Yes you would hear the instruments but you would also hear click (they can adjust the level). It depends if you are all going to record in a live room or use iso booths but either way works the same. That last time I tracked we all played live and had the same click in our ears.

If you do this during tracking then the engineer can splice parts of various takes together for a finished product.

Manny

I cant play the drum part without the rest of the band, I dont think so anyway. I figured we would all just play as if we were in my buddies basement only with mics on everything. Starting to think we wont be able to pull this off.

You guys can all play at once. You dont have to use a click but I recommend it. If it's a decent studio you all can play in the live room. They might just have a drum shield around your kit to help with spill or sound bleed.

My advice is go to the drum show. That's what I would do. Those schools always need people to come in so they can get experience setting up the mics, getting the levels on the mics, eq'ing the instruments,

Etc. I am sure this would not be your only opportunity to do something like this. There going to have you hit each drum to set levels, then play a beat to check everything. Also, sometimes but not always,the drums may sound like crap in the drum booth but great in the control room. Most studios don't want you to tune anything because they usually have a sound all dialed in on the studio kit. I think the most important things to bring would be your foot pedal and seat.

Maybe your favorite snare. I think they would be open to that. If they want to record to a click, you have to tell them the tempo of the song so they can set the beats per minute / tempo. Or they can give you a click and the band can decide what speed sounds right for the tempo of the song. When you Start recording give the click a couple of measures and YOU count it off and all start together. I will use the audio click or have a cowbell sound for the click with a accent on the one. You will also hear the other instruments in your headphones, Or they may record you without a click or both ways. Just have fun. It will be a enjoyable and good experience . Hope this helps some.

Ya I was going to bring my kick pedal and seat with just in case I dont like the ones in the studio. I don't know if we would have the chance to do this again or not. This place is where our singers son is studying and we got the invite threw him. He will graduate this year and that door may be closed for good. Either way its a three hour drive one way so its not like we can do this just any time.

The worst part of missing the drum show is missing the people that I was looking forward to meeting, the show its self is pretty much the same every year with the exception of clinics, they do have new ones. But Im still working on a way to do both.

Having just done this here's my experience.

Go ahead of time and check out the "studio kit"!!!!!

I did not and had to $pend time (literally) fixing it up to make it sound proper.

Definitely bring a snare drum or two, your bass pedal, sticks, cymbals, cymbal felts, drum key(s)

Some studios are set up for individual tracking as opposed to en masse style. Might be a good idea to open up a dialogue with the studio and see what they have and how they're set up.

I might just bring my entire kit, sounds like they are flexible and will give us all the time we need. It would be cool record with my Zebrawood Luddys.

It probably goes without saying, but...make sure the tempo setting display is large enough to easily read and quick to adjust. The first one I got had such small lettering that I had to put on reading glasses and pick it up to change the tempo setting between songs. Worthless!

Go ahead and do the recording session. You'll have a ball and probably learn something.

Cabs...bring yr own footpedal...that's #1

cyms are 2nd..

Ok guys, Im starting to get the feel of it. I will take everything I can, kick pedal being #1.

I went out and bought a metronome today and just tried it out. I like it, it will sure improve timing and when I get to the studio I can at least know what they are talking about.

From what my singer has told us it sounded like we would be in different rooms for part of it. And this mixing board is one of 4 in existence, it came from the Captain and Tennille's studio, at least thats what he said,lol!

I am getting excited about this, we are not a good band and really dont deserve this but hey when opportunity knocks ya better answer.