the other to the audio input of my Sony Mirrorless camera. The camera is way, way overkill for video, but it's what I have. Had to turn the microphone volume down to about 7 on a 1-50 scale. I presume the audio quality is not great, but should be good enough.

I was unsuccessful with new or older phones to do either audio-only or video-audio, primarily since I could not find a way to get the phone to accept the line in audio (despite some good advice from folks here). I'll keep practicing and post some stuff here soon.
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I suggest you try the zoom camera, it has an audio input and it is fairly affordable: https://www.amazon.com/Zoom-Q2n-4K-...qid=1688506898&sprefix=zoom+ca,aps,549&sr=8-3
I will try to grab one soon, for now just messing around with what I have.
I am too lazy to do multi camera angles and more than one take so, some mistakes were made but that's ok, I'm not perfect.
 
I use a pretty simple set up for doing covers.

Kit is an Alesis Command Mesh outfit. My ipad feeds the tracks into my module. The output for the module goes into a little interface called an iRig. Looks like this…
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The iRig is also available with stereo inputs, but the mono one is fine for my purposes.

Video and audio is captured using my iPhone. No need for a mixer or any other outboard gear. The little iRig unit kind of does all that processing automatically.

 
Will that work with playing along to not purchased tracks on Apple music, as I only have a monthly subscription and i know that Yamahas rec n share need purchased tunes…
 
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Birdy said:
Will that work with playing along to not purchased tracks on Apple music, as I only have a monthly subscription and i know that Yamahas rec n store need purchased tunes…
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Any module with aux in (incl. Yamahas) can have any music source, since you're just sending audio from the headphone-out. Whatever you could hear in your wired headphones attached to your phone (tablet, PC, mp3 player, FM radio, electronic trombone..) will instead go into the module.
 
Doraemon said:
Any module with aux in (incl. Yamahas) can have any music source, since you're just sending audio from the headphone-out. Whatever you could hear in your wired headphones attached to your phone (tablet, PC, mp3 player, FM radio, electronic trombone..) will instead go into the module.
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I was going to say just that, but I figured it would be common sense that the Aux input will take ANY source regardless of where it comes from (there are no DRM restrictions for analog sources)
 
Doraemon said:
Any module with aux in (incl. Yamahas) can have any music source, since you're just sending audio from the headphone-out. Whatever you could hear in your wired headphones attached to your phone (tablet, PC, mp3 player, FM radio, electronic trombone..) will instead go into the module.
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I know the sound will go in as i play along to Apple music, but would it record through the Irig Pro as I only subscribe monthly and haven’t purchased any individual tracks…this is the issue with the Yamaha rec n share app.
 
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Birdy said:
I know the sound will go in as i play along to Apple music, but would it record through the Irig Pro as I only subscribe monthly and haven’t purchased any individual tracks…this is the issue with the Yamaha rec n store app.
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I believe that as long as there is audio coming in, the Irig will allow you to record it. If not, just find the track in YouTube and use that.
 
Anyone using subscribed, not purchased, Apple Music as a source to record? Before I press the button to buy one….
 
Birdy said:
I know the sound will go in as i play along to Apple music, but would it record through the Irig Pro as I only subscribe monthly and haven’t purchased any individual tracks…this is the issue with the Yamaha rec n store app.
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Audio is analog, it's just electric buzz in a wire, it doesn't carry any information about what song you play or from where and who paid for it.
 
That’s what I thought with Yamahas rec n share app, but there is a block on tracks not purchased as in my subscription playlist. Is this the same with the Irig- anyone actually record Irig with subscription rather than purchased tracks?
 
I think the problem here is that if you are using an app, said app can(may be able to ) check for DRM (digital rights management) basically if you own the track or not. sometimes even if you own it (paid for it) DRM will prevent you from copying it, which is why you can't record that.
Not sure that is the case but it does sound like it. (with the Yamaha app).

The Irig on the other hand just gets an analog input which as discussed before, it does not contain any info other than the audio so it doesn't care if the track is paid for or not. Once inside the Irig, the signal gets converted from analog to digital to be used by the computer.
 
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Great, so it’ll record video and audio my playing along on to my iPhone/iPad straight from my subscribed playlist? This is what I’m after.
 
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