Artifical room sound via 2nd recording

[Morgan C]

I just tried creating an artifical room sound, as I don't have/want to use more samples, and my drums are programmed and were sounding like it. So I sent the mix out thru some speakers in my garage, and then recorded that with a SM57 to pick up the 'room' sound. Did it twice (one speaker, left then right, then hardpanned the recordings).

Worked 'alright', although not as well as I liked. I wanted a really trashy sound (hence the garage) but I got a noisy (bad speakers) and thin, almost phasey sound. However, it DOES sound a lot more realistic, so if I can amend these problems I may do it for all the drums on the EP.

Will upload samples in a second, but if anyone has info that would help that'd be great.

edit:
http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/324723/Artificial Room.mp3
Dry tracks -> Dry with mixed 'room' -> Room with no effects -> Dry tracks with reverb

Sorry for the bad quality mp3, forgot to change settings and I've deleted the .wav already. Should be good enough for this though.

 

[ahjteam]

Try to blend in the reverb with the room sound. Snare in particular usually always likes some plate reverb in addition to the room sound. And I suggest you just use mono room ambience, and if possible, try use (a large diaghpram) condenser mic, because that SM57 seems to give you a lot of hiss.