Jan 20, 2008 01:36 pm how are you recording them? What kind/size of kit, what type of mics, what placement...
the trick for the kick and snare I have found to be compression...a lot of times anyway.
dRUM RECORDING
Posted on Jan 20, 2008 01:28 pm
xlakejunkiex
Ryan
Member Since: Dec 28, 2007
im still having trouble getting a decent drum recording. here are a few things that i picked out that are bothering me: can't get enough "thump" out of the kick, and the second is i need to get the drums to sound more "there" or have more presence. can anyone help
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Jan 20, 2008 01:36 pm how are you recording them? What kind/size of kit, what type of mics, what placement...
the trick for the kick and snare I have found to be compression...a lot of times anyway.
Jan 20, 2008 01:54 pm Audio Technica digital reference Pro 7 piece drum mics, but I am recording a kit with two crashes, ride, hi hats, kick, snare, and two toms with a mic on top of the snare, a condenser under the snare, a kick drum mic for the kick, and an mxl 991 for an overhead. i have tom mics but i only have one spot left in my mixer for inputs. one more question, how would i record the kick and snare into separate tracks? i am running them all through a behri UBB1002 MIXER the out the mixer through my lexicon lambda interface. i have a tubepre, but don't know how i could incorporate it into my drum micing.
Jan 20, 2008 02:13 pm In order to get separate tracks you need a sound card that has as many inputs as you have mics. With a drum kit you will probably want an 8 I/O interface.
Jan 20, 2008 03:20 pm i hAVE another question, how do i activate my lexicon lambda interface so i can can use mic input 1 and mic iput 2 at the same time? this will help alot with my problem does it have something to do with bus1 . i am lost and have no idea about any of these kind of thing, i've tried the manual but it didn't help
Jan 20, 2008 07:08 pm IF the Lambda has a software interface panel it should be easy to find in there. Also in the recording software it should state something like input 1 and 2 and input 3 and 4. 3 and 4 being the mic inputs I would imagine.
Jan 20, 2008 08:20 pm I'm not so sure I'd use a condensor under the snare. the rest of the kit will leak into it pretty bad and that'll make it more difficult to isolate it for treatment.
For the kick and snare, don't forget to gate both of them. get them each on their own track and put a gate on each that only they can open. Once their gated, it makes it a lot easier to treat them effectively with EQ and compression.
You'll want to set the compression attack so that the initial "crack" of them comes through before the compressor clamps them down.
Jan 27, 2008 11:06 am "In order to get separate tracks you need a sound card that has as many inputs as you have mic's"
I've got the same trouble with recording drums (and other stuff) with track separation.
I've got an analogue Behringer 1202 mixer.
I heard that it's possible to achieve track separation by using some kinda fire wire mixer, or possibly a digital one which uses only one output (the firewire or USB) which sends as multiple tracks..
Any one tell me about this please?
Sorry, Didn't want to start an annoying post on it and it seems relevant to the poster.
Jan 27, 2008 09:36 pm You need an audio interface that will do multiple inputs. Firewire, USB and the good old PCI interfaces can all do it depending on the interface. They are not the cheap ones though so be warned there that you will need to spend some money to achieve it.
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