ok this is the story with this. i was setting up mics in the room next to mine. i am producing and recording the band. i have two firepods daisy chained and its my first time recording another band aside from my own and my own little mini mixes so it was a challenge and a welcomed one at that. i was using like 13 channels or so for drums. this was literally the first time and i was only using the first firepod as the second one wasnt set up at the time and i had the drummer just play so i could get a feel. from the way this recording sounded i completely changed all the mics around. this recording did NOT have a bottom snare mic, and two md421 on toms. it is only a hi hat (nt5), 2 OH in front of kit, a blue 8 ball ( it sucks but i have one from a long time ago ) as a room mic behind the head of the guy, a ksm 44 back in the room a d6 on kick and a 57 on snare top.
i had the "tape" running so to speak so i can hear from my room what it sounded like and i was home tonight screwing around with logic and i thought it would be cool to try to salvage a non optimal drum recording where i just had the guy play a rock beat with bad micing (its been fixed since) and i figured it throw some apple loops on top and work on my mixing skills...
please critique. and i did this on my mac book pro at home so it was mixed on my hd 280 headphones and keep in mind ive never done stuff with horns and a full kit before. the way i have it set up i have like 14 tracks or so and ive repositioned the mics from this orignal "getting sounds" recording test.
http://www.sneapforum.celtiaproductions.co.uk/Aramism/hornsandelidrums.mp3
on edit: oh also there is a bit of a story with the kick drum. the original kick drum he used before i made him change it to a much better one was so awful that it sounded like someone knocking on the door. it sounded so damn bad in raw form that i had to really do serious eq work on all the other mics especially room mics which i had to turn down in mix not to hear the plastic THUD. it sounded great in the drum itself via the d6 so i tried to emphasize that. unfortunately i lost a lot of the good charateristics around the 500k mark and below from all the other mics like girth in snare and even toms and cymbals. it bummed me out but i feel like i can get better salvaging crap and bad drums by honing my ear abilities before im spoiled enough to work with perfectly tuned drums and better rooms and such. i hope theres some truth to this. if anyone wants i can post total raw tracks of drums. there is like 5 minutes of playing i just couldnt think of any more loops to put and frankly i just did the loops for fun i wouldnt take too much timewith everything. but seriously id like to see how a more seasoned guy here can salvage this mix so if your intrested lemme know. ps - i thought about drumagog or aptrigga but the kick sounded good by itself it sounded awful in the room.
i had the "tape" running so to speak so i can hear from my room what it sounded like and i was home tonight screwing around with logic and i thought it would be cool to try to salvage a non optimal drum recording where i just had the guy play a rock beat with bad micing (its been fixed since) and i figured it throw some apple loops on top and work on my mixing skills...
please critique. and i did this on my mac book pro at home so it was mixed on my hd 280 headphones and keep in mind ive never done stuff with horns and a full kit before. the way i have it set up i have like 14 tracks or so and ive repositioned the mics from this orignal "getting sounds" recording test.
http://www.sneapforum.celtiaproductions.co.uk/Aramism/hornsandelidrums.mp3
on edit: oh also there is a bit of a story with the kick drum. the original kick drum he used before i made him change it to a much better one was so awful that it sounded like someone knocking on the door. it sounded so damn bad in raw form that i had to really do serious eq work on all the other mics especially room mics which i had to turn down in mix not to hear the plastic THUD. it sounded great in the drum itself via the d6 so i tried to emphasize that. unfortunately i lost a lot of the good charateristics around the 500k mark and below from all the other mics like girth in snare and even toms and cymbals. it bummed me out but i feel like i can get better salvaging crap and bad drums by honing my ear abilities before im spoiled enough to work with perfectly tuned drums and better rooms and such. i hope theres some truth to this. if anyone wants i can post total raw tracks of drums. there is like 5 minutes of playing i just couldnt think of any more loops to put and frankly i just did the loops for fun i wouldnt take too much timewith everything. but seriously id like to see how a more seasoned guy here can salvage this mix so if your intrested lemme know. ps - i thought about drumagog or aptrigga but the kick sounded good by itself it sounded awful in the room.
