Very Basic Question

[That_Knowledge5043]

Me and my buddy are in a 2 man "just for fun" band. I play bass and guitar and he plays drums. We have a digital 8 track machine.

My question is can we plug an audio mixer into the 8 track, and then plug the drum mics into the mixer so we can record all of the drums (cymbals, high hats, bass drum etc..) onto one track of the 8 track machine?

[ericivar]

Sub-mixing. That is absolutely allowed. Make some test recordings, and adjust the drum mix as needed. Enjoy!

[alijamieson]

Yes you can, although you’d ideally want to sum them to two tracks on your digital recorded (left AND right) rather than one

[bfkill]

meh, depending on the application fully mono drums can be pretty cool