Hi guys,
I'm having some problems with recording drums, so i hope you guys can give me some tips or alternatives to fix this!
So i'm recording our first demo; progressive death/thrash.
We started recording drums with an electronic drum kit (midi) with the alesis DM5 drum module.
Problem 1: The bassdrum pad isn't big enough to use double bass.
Problem 2: Not every note gets triggered right with fast drum rolls.
So we just tried to record it at a slow tempo (120 bpm / original 200 bpm) to make sure every note is triggered right, and it's midi, so you can play with the tempo just as much as you want. But no, playing songs so slowly, when you're used of playing them at 200 bp, that doesn't work. You have to be a walking metronome to do that.
We could mic his real acoustic kit, but then we'll be recording in a room that hasn't got any acoustic treatment, and we don't have good drum mic's, préamps, gates etc to do that.
If we would do it like that we can off course use a program like drumagog to resample every hit. But won't that give the same problems as with the alesis dm5 module? Will every note get triggerd right? He's doing some very crazy and fast drumrolls, so...
The best thing i can think of is to hire a 'high-end' electronic drumkit, will that make a big difference?
Anyway, share your thoughts on this one!
Best regards!
I'm having some problems with recording drums, so i hope you guys can give me some tips or alternatives to fix this!
So i'm recording our first demo; progressive death/thrash.
We started recording drums with an electronic drum kit (midi) with the alesis DM5 drum module.
Problem 1: The bassdrum pad isn't big enough to use double bass.
Problem 2: Not every note gets triggered right with fast drum rolls.
So we just tried to record it at a slow tempo (120 bpm / original 200 bpm) to make sure every note is triggered right, and it's midi, so you can play with the tempo just as much as you want. But no, playing songs so slowly, when you're used of playing them at 200 bp, that doesn't work. You have to be a walking metronome to do that.
We could mic his real acoustic kit, but then we'll be recording in a room that hasn't got any acoustic treatment, and we don't have good drum mic's, préamps, gates etc to do that.
If we would do it like that we can off course use a program like drumagog to resample every hit. But won't that give the same problems as with the alesis dm5 module? Will every note get triggerd right? He's doing some very crazy and fast drumrolls, so...
The best thing i can think of is to hire a 'high-end' electronic drumkit, will that make a big difference?
Anyway, share your thoughts on this one!
Best regards!