Hey sure,why not? It would have make sense.
Say I am a noob, what am I supposed to learn from your video?
I mean other than that Morgan lad from australia is recording his drums with budget microphones in his garage.
Maybe it would have been useful to dig deeper into the reasons why it's generally a bad idea to record acoustic drums in a small untreated space.
You know, how reflexions will affect your sound by creating all sorts adverse effects.
Not just saying "hey it's bad but I do it anyway".
Actually explaining why standing waves, early reflexions, acoustic resonances are the enemy.
How you should take the polar patern of your mics,their position, the place you chose to put the drum in into consideration to minimize those problems.
Why phase coherence is vital.
Why you'd choose an OH placement over another considering both the space you're recording in and the style of music.
What kind of stereo imaging you are going for... etc
Also the processing part makes no sense at all to me. If it's corrective processing, I think you should at least explain why you are doing it. If it's aesthetic, it needs a context.
I don't know. I'm not the one making a tutorial.
All I am saying is , if you are going to teach people how to do something, do it well.
Firstly, if I was to put all of that into a single video, it would be at least 30-40 minutes long. Every possible OH placement? Teaching people acoustics and reflections from scratch?
Secondly, I honestly don't KNOW enough about that kind of stuff.
Room acoustics? I have almost zero knowledge. I mix with headphones, so don't worry about room treatment in my mixing room. I'm working in a garage that is clearly occupied with other people's stuff, plus the tiny ceiling means I can't fit a 'room inside a room' to build something with good acoustics and sound insulation. So I haven't bothered with learning how acoustics work, because atm that's just not an option I have.
What I do know is that before I put the blankets up, no matter what I did with mic placement, everything sounded distant. Now it's a lot better. I got lucky. I didn't go into detail with this because I made a thread with sound clips less than a week ago.
OH placement? I haven't messed with the Recorderman because every sample I've heard has sounded weird and unbalanced. I've tried putting both mics together, pointing opposite directions, but the polar patterns weren't tight enough and it ended up being pretty much mono.
I don't know much about phase coherency. To be perfectly honest, I pretty much ignore phase all the time. Not a great practice, and something I should probably work on.
The processing was just to give people an idea of what to do to live drums, and drums in general. When I started off I compressed drums by like 15db or something crazy, and it sounded awful. When I moved to live drums I really struggled getting a good sound without introducing a lot of bleed.
The main point of this video was to show how I get my sounds. Quite a number of people here seem to like the sounds I get, from processing programmed drums, all-natural live drums, and the drum samples I posted. I'm showing HOW I get them, and proving that you can do it on a really tight budget, and in poor room conditions. If you're expecting a 'watch this video and you'll know EVERYTHING there is to know about recording drums ever', then clearly any video you watch is going to be a disappointment.
