Creating a Room Mic trck when there is none...

[MEGA DAVE]

SO, I was just thinking... I love using the room mic sound and was wondering if there is a way in programming drums to achieve this? My thought would be to maybe slap a good room verb on the drum bus and make it mostly verb signal then export that as a track?

Anyone ever achieved this with good results? Am I on with my thinking or is there a better way to do this?

 

[Lasse Lammert]

I sometimes just play the drums through the monitors in my live room and mic the room.

 

[MEGA DAVE]

great idea! thanks! =D

 

[006]

Another trick is sending your drum bus to an aux with a nice verb plug and make it like 70-100% wet and set it up like a room sound, blend it back in.

 

[MEGA DAVE]

I'm gonna do an A/B mix between both of these ideas and post samples so everyone can hear the difference, also if there are any more ideas keep em coming!

 

[muckypup1]

I just render my dry drum track, and a drum track thats covered with reverb and add the reverb track in afterwards.

 

[006]

I just render my dry drum track, and a drum track thats covered with reverb and add the reverb track in afterwards.

Same diff to my method

 

[MEGA DAVE]

also essentially what i said in the OP... lol

 

[The StabbinCabin]

If you have time, sample your kit with a room mic and then blend the samples.

I posted the same question in a thread literally like a week ago

 

[arv_foh]

The acousticas m7 impulses have a bunch of different room reverb IRs--I dig Studio A out of the bunch.

 

[Ionei]

I send it to a verb.
Works fairly well indeed.

 

[Lasse Lammert]

I'm gonna do an A/B mix between both of these ideas and post samples so everyone can hear the difference, also if there are any more ideas keep em coming!

looking forward to hearing that

 

[cent73]

I have this nicely miked room recording and when I need to make a fake room ITB I listen to that track and try to match it with a reverb, actually a bunch of reverbs because I feel a single one won't make it. Watch out not to overdo it tho'.

So there may be like 3 moderately set effects with source signal way low on some setting or even completely wet. Then I mixdown it and import as a new track like others said before.

And one more thing, the reverbs need to have their treble EQ'd out since in nature events further from you sound like that. On the other hand you don't want this boomy sound to overcome the drums so you really need to experiment in the mix - compressing the track is a must.