Drum Room Mics

[Studdy]

Obviously no rules here but just curious on how / if people are using room mics when doing fairly heavy sample replacement. Are you using the room mics for ambience/sense of space even though the "actual kit" may be less the desirable. Or for purely hardware (cymbal) accenting? Or do most of you prefer "creating a room bus" from the samples and adding reverb. If you always using room mics when sample replacing do you prefer mono? I hope this question makes sense, because it doesn't look like it does. lol

Thanks Everyone!

 

[RedDog]

Yeah, totally. Makes it sound like a drumkit is being played, you know? Or if the whole track is shit, Send your samples off to a room verb, compress, bring back in. Will probably make the cut for most people's ears. I prefer stereo rooms, for the sense of depth. And you can always collapse to mono via automation if a section calls for it. Common practice is keeping the overheads and possibly room almost completely natural and replacing the direct hits.