Feb 07, 2005 05:52 pm Tune and lube the drums! sounds like you have enough gear to get a good sound....check into small diaphragm condensor mikes for overheads.
How should I go about recording drums in my "studio"?
Posted on Feb 07, 2005 05:24 pm
Mutebassmsm
Member Since: Feb 07, 2005
I have recently set up a make shift recording studio, but am not sure how to best record my drums with the limited equiptment I own. Presently I have a DIGI002 rack, a kick mic, 3 tom mics, and about 4 other misc. mics which could be preamped with various equiptment. What should I do to produce the best possible sound without spending more than $200 more on equiptment?
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Feb 07, 2005 05:52 pm Tune and lube the drums! sounds like you have enough gear to get a good sound....check into small diaphragm condensor mikes for overheads.
Feb 07, 2005 06:55 pm What WYD said! The only other qualification is the number of inputs you have to use. If you dont have enough for a full setup, you may have to use some kind of out board mixer to "pre-mix" the drums down to 2 tracks.
Feb 07, 2005 07:02 pm what are you recording into? How many inputs do you have to work with ? I've recorded drum quite a bit and have experimented with, mics,trigers all sorts of combinations . It would help you to have atleast 4 inputs (4 seperate tracks to record at once) , ubt it you have more that's great, if you have less , we can work with that.
Feb 08, 2005 06:55 am The 002 has eight mic ins i believe, so you'll be golden for inputs. Personally i tend to start with a basic four mics: Kick, 2 OHs, Snare (usually under, but that's taste and style dependent, i record more jazz-orientated drummers, so micing from the bottom gives me the detail and ghosting while the OHs pick up the harder hits), then have a listen with just those, sometimes you need to add a floor tom mic if the OHs (generally small diaphragm condensers) are bright or you're a lighter player, i'd go for a 57 or something similar, same if the other tom(s) aren't quite present enough. Another nice thing to throw in is a large diaphragm condenser with an omni pattern, placed ahead of the kit in a fair sized room, maybe six-ten feet out, to capture some of the room sound. The more mics you use though, the more phase issues you'll potentially have, which is one of the many things i don't have time to go into in full right now, so do a search here or google for details. Most of all, record and listen, don't worry about getting the drums for this or that tune down, just set up some mics, record, listen back and makes notes of what you like and what you don't and adjust, add, subtract mics. There are a million ways to record most things so play around and see what you like. Good luck, have fun.
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