Jordan

The other odd thing I've noticed is that if I solo one of the drum tracks (for example, the kick), it won't clip by itself. But then if I unmute the snare and hi-hat, the kick starts clipping again. The individual drum tracks (not the drum bus) all seem to get quieter when the other tracks are muted and get louder with each track that gets unmuted. Are the tracks supposed to interact like this?

They're virtual instrument tracks, so I think both? MIDI is definitely being recorded as that's what's displayed in the track (see attached), but I'm not sure if it's recording audio too or if EZDrummer simply plays the recorded MIDI events. I also suspected it might be a double output issue exactly like you describe, but I'm not sure how I would go about identifying that as the cause.

My bad, I worded that last part poorly. Right after recording, the other tracks sounds like they're all about the same volume or louder than the drums, but the drum tracks are the only ones that clip. If I lower the drum track levels with the master fader in EZDrummer to stop the clipping, the drums end up being too quiet. The other (guitar/synth) tracks stay at a listenable volume, but don't clip. I hadn't done any gain staging at the time I made my initial post, but I did try reducing the input gain on each individual drum track to put the peaks between -6 and -12dB in the loudest part of the song. This caused the same problem of making the drums too quiet.

I'm very new to home recording and I'm trying to record some drum tracks with an e-drum kit (Simmons Titan 70) + EZDrummer 3 via an interface (PreSonus Studio24c). When I'm recording the drums, it sounds great (maybe a little quiet) and there's no clipping on any of the tracks. But then when I play back what I just recorded (immediately with no adjustments made anywhere), suddenly nearly every drum track is clipping. I can avoid the clipping by lowering the master fader in EZDrummer by a lot (~18dB), but this makes it barely audible in the mix. Other tracks I've recorded/programmed (temp guitars, some synths that came with Cakewalk) are much louder but don't clip. Any ideas how to fix this?