How big is your drum room?

[Loren Littlejohn]

I don't care if you track drums in your living room, give me the dimensions of the space you can utilize for tracking drums.

Do you wish it was more/larger? Is it easy for you to setup mics in this space?

If you have odd dimensions then the lengths of each wall please?

 

[vespiz]

L 8,5m x W 4,4m x H 2,8m or about so. I wish it was even a meter wider, but I can make the room work.
Just this last weekend I had a 5-piece acoustic band in there, drumset and all.

 

[brianhood]

My drum room (in feet) is W27xL33xH12. It's a pretty basic rectangle shape except the ceiling is slightly vaulted.
I'm pretty happy with the size, and the mic'ing is easy for the room. I do wish i had a bit more sound treatment in there though.

 

[Seizure.]

 

[AllanD]

Depends on the band I'm recording, but it's usually a garage or empty bedroom. I wish the bedroom was bigger, I wish the garage didn't have concrete floor.

 

[Loren Littlejohn]

So I'm going out on a limb here and guessing your drum rooms are also you live rooms? 27'X14'X9' and 33'X27'X12" are pretty big spaces.

I'm moving in a little over a month with more space to spare, but I currently track drums in a 13'X11'X8" size room!.

 

[brianhood]

yeah that's my live room. I use to track in a much smaller space, and it wasuke:

 

[tempe]

5.6 x 3.5 x 3.2, its rectangular and the dry walls are lined with 2 panels of rockwool. Diffusion I have to bring in with me though since I'm renting the space. There's curtains on each wall except for the one with the window that I can move around to change how live it is. Haven't found a use for anything but having them all down though as since I can't treat the roof I have cymbal problems as is.

 

[Loren Littlejohn]

yeah that's my live room. I use to track in a much smaller space, and it wasuke:

God damn I can't wait to get out of this tiny fucking apartment. My control room is 12'X11' and it fucking BLOWS.

 

[DeclanWhite]

like.. 3m x 5m haha

 

[Loren Littlejohn]

like.. 3m x 5m haha

awesome. Your more in the realm of what I'm in with a room 9'X16' large.

Although the length sounds like it would be ok, your width seems like a tight squeeze though.

 

[Lasse Lammert]

Small rooms don't suck in general, it's just MUCH more difficult to get control over room modes etc, cause they tend to be higher and more in the audible range.

I find myself to track drums in the iso booth more often than in the live room these days, but that small iso room is perfectly designed to eliminate room modes and have an even RT60....of course you won't get much room sound from such a room, but in return you'll get more control over the dry sounds.

so in general a small room doesn't HAVE to be bad, it's just harder (and more expensive) to make it sound suitable for drums than a big room, what I sometimes do when I want extreme control AND roomsound is I track in the iso room and then "re-Room" the drums...meaning I play them through the speakers in the live room and mic that room....
you can either leave everything to sound as natural as possible (cymbals very loud, no EC etc) when you're doing that to get a very realistic room sound, or you tweak your drums first and then "re-room", that way you get a room verb that you can raise higher in the mix without making it sound too trashy

 

[jipchen]

Small rooms don't suck in general, it's just MUCH more difficult to get control over room modes etc, cause they tend to be higher and more in the audible range.

I find myself to track drums in the iso booth more often than in the live room these days, but that small iso room is perfectly designed to eliminate room modes and have an even RT60....of course you won't get much room sound from such a room, but in return you'll get more control over the dry sounds.

so in general a small room doesn't HAVE to be bad, it's just harder (and more expensive) to make it sound suitable for drums than a big room, what I sometimes do when I want extreme control AND roomsound is I track in the iso room and then "re-Room" the drums...meaning I play them through the speakers in the live room and mic that room....
you can either leave everything to sound as natural as possible (cymbals very loud, no EC etc) when you're doing that to get a very realistic room sound, or you tweak your drums first and then "re-room", that way you get a room verb that you can raise higher in the mix without making it sound too trashy

Lasse, how big is your iso booth?

And +1, a heavily (and correctly) treated small room is basically like a big room, for example a treated ceiling / clouds make the room seem a lot higher than it actually is, same for all other walls.

My liveroom will be only 3 x 3,65 meters I still bet my ass it will sound great because Mika (the studio-designer/acoustician who also designed my controlroom - it sounds ridiculously good) knows his job. The room will have the whole ceiling covered with up to 40cm deep absorbers, and all walls will also be treated heavily - yet there will be a lot of diffusors so the sound isn't too dead. We will see how it goes

 

[Fredrik-Ablaze]

our liveroom is about 10*6 meters and has a slanted ceiling; 3.5 meters at the highest point and approx 2.1 meters at the lowest
done some reflection treatment to it in the corners to avoid standing waves and stuff but besides that we've kept it as "live" as possible. sounds killer

 

[GeertSamuel]

My new drum room is 4.8 x 4 meter, 4.4 x 3.3 after treatment. Small, but will work, what I previously had was even smaller. Ceiling is slanted going from 2.2meter to 2.8 meter. Can't wait to finish the new room.

Old room was 4.5 x 3 x 2.1.

 

[006]

I think it's like 13'x14' or something. Not very big. I have lots of treatment on the walls to basically kill a lot of the room's natural sound, then use better room impulses as a "room" mic track. "Room" is a weird fucking word when you use it repetitively.

 

[Lasse Lammert]

"Room" is a weird fucking word when you use it repetitively.

especially when you're stoned

 

[greyskull]

This is why i rent a place just to record drums these day