My first real drum recording, Please critique!

[Harley Barley]

Recorded to a metronome, but still sloppy playing this song is pretty hard and it was the first time my drummer had played it to a metronome. this is all one take.

need advice mainly on the overheads all the shells are triggered with slate trigger from mics (theres some bleed i didn't spend to long fixing every single hit)

is there anything you hear that sounds weird in the over heads? also just any sort of feedback will be great!!!

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/14412995/moosedrumdemo.mp3

 

[oroinvictus]

It sounds pretty good to me so far, though it definitely begs for some better playing/quantizing. OH's could possibly be compressed/EQ'ed a little more, but that's just me.

 

[docwright15]

quite impressive actually, the quality that is. The kick is awesome I think and the snare is pretty nice as well. Good job bro

 

[GarethSE]

I wanna hear what the REAL kick and snare sounded like.

 

[ParsonsMatt]

all the shells are triggered with slate trigger from mics (theres some bleed i didn't spend to long fixing every single hit)

This goes for real drums nowadays?

 

[GarethSE]

This goes for real drums nowadays?

Seems that way.

 

[dcb]

This goes for real drums nowadays?

HAHA.

 

[sk8a123]

what mics did you use for the OH's?

 

[Harley Barley]

This goes for real drums nowadays?

Sadly yes i mean i would love to have the money to buy brand new heads for each session, spend hours tuning, getting tones, trying different mic placings and stuff every time i record. But i do think its a lot more real than what ive been hearing lately with all this programmed stuff, don't get me wrong programmed drums sound good if you spend a long time on them for example the new Periphery album.. and when you see them live you cant even tell he wasn't playing that on the album.

but other than that all i hear from a lot of local bands these days is just crazy terrible unoriginal rhythms and naive people believe that there is a human actually playing so the band gets so much respect and real bands that are that good just get looked upon as if they aren't as talented because every hit doesn't sound like it was whacked with a sledge hammer. When did metal become about copying and pasting blast beats i always saw metal as some innovative and creative always ALWAYS trying to push the limits of what could be done in music. anyways at least my drummer is actually playing on here. i mean if you cant change the sound of acoustic drums you shouldn't be able to use synths keyboards or distortion i mean, they aren't acoustic by themselves?

 

[Harley Barley]

I wanna hear what the REAL kick and snare sounded like.

i literally just threw mics up randomly got levels was barely even listening to what was coming threw this was only just a practice for the drummer recording to a click with headphones etc. and for fun but if you wanna hear some real drums i recorded a while ago (not metal, indie rock? i guess) listen here i think it suits the song

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/14412995/Just Peggy.mp3

 

[Harley Barley]

what mics did you use for the OH's?

the two main over heads are Audio Technica Pro 37s i used a few spot mics C-1000 over the hit hat and crash (but its not in the mix) a 414 on the china took me a good 10 minutes to get it to sound like a crack instead of a huge WHOOOOOOOOOOOSSSSH. then i used this weird stereo mic a Sony ECM999 on the ride i really didnt like it. gonna use the c1000 on the ride next time. i really cant find it anywhere online just a few pictures here and there, my father does live sound so he uses that as over heads most of the time live.