Very Small Room for Drums

[Dom Ostarig]

Hey guy...I have very small room now... could i rec some good drums in there??? What may be a problem??? It will work??


I'm hope the transposing to feet is right.




Thank you dudes

 

[ChrisTanakaCanwell]

The old loft that I had my studio in was about that size, but the ceiling was slightly lower and it was a few feet longer and I was always happy with my drum sounds.

 

[visceral]

I record in slightly larger room with shorter ceilings. I get great results using the "recorderman" method for my overheads....although I modify it slightly to get a little more stereo separation. I blend some close mics and have fun mixing!

 

[lolzgreg]

Deaden the ceiling completely. Keep the floor reflective. Deaden one wall completely-the opposite wall should be live. Diffuse one wall completely-the opposite wall should be live.

 

[Trevoire520]

Should be fine as long as you get some acoustic treatment in. Watch out as your room's depth and height are pretty close, so they'll be reinforcing and canceling out similar frequencies.

 

[Dom Ostarig]

Thank you guys!!! And about depth and height be pretty close, what should i do?

 

[noiZefloor]

I've got a room of this size for drums aswell. My one is full of diffusers, but I'm still not able to get good results with my room mic. So, what I use to is, I mic up my drumkit as usual (OH, Kick, Sn, Toms etc.) and I place one mic (I use a ECM8000 for it) about 2 meters in front of the drumkit. I also use a micscreen on that on to reduce the reflection of the room a bit. Later I put a convulsion reverb with an impule of a good sounding recording room on it (Altiverb got a awesome library for that application). Mix to Wet, cut at 100Hz and 8-9KHz and compress it like hell. Use a really fast compressor like a 1176 or a distressor with shortest attack and release times.

 

[Trevoire520]

There's not alot you can do really, you could figure out the frequencies that they're going to be fucking with and build some helmholtz resonators tuned to those frequencies to help deal with them, but I don't know how difficult that would be.

Easiest solution is probably to go crazy with bass trapping, the general consensus seems to be that it's very hard to over do bass trapping in small rooms.

 

[monolithsound]

Easiest solution is probably to go crazy with bass trapping, the general consensus seems to be that it's very hard to over do bass trapping in small rooms.

The room that I do drums in is tiny like this too. I have bass traps on every corner and wall, the ceiling completely dead, with a cloud over the drumset and the hardwood floor live and reflective. Bass traps are your best bet.

Any ambience that you're gonna get from a room that small isn't useful. I'd much rather have a dead, controlled room that I can put some good room sound into in the mix.