Tracking Drums

Jun 29, 2008 19:46

There's no dirty, sweaty feeling quite like how you feel after a day spent tracking drums in a practice room for the majority of a full-length album. We got drums for 8 songs tracked and that means 3 more to do Tuesday night. I totally got a pretty good drum sound using 3 mics - one kick, one snare, and one overhead ( Read more... )

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livenolies June 30 2008, 03:27:57 UTC
Nice! Please continue to post as much recording-geek detail as possible. :)

What kind of mics are you using? My preference these days for drums is the Shure "Beta Green" series (with 1 or 2 exceptions at time, for texture). They're discontued, but tracking them down on eBay has proven well worth the time.

-nolan

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The Magnificent 3-Mic Drum Setup radiocuredmc June 30 2008, 22:33:35 UTC
We had a newly purchased Shure Beta 52a on the kick drum, a tried and true SM57 on the Snare, and an AKG Condenser on the one overhead. We're using an M-Box, so you're probably wondering how I got three mics into a 2-input interface. I ran the kick and snare through our PA, (mixed them against each other, and ran one main line out) into my Alesis 3630 Compressor (with just a little compression, 4:1, and light gating) and then into the M-Box. The overhead went straight into the M-Box for both ambient room sound and for the cymbals and toms. The overhead was about 4 feet over the kit pointed directly at the center of the snare. Surprisingly, it picked up everything well and the high-hats and ride were at perfect post-mix levels without having to do anything at all ( ... )

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Re: The Magnificent 3-Mic Drum Setup livenolies July 1 2008, 05:17:33 UTC
Nice! Thanks for the details!

When you do the bass parts (you may already know this)...it may be worth your time to go into PT and nudge the "mic" track forward a hair. It will (technically) be about a half a millisecond behind the "DI" track, which may or may not cause phase issues. Your mileage may vary. :)

-n

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