DIY Room Treatment When Tracking Drums

[Machinated]

Stumbled on these pictures a while ago, and am planning to track drums in my studio over easter as the studio I normally use is being completely re-done. I should be able to use the guys mic's which are pretty decent, but I'll have to track it in my place.

The room I'd use is a pretty decent size, but has had no treatment. I can easily get some mattresses and duvet's and blankets to hang over them too. Has anyone tracked drums like this, or have any advice in how I should set it up?

*Obviously the Meatloaf stuff is done in a good environment, but those towels are being hung there for a reason, right?

 

[JeffTD]

That first picture looks identical to the setup SYL and DTB use in the Armoury Studio, and they have some great stuff going on.


Shit, the Alien drums were tracked underneath one of those weekend soccer game tent things, the fully open ones, with mattresses on 3 sides.

 

[Radd]

*Obviously the Meatloaf stuff is done in a good environment, but those towels are being hung there for a reason, right?

Actually, the drummer sweats like a pig.

Bad joke, I know.
Those mattresses crack me up.
Whatever works.

 

[nwright]

off topic, but does anyone know what kind of mics are in the first picture - the horizontal OH's?

 

[LSD-Studio]

I even tracked drums ones in a HUUUGE room with about 250sqm and concrete floor. one wall was completely glass....
worst possible conditions, it still worked though...
(didn't need any snare-verb )....

those last pics look awesome!! LMFAO!!

 

[Igormeister]

off topic, but does anyone know what kind of mics are in the first picture - the horizontal OH's?

Looks like a pair of AKG C12

One in the middle is AKG C24, stereo version of a C12

 

[PhilR]

Our live room treatments are basically just mineral wool slabs fixed to the walls and covered in coloured fabric tailored to look kinda decorative. They work pretty well. The room used to suffer horrible flutter problems but it sounds good now, everything sits together well.

 

[Kevin Kitchel]

I use mineral wool gobos and broadband absorbers too. The reason there are blankets on the gobos is because the top half of each one is reflective glass. This is not the type of setup I would use, but it is pretty typical of a "modern" sound.

 

[Sloan]

i find that a lazer lightshow makes everything sound GREAT.

 

[JoshSylosis]

all i wana know is where do you get tape that says 'drum line do not cross'?

 

[TheDude]

all i wana know is where do you get tape that says 'drum line do not cross'?

+1

 

[Jaymz]

Which band is that with the scaffolds treatment?

 

[dreamcatcher]

all i wana know is where do you get tape that says 'drum line do not cross'?

Promark makes some

 

[Machinated]

The top pictures are a Meat Loaf album tracking. The bottom ones are Children of Bodom tracking Hatecrew Deathroll, I think.

 

[HeadCrusher]

The bottom ones are Children of Bodom tracking Hatecrew Deathroll, I think.

Not sure which album but definitelly cob.

 

[Kevin Kitchel]

CoB isn't a band that pops into my mind when I think of great drum sounds.

 

[egan.]

CoB isn't a band that pops into my mind when I think of great drum sounds.

They also don't strike me as a band that would need to do something that ghetto. I dunno, maybe it sounds great but it looks like something I would do b/c someone wanted to make a record for $300.

 

[grimace]

In the radio station I work at, the big bosses decided they wanted to buy new everything, so among the shit they threw out was a lot of cubicle panels of assorted sizes.

Of course, they're not nice stand alone panels, just massive sandwiches of what I gather is cloth, wood, and what I think is drywall.

Anyone else have experience using cubicle walls?