Aggressive Drums: The Recording Guide (FaderWear Guides)

[Daunt]

I bought new wires (Pearl Ultra-Sound 20/C) to my snare. The old ones looked cheap. Not sure if the new ones sound better or not. What's your experience with different wires?

 

[Russtopher]

Let me also add in my kudos for the great guides. Excellent work, and a great resource!

re: click track creation - one thing I've found that works for drummers who tend to fight a click, is to program a quick drum track using something like Hydrogen. A lot of times they can track better to a programmed in-time beat then to a straight "beep beep beep".

 

[Daunt]

Check out Dauntless studio diary!

http://dauntlessdiary.blogspot.com/2008/09/drum-recording.html

I'm sure some of you will find new information, even if you have read the guide.

 

[The-Zeronaut]

awesome studio diary ^^
lol...hallway mic?? XD

 

[Jarkko Mattheiszen]

Awesome stuff, keep posting it!

Using a hallway mic is actually somewhat common.

 

[pifos_2]

Hey daunt isn't that SM57 high above the snare ?
Do you usually set it that high ?

I haven't used them myself, but I'm sure they are fine. I build my own snare baffle out of heavy cardboard and foam. Works great. Here's a photo of it.

 

[The-Zeronaut]

Awesome stuff, keep posting it!

Using a hallway mic is actually somewhat common.

first time i heard about that
Thanks for the info , dude!

 

[Daunt]

Hey daunt isn't that SM57 high above the snare ?
Do you usually set it that high ?

Is it really that high? I don't know why it looks so weird in that old photo. It's usually like this:

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_UXA4RtiqRNg/SODLh2RBmyI/AAAAAAAAAC0/OuslTENZt04/s1600-h/Picture-010.jpg

 

[symphonicmind]

Awesome guide! Especially, the parallel compression technique article! 5/5!

 

[EdSOE]

Awesome stuff...very good

 

[Daunt]

www.faderwear.com/guides/aggressivedrums/

Some of you might remember this guide. Well, it's been over four years since I wrote it. I have now started the process to write a full eBook on the topic. I want to make it as wide as possible - leaving no stone unturned!

www.drumrecguide.com

Some highlights:

- Drum ambience recording techniques
- Cymbal close micing
- Recording cymbals separately
- Phase & time-aligning
- Example setups: 8 ch, 12 ch and 20 ch (+1 ch, 2 ch and 4 for pre-production)
- Completely new images offering many different angles.

Please let me know if you have any ideas how to improve the guide! Thanks!

 

[AllanD]

I actually referred to this as I was buying new heads, using the G1/G2 combo and it sounds super slappy! Cool guide though.

 

[Daunt]

 

[Manicompression]

Very stoked on this, I love the faderwear guides.

 

[Sloan]

Cool, good trailer for an ebook.

 

[DanLights]

Awesome, I would blindly buy that ebook for sure! One thing though, I think you meant to say "Leaving no stone unturned"?

Killer trailer too, made we want to buy it NOW hahaha

 

[The-Zeronaut]

I'm definitely buying this !!

I would love some info on Spot mic cymbals and spaced pairs
Its the only part of the drum recording that i still struggle with :S

 

[Daunt]

Thanks guys! Check out the Facebook page if you want all latest information. I will post some cool stuff there regularly.

http://www.facebook.com/DrumRecGuide

One thing though, I think you meant to say "Leaving no stone unturned"?

LOL, thanks

 

[Fox Mulder]

It'd be great if you could talk about drum tuning techniques, the different approaches, the practice of tuning to certain pitches which can help very accurately know, for example, at what frequency a kick drum is peaking at. If it's D2 that'd be 73.42hz. Stuff like that.

And maybe a write up on why it's sometimes necessary to execute drum sampling.
I love sample replacing.

 

[ArthurD]

http://www.faderwear.com/guides/aggressivedrums/

Some of you might remember this guide. Well, it's been over four years since I wrote it. I have now started the process to write a full eBook on the topic. I want to make it as wide as possible - leaving no stone unturned!

Some highlights:

- Drum ambience recording techniques
- Cymbal close micing
- Recording cymbals separately
- Phase & time-aligning
- Example setups: 8 ch, 12 ch and 20 ch (+1 ch, 2 ch and 4 for pre-production)
- Completely new images offering many different angles.

Please let me know if you have any ideas how to improve the guide! Thanks!

Rock and Metal approaches.
Also, exploring mic positions to get different sounds would be great too.

Faderwear is awesome, I'm glad to hear a new ebook comming from a forum fella.