how do u record drum on a 4 track i ca never figure it out.

Your question is a little general. Are you having trouble with miking or recording itself? It would also depend what type of four track you are using

Do you have drums and a four track? What ya got? Do you play drums or you just want to know how to layer drum parts together to make a drum track? Tell us about you.

alrite i have drums and a 4 track i have a tascam porta 02mkll cassette recorder. and tascam 424mklll cassette recorder. and how do u mike a drum seat.

soulsinger56 said:

why do you want to mike a drum seat? Unless you plan on adding another instrument then just stick the mike between your... um, nevermind. I've gone too far over a simple typo!

soulsinger56 said:

Its quite complex buisiness to do it right & would take a long while to explain fully without being able to show you but if you check out http://www.sospubs.co.uk/ & search for drum miking, it will explain all. hope this helps.

Can you bounce tracks with your 4 track??

I'm by no means a master engineer, even though I went to recording school and have been doing home projects for years, blah blah

what you need to do is mic the bass drum, the snare, and an overhead, and then bounce those 3 tracks onto a 4th track, freeing up the first 3 for guitar and whatever.

or get yourself some kind of mixer and mix however many mic inputs into one of your 4 tracks

I wouldn't worry terribly about sonic purity with a smaller tascam unit like that, just go for feel and have fun with it. I wasted a lot of years trying to get the right reverb, only to lose inspiration quickly and never actually record any songs. make it fun for yourself instead

let us know how it goes!